The N900 is affordable for any real developer, and is usable as well for an everyday usage. Stop whining, start developing. I've paid mine 200 euros, and it was 8 months ago.
Le 22 juil. 2010 à 19:34, Randolph Dohm a écrit : > Hello > i want a new mobile phone and did therefore a research for the > hardware and operating systems. > IPhone is too expensive and scanning all the environment for wlans. > Android it totally google tracking, but very popular at the moment > with the samsung galaxy i9000 > samsung as well has the Wave phone out with their operating system bada. > Symbian is referred to the old monochrome phones, maybe new symbian3 > is for smartphones ideal. > Windows phone 7 will come out soon and might be a competitor for meego. > Android is really too tracking and though very popular as said, so > winphone7 and android will be the competitors of meego, > > My point is, that the n8 will be released too late, so that the meego > n8 is too late to be a competitor for winphone7 and the android > phones. nearly every second new phone has android.. what a mess! > > Will there be an update firmware button to switch n8-00 symbian to > n8-01 meego online? or does nokia try to sell the product twice? > Bada offers 3 Million dollars for the developers of bada-apps, and the > start thread claim, that the meego developers need a cheap hardware to > develop for nokia is still true!!!! > > Now we know: n-series and n8 will be the first phones in 2011. ok, > time is late, but better quality than quick and dirty, but then we > need NOW a phone sold only to developers. Yes, the n900 can be used, > but who will pay 500 euro for it? As the n8 is the one for the > release, I want to request once more with this mail a cheaper n900 > BETA for developers only with a meego developer beta pre-installed on > it. That could be offered over amazon or a nokia shop page. > > The n900 with meego developer beta should cost 250 euro. Such a fat > clunky phone is not usable for every day usage in the jeans pocket. So > allow developers to get it and involve all compilers to bring their > software on it, then it is a success. > Meego on n8 in 03/2010 is really a year to late, as bada is there, > win7phone will come out soon and android is already in every second > phone. > > Third, we need to switch the installers from rpm to deb, Debian and > ubuntu is a really great community, which will bring all ubuntu apps > on meego. No one is familiar with rpm formats. > > So the community needs > a) TIME: an early involvement, so this summer > b) HARDWARE: a cheap nokia n900 for 250 euro as a developer version > with meego beta on it in August > c) COMMUNTIY: .deb as installers > d) a Qt 4.7 release with a meego compatible compiler. > > So that are the needs. > How should Nokia manage that? Why is the Symbian updated and meego > parallel developed? Can developers from the symbian team join the > meego team to speed up meego? There are many Qt and c++ coder at > nokia, not involved in meego. > Please transfer the people to meego. There need not to be a price for > the best app, but a subscription price for developers for the n900 > developer meego beta. Please find a way to send one to every developer > offering a meego/qt app, maybe after a registering process to offer a > qt app to build it on meego. Send them the phones for free. Like > google summer of code, not every student has success, to have an app > ready in the end, but many developers would want to take a n900 to > develop for nokia their qt app for meego. > Qt 4,7 should auto-create DEB-Packages as Installer Files. Then the > community will be involved. > > and fifth, intel needs to develop an MeegoPad. So that meego on this > kind of netbook is a competitor of the Ipad. > > The N8-01 - or at least the N8-00 with firmware update button, needs > to be present before chrsitmas 2010, and the same for the MeegoPad. > > Sixth: The N8 needs wlan Tethering, so that the meegoPads can join the > wlan with any N8 in the room. > Is Tethering in the N8 given like in the Samsung android Galaxy i9000 ? > > Any comments? > > rd _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
