Have you actually tried an N97? It's based on OMAP2, which is very much last years technology, and it's got a horrible touchscreen saddled to Symbian S60 which is creaking at the seams. I've used one, and it's very much a "meh" device - nothing special, certainly nowher near as impressive as competing devices (Apple, Palm, HTC)
Innovate? Nokia? Don't make me laugh, they're just playing catch up right now and haven't "innovated" for years.
In under 2 years Android has acquired a bigger following, development community and general support than Nokia + Maemo have achieved in 3-4 years. Maemo is still a pile of festering sh1te, part open source/part closed source with Nokia calling the shots, making p1ss poor design decisions and not understanding what open source development is all about.
The iPhone had more apps available for it within just a few days than Maemo, despite the iPhone not having any form of development kit available until much later. Yes, many of those iPhone apps are rubbish, but the same applies to all mobile platforms and Maemo is no exception, or Symbian for that matter.
Symbian is going nowhere unless Nokia revamp it top to bottom, but Maemo could be something if Nokia pull their finger out and develop the quality apps to go with the Linux OS (the stock apps on Maemo are pretty dire). The lack of any PIM functionality also leaves Maemo based tablets as toys/tinkerer devices rather than anything more serious.
Apple on the other hand have good hardware and a very good OS and applications. Palm look to have made a decent return with the Pre and WebOS. Nokia? Looking like a "fail" to me.
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Have you actually tried an N97? It's based on OMAP2, which is very much last years technology, and it's got a horrible touchscreen saddled to Symbian S60 which is creaking at the seams. I've used one, and it's very much a "meh" device - nothing special, certainly nowher near as impressive as competing devices (Apple, Palm, HTC)
Innovate? Nokia? Don't make me laugh, they're just playing catch up right now and haven't "innovated" for years.
In under 2 years Android has acquired a bigger following, development community and general support than Nokia + Maemo have achieved in 3-4 years. Maemo is still a pile of festering sh1te, part open source/part closed source with Nokia calling the shots, making p1ss poor design decisions and not understanding what open source development is all about.
The iPhone had more apps available for it within just a few days than Maemo, despite the iPhone not having any form of development kit available until much later. Yes, many of those iPhone apps are rubbish, but the same applies to all mobile platforms and Maemo is no exception, or Symbian for that matter.
Symbian is going nowhere unless Nokia revamp it top to bottom, but Maemo could be something if Nokia pull their finger out and develop the quality apps to go with the Linux OS (the stock apps on Maemo are pretty dire). The lack of any PIM functionality also leaves Maemo based tablets as toys/tinkerer devices rather than anything more serious.
Apple on the other hand have good hardware and a very good OS and applications. Palm look to have made a decent return with the Pre and WebOS. Nokia? Looking like a "fail" to me.