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[Nokia N900] The next real iphone killer!
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In cell phones, or smartphones? They make a bunch of crappy cheap phones, and then they make a bunch of highly expensive smartphones, or pda's. If your talking all around, sure, the marketshare is bigger. If your talking Smartphones, I doubt it.
it has a maemo repository with linux applications meaning they are free. linux has way more apps than the app store does btw.
You really think the Nokia will get better battery life. It's a UMID, it will get 3-4 hours tops!
I actually would like to see the iPhone a little thinner, so I disagree with your point about it being anorexic. You will see that this Nokia will fail, end of story.
hell no i have an iphone because i wanted an ipod touch with a phone built it iphone and ipod touch are the only apple products ill ever buy, rest of apple as far as im concerened is not my forté
You have no idea how hard I was laughing when I saw that. They're the whole reason I don't have one now.That Nokia looks neat and all but it doesn't run all those fancy apps that make iPhones and iPod touches sell like mad.
IMO my HTC Hermes is better than the iPhone for what I use it for.
The iPhone is a pretty cool toy, but I prefer to have a hardware keyboard, custom ROMS, 3rd party apps out of the box, bluetooth OBEX etc.
All this despite the fact that Apple > Microsoft, in fact, I hate Windows (although Win7 looks like it might be half decent).
The iPhone is a pretty cool toy, but I prefer to have a hardware keyboard, custom ROMS, 3rd party apps out of the box, bluetooth OBEX etc.
All this despite the fact that Apple > Microsoft, in fact, I hate Windows (although Win7 looks like it might be half decent).
And someone is going to re-engineer them for the Maemo platform?
The reason that the iPhone is doing well is that it is not running a desktop UI on a mobile device. It has a new UI designed especially for the touchscreen.
That success rests on a formula...
OS X - Unix core - which supports....
Cocoa - Object based software development which rests upon...
Standardised UI components built for the iPhone.. Which are rendered by
Hardware GPU.. which does all the heavy lifting.
Both Maemo and Android are missing significant chunks of this formula.
That does not kill them as platforms, but it does put them at a disadvantage compared to Apple.
C.
http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/
Just an update. And while it won't be an iPhone "killer" (because having a full desktop in your pocket is not what the masses want) it will be a contender for my next phone. I was thinking of going all Android-ish, but this phone sparks my interest. I'll have to play with it when it comes out
TI OMAP 3430: ARM Cortex-A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX with OpenGL ES 2.0 support
Up to 1GB of application memory (256 MB RAM, 768 MB virtual memory)
Quad-band GSM EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
WCDMA 900/1700/2100 MHz
Adobe Flash 9.4 support
Just an update. And while it won't be an iPhone "killer" (because having a full desktop in your pocket is not what the masses want) it will be a contender for my next phone. I was thinking of going all Android-ish, but this phone sparks my interest. I'll have to play with it when it comes out
TI OMAP 3430: ARM Cortex-A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX with OpenGL ES 2.0 support
Up to 1GB of application memory (256 MB RAM, 768 MB virtual memory)
Quad-band GSM EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
WCDMA 900/1700/2100 MHz
Adobe Flash 9.4 support
You've got it the wrong way around.Nokia hawks Symbian. Updates. Then effectively seemingly will soon drop it for it's high end smartphones.
Nokia's catching up to Apple's OS. (See the reviews wrt OS for the N97 for example).
Apple's response - have you seen Snow Leopard?
Multi-core OpenCL, OpenGL, GCD enabled iPhone, Tablet, Mac. OS 4.0 will be stonkingly fast.http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/
Just an update. And while it won't be an iPhone "killer" (because having a full desktop in your pocket is not what the masses want) it will be a contender for my next phone. I was thinking of going all Android-ish, but this phone sparks my interest. I'll have to play with it when it comes out
TI OMAP 3430: ARM Cortex-A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX with OpenGL ES 2.0 support
Up to 1GB of application memory (256 MB RAM, 768 MB virtual memory)
Quad-band GSM EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
WCDMA 900/1700/2100 MHz
Adobe Flash 9.4 support
check out slashdot, they had an android write up a few days ago. the linux and google fans love it. but it sucks because it's java
Just stop. The only iPhone killer will be the newest version of the iPhone...please stop with these fictitious dream posts about "iPhone Killers" gawd. Lame. 
