next smartphone thoughts

[Udi Finkelstein]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Michael Vasiliev <mycroft at yandex.ru> wrote:

> On 08/26/2011 02:10 PM, Erez D wrote:
>


> > 5. meego (N9) - though about it, but once bitten from nokia - twice
> > shy. nokia does not even say they expect to continue with meego
> Not on the market yet.^W^W^W^W^WJust announced, ergo buggy. NO KEYBOARD.
> Say you've bricked your phone or locked it down. How are you going to
> bring it back without a keyboard? Personally, I don't like either wiping
>
I don't see how having or not having a keyboard has anything to do with
being able to revive a bricked unit.
The SheevaPlug has no keyboard, yet it's mini-USB connection that can drive
a JTAG chain to reprogram the internal flash regardless of the unit state.

off fingerprints or when a on-screen keyboard obscures the most of,
> already scarce, available surface. So, it's an option, as long as the
> company would like to open its chest of secrets. However, I would
> strongly consider the silently announced "brother phone" N950 instead if
> I were you.

The N950 is not available for sale.
There were 250 units available on a long-term loan to qualified developers,
and then 100 more were made available on the same requirements via maemo.orgor
meego.org or something like that.
You just can't buy it.
And even if you could, it's software would probably be in a worse state than
the N900's.

Personally, I have an N900 and I don't see anything that can replace it at
the moment.
I just hope that eventually we would see Meego on someone's phone.
If it would break down I would look for a 2nd hand one.

Udi
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