The Maemo-MeeGo Family
We live for the N9
Here’s a cute little family posted by MeeGo Experts. The Maemo Family. The N950 can be included in that due to the Harmattan (Maemo 6) heritage.
All of these then can be considered as the Pre-Step 5 of the Maemo Journey, culminating in the missing family member – the one that’s not jut for geeks but for the mass market.
Were you ever lucky enough to play with any of these?
I have a N800 Internet Tablet myself. That was a revelation to use the internet on a 4.13″ 800X480 screen back in 2007 when everything else was QVGA and NON touch!
The N900 of course has a place in a lot of Nokia fans hearts. To this day it is still a blinder of a phone, so fantastic, it is a testament to the BRILLIANCE of the Maemo 5 team. And whilst N900 did not sell much, it was an INCREDIBLE phone. It sales has no bearing on the sheer awesomeness of MicroB and that desktop class multitasking. Man, imagine if they weren’t seduced to the Intel-MeeGo thing. We’d certainly have N9 Maemo 6 by last year already. We’d already have our Step 5 of 5. Oh well. Thanks to that some how taking so long, we’re now on the extremely polarising direction of Windows Phone. Perhas it had to be. Do you think Nokia would have ever come up with something as cool as Swipe? (Remember the early Nokia MeeGo UI was canned and redesigned into a more innovative Swipe)
Sources given: @sjgadsby via @cybette via MeeGoExperts
Thanks for the tip, Adan!
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the n950 should be made fore the normal consumers not only for the developers :@
Hear hear!
you and amilly said the same thing plus myself
i miss my N900
and i will miss the N950 unless someone slaps elop and make a N9-01 as the new variant with the same specs as the N9 BUT…HOLD ON……..AND LED/XENON FLASH AND OPTICAL ZOOM LENS 12mp 
4.3 inch screen and 1500mah +battery and yes PHYSICAL QWERTY KEYBOARD
hell yeah a phone with that esp. Will be a real disrupting device imagine SO Meego 12mpxls xenon flash 16gb internal memory 1.2 mghz and 1gb en ram cool
YES slap elop! I’d rather get the N950..I like your suggestion of an N9-01..
I have an N950 and trust me , you do NOT need the keyboard on this device for most usage. The virtual keyboard is fantastic and most of the UI areas are already locked into portrait mode.
so your ting me that while at a shell or while updating a google doc spreadsheet you dont want the keyboard. Not to mention i used keyboard shortcuts for everything.
If I wanted to update a google doc spreadsheet with any efficiency/speed.
I wouldn’t want to use the physical qwerty of any smart phone.
Portable BT or USB qwerty is far better!
Also, someone’s designing an awesome app that makes using the terminal great with the VKB.
Check it out on the “N9: it’s finally here” thread @TMO
There’s also some more discussion about the VKB, & how it’s as good (if not better) than anything else out there atm.
It’s massive thread, & the last time all this info popped up was some time ago, happy searching.
Great that you have the N950, but my personal preference is to have a physical keyboard just like the N900. You must be having a amazing time developing on the N950…
Absolutely!
I have a feeling it will – once Nokia have sold us enough N9′s…
hope you got that right ;p
I have a feeling that N9 release will be delayed to next year even though it is ready
it won’t, don’t worry.
of course it wont.
it has been delayed for a whole fucking year
Well, 7.5 months, not 1yr.
Original deadline was anytime in Dec. 2010
i still have the 770!
and the n900 of course!
So much wasted potential. So many awesome memories. Why can’t they scrap this Windows phone crap and load MeeGo on those phones instead? Why not load MeeGo in the upcoming Symbian Zeta etc 1Ghz phones?
MeeGo has all the hype and respect. Use that hype to build the next ecosystem.
Elop made Symbian untouchable by announcing it’s death on Feb 11. Sad to say but Symbian is finished in 2011 because of Elop and it will never come back.
I wish they could come with a maemo 5 device that is up to date and slim^^
Meego is awesome, but missing the customization in homescreens!
You need to read-up in the meego forums…
There’s talk of how this may be addressed.
In fact, it may not need to be addressed at all, given current config. flexibility.
Any words on meego phones made by other manufacturers?
is LG really making one?
If samsung makes one, that will be interesting, i start to like samsung galaxy s2 with 4.3 super amoled and dual core processor,
Expect a pure MeeGo phone/announcement regarding the same before the end of the year
Nokia N9 arrives at FCC!!!
http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/21/nokia-n9-arrives-at-fcc-opened-up-to-see-where-all-the-meego-co/
eh? Nokia DID come up with Swipe! (or are you asking if they would have if they had launched at the planned date)
Yes that’s what he’s saying…
There was some big delays, partly because of a major disagreement (around Dec IIRC) about the UI.
You know if Nokia could have executed this Windows Phone change whilst holding on to 30% of the smart phone market, they would have had a chance with it (or indeed anything else they had decided to try, including Android, Meego, or even a fixed Symbian).
By year end they are going to have a single digit share of the smart phone market, and without a miracle that share is still going to be shrinking.
They probably will be the largest player in the 6th or 7th ecosystem (behind Samsung’s Bada, Chinese Meego and Android derivatives in China): as long as that lasts.
Bear in mind the Chinese are coming, and they are coming with Meego, and even though they haven’t actually made it yet. The Sina Mobile Meego ecosystem is twice the size of the entire US subscriber case. Last year in China Nokia had 77% market share, last quarter they had 7% or something. They have made themselves irrelevant in China (and India) and thus in the rest of the world.
I still have the Nokia 770 running on OS2007HE and the N900.
I’m going to keep my N900 until death separates us, then I’ll buy a chinese fone with MeeGo.
Most of my friends dont know that the N900 runs something else than symbian. They, and even some android users, keep asking me: “what app is that? Where can I download it?” -It’s funny.
Digitec – one of the most reliable webshops of Switzerland – has the N9 in it’s sort of products.
Delivery Date: Mid of September (Magenta 16GB End of September)
Prices: Black 64GB: 699CHF (Swiss Francs) -> 594 Euro
Black, Cyan and Magenta 16GB: 649CHF -> 551 Euro.
64GB comes only in Black!
To compare the Digitec-Prices with your Webshop of Choice, I’ll give you some Digitec-Prices of other Phones.
Nokia N8: 369CHF -> 313Euro
SGS2: 567CHF -> 482Euro
iPhone4 32GB: 819CHF -> 696Euro (who pays that? o.O)
I don’t work for Digitec, afaik, digitec doesn’t deliver to outside of Switzerland.
Digitec.ch for more infos.
Greetings
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I’m currently running an N900 and N8 side-by-side.
The N8 is a great device in many ways – and certainly has a better camera, flash, microphone and loudspeaker than the N900.
But the N900 is sooo much more awesome in soo many ways!
The parallax scrolling between homescreens, the multitasking, the choice and flexibility of widgets and scope for configuration and personalisation all add up to a device that so ahead of the curve two years ago that it is still a force to be reckoned with in 2011.
I am not a Linux expert, but even I can re-flash the firmware and run some of the unstable, early-release apps and patches that have ensured the N900 keeps up-to-date.
The Community Seamless Software Updates in particular have helped keep the N900′s UI fresh and innovative – I love the ‘zoom on press’ feature that make the screen almost like liquid when touched – you almost feel your finger pressing into the screen as opposed to tapping a hard surface – who said resistive screens had nothing to offer in terms of UX?
I love my N8 – it’s a beautiful, practical and rugged device with some great features, but I could see myself selling that to get an N9.
But there’s no way I’d sell my N900 – unless Nokia release the N950 upon a grateful market.
We can only dream about the N950 being released to the public… I too have the N900 and N8…I don’t know if I will replace my N8 for the N9…I have to agree with you that “the N900 is sooo much more awesome in soo many ways!”
It’s a misconception that the Intel tie-up had much to do with the slow-down, there were significant factors at play internally.
It’s a misconception that the Intel tie-up had much to do with the slow-down, there were more significant factors at play internally.
It is a pity that development Maemo was so slow