A few months ago Nokia released the third iteration of their Internet Tablet N-series, the N810. This model has some new hardware characteristics, and a brand new version of the Maemo interface. Update: I designed a clean background for you, to be used with the "Echo" theme. Download it here, check out how it looks like here.
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Member since:2007-01-19
I wouldn't bet on it, at least not for the time being. I had the opportunity to attend a business meeting with the N810 product manager over at Nokia just a few days after their purchase of Trolltech, and according to him, they had no plans regarding Qtopia and N810.
Member since:2005-12-01
I wouldn't bet on it, at least not for the time being. I had the opportunity to attend a business meeting with the N810 product manager over at Nokia just a few days after their purchase of Trolltech, and according to him, they had no plans regarding Qtopia and N810. "
Just because someone at Nokia said they have "no plans" to use Qtopia, doesn't mean they aren't looking into it. Plans change.
Member since:2007-09-06
But how will we ever choose what car to buy and drive with all this choice.. it's too much..
Or maybe, the user can focus on the device and features it provides rather than the embedded OS. The people who will focus on the embedded OS are not usually the type that are scared by choice.
Member since:2006-01-04
Well, if you had looked closely at all the choices you would have seen that most of them are not really usefull/flexible or dont even have some basic apps.
So your car analogy is quite wrong. Most cars mainly offer the same thing. Transportation.
A mobile linux device should for example connect to exchange or something like that..
I am quite sure if there werent like 10 different choices a whole stack of usefull apps would evolve way faster than it is at the moment.
What this basically means is that FOSS is giving Apple and MS an even bigger headstart and can play the catch up game for much longer.
Member since:2005-07-24
I'm a big believer in the 35/35/30 rule. Two evenly matched major players which are clearly the dominant players, with a combined 70% share of the market, with the remaining 30% being a bubbling cauldron of smaller players with new, and possibly radical, ideas. This gives us a decent level of standardization. We still enjoy the benefits of healthy competition between the two major players. And one never knows what might rise up out of that cauldron.
Standardization/Competition/Innovation (Real innovation, btw. Not that cheap imitation you see on all the shelves, these days.)
Feel free to adjust the numbers to taste. There is nothing magical about 35/35/30. They're just what seem ideal to me.
Member since:
2006-01-04
I am all for choice and all .. but at some point too much choice will scare people away.
Limo, Qtopia, Maemo, Android, Openmoko etc. .. there are too many platforms and not one gets enough developer traction .. just look at the iPhone how things could be ( i dont like Apple .. but the iPhone has a lot of things right ).
I really hope Nokia will push Qtopia .. even on the N810.
I would like to see Qtopia or Android be the major player in the Linux Mobile space.