Sony Ericsson Abandons Symbian
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 24th Sep 2010 23:20 UTC
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless Well, this certainly isn't particularly surprising. The rising popularity of Android leaves more victims in its wake than just Windows Mobile. Sony Ericsson, one of the major manufacturers of Symbian phones (other than Nokia) has just announced it will pretty much abandon the platform to focus entirely on Android - leaving Nokia as the sole person cheering for team Symbian.
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Fettarme H-Milch
Member since:
2010-02-16

Because Nokia dropped it for developing MeeGo with Intel and they haven't released any such phones yet so the N900 is the only Maemo-phone around. Wait until MeeGo is out ..

Nokia didn't drop anything except a brand. MeeGo's Handset variant is Maemo 6.

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aliquis Member since:
2005-07-23

So it got nothing from Moblin at all?

Doesn't matter as far as users go. Maemo would had kicked off much better with more phones running it, and if I bought a Maemo phone I would be quite angry on Nokia for not letting the product be what it could had been.

And the MeeGo handset 1.00 version for it don't look that fun to use as is.

But you're free to turn it around any way you want.

Doesn't Nexenta use GNU userland instead of Suns? Sorta like saying Nexanta isn't a new OS but just a new version of Solaris. Which is half-true ..

Point being a a Maemo user (if nothing else by brand) you're fucked.

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Fettarme H-Milch Member since:
2010-02-16

So it got nothing from Moblin at all?

MeeGo Handset? No.
The only technology from Moblin is the Netbook GUI.
What special technology should be in Moblin anyway? Beside its GUI it was a normal Linux distribution. Components like ConnMan or oFono were jointly developed by Intel and Nokia since before MeeGo and never were developed as part of Moblin or Maemo -- they are separate projects.

And the MeeGo handset 1.00 version for it don't look that fun to use as is.

There is no MeeGo Handset 1.00. The Handset GUI is only part of MeeGo 1.1 and that's not even final.

Doesn't Nexenta use GNU userland instead of Suns? Sorta like saying Nexanta isn't a new OS but just a new version of Solaris. Which is half-true ..

I have no idea what you are trying to say. Nokia intended to switch from GTK to Qt anyway in their development of Maemo 6.
That's still happening with MeeGo, the official name is just different. Nothing besides the name changed in Nokia's roadmap: Maemo 5 is GTK-based but ships with Qt libraries to prepare for MeeGo / Maemo 6.
Maemo 6 / MeeGo will ship a completely rewritten GUI based on Qt.

Point being a a Maemo user (if nothing else by brand) you're fucked.

Your comments make no sense.

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jabbotts Member since:
2007-09-06

Perhaps as a Maemo current user, I'll have to accept Meego future user-ship. As an N900 device owner; I can easily install Meego and Android along side Maemo - yes, a tripple boot phone without discouragement from the vendor. Heck, I can toss Debian and Ubuntu into the mix.

I did the same thing with the N800; I didn't want to drop my Maemo4 cold turkey so I kept it in a dualboot while building out my Maemo5 install. The N810 came out with Maemo5 so in that case I simply dualbooted so I'd have the original little install in onboard storage and my fully filled out bootup on a partitioned SD card (I don't burn out the write cycles in the non-removable storage and I don't get limited by the size of the non-removable storage).

I'd agree that there are lingering questions that depend on how Meego fills out but "fucked" is a bit of a stretch given the ongoing activity in the Maemo repositories and potential for developers to port over to Meego or remain with Maemo until forked or Nokia shuts the servers down.

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