MeeGo Review

23 Comments

• by spamidi

  27 May 2010 at 01:12

  

  After 12 years …bye bye Nokia .. hello Android.

• by Vincent

  27 May 2010 at 18:36

  

  I paid 580€ for the phone of an new Era, a linux-like open source phone (in place of the choice of Androïd, opens source but controlled by the bad “Big Brother” Google) . And what I get is a dead-end product with no future, a great hardware but so few applications and a OS (Maemo) with many flaws. Nokia is erratic and irrespectfull of the dummy customers (like me) who bought the N900. Shame on you Nokia. My first Nokia was a 9210, than a 9300i, than a E90, a E75, an N97 and my LAST an N900.
  In my opinion, the last excellent Nokia phone was the E90. After that, Nokia lost the recipe to make good phones’OS

• by wayne

  28 May 2010 at 04:53

  

  i am utterly mortified of this news! i bought the N900 purely for the potential is posesses… and the games its capable of playing,
  it is almost like having a door slammed right in your face/wallet!!!

• by goodbyenokia

  28 May 2010 at 06:57

  

  No Meego for the N900?

  But it IS THE testing device for this OS? Someone is shitting us here big time.

  “It’s really about ensuring that you have the best possible experience designed for the features on your Nokia N900 device. Nokia realises this news may be a disappointment for some…”

  Seems as if they completely lost track on who is paying their salaries – the customer. Why don’t you let us decide what is best and disappointing?

  I’m dissapointed by the company.

  After 7 Nokias in a row, the N900 will be the last. I will never by a Nokia cell phone again and will also not advise anyone anymore to by a Nokia… seems as if Apple is the smaller pain in the back now.

  Maybe the should start to make rubber boots again, that seems to be a business they can handle, hahaha

• by Craneguy

  28 May 2010 at 07:36

  

  My N900 is going on Craigslist tonight. The shortage of useful apps (Tea steeping timer?), the poor email and phone implementation, and the fact you cannot even hard reset the damn thing when poorly written testing apps clog the wrong part of the memory have killed my faith in Nokia.

  I’m going to try an Android toting HTC.

• by matt

  28 May 2010 at 08:06

  

  @wayne @cranegu @goodbyenokia @vincent Although I understand the disappointment, which I share – I am also quite surprised at the anger this announcement is causing. I am also surprised that people bought the phone based on unconfirmed future possibilities (none of which Nokia has publicly mentioned/promised/announced). Maemo won’t be too different to MeeGo – both will be able to run QT apps, meaning that if app development takes off for MeeGo – we should also share the benefit on Maemo. I love my N900 for what it is right now – a great linux-based mobile with integrated phone/skype/msn/google talk/facebook chat. That’s what I wanted, and it’s what is available right now. What exact features have you read about that makes you want MeeGo so much?

• by Daniel

  28 May 2010 at 09:30

  

  n900 it’s the last cell phone nokia i got, after so many nokia i bought i will change and try others but i have to wait because i paid 600 dls for a shit of cell, 1 year i have to use this fucking cell, thanks nokia! you sucks
  bye

• by Mobit

  28 May 2010 at 17:31

  

  I was hoping that Nokia would finally implement voice guidance for the satnav – but now it looks like they have chosen to forget the N900. What a rip-off Thanks for nothing Nokia (By the way after the latest update my email preview only shows a blank screen !)

• by lxb

  28 May 2010 at 21:17

  

  very sorry about that because i thought about changing from my nearly new E75 for business. e75 is stated – excuse that off topic – as “the business machine” from nokia but from my point of view definately a customer misleading selling choke.
  never worked as promised and no feedback from nokia. idiotically using primarely phones extremely small memory instead of gb-holding memory cards.
  but the thought of buying again a “dead by design” device will most likely lead me to another manufacturer.
  nokia remember: it´s the quality not the quantity of different devices that holds your customers!

• by Philip

  29 May 2010 at 18:50

  

  This takes it to the point!!! Ur so damn right! I love my N900 of course (im writing this with my little powerful device so… im still using it and its still great). But this long period of developing Maemo was nothing more than a sh*t. All those beautiful, talented communities wich are destroyed with the fusion… MeeGo will may be new, fresh source but it will be kinda more useful for non-geeks We (the geeks basicly) are the people helping Nokia to release more software and explore new ideas. More than a half of the apps aviable for N900 and Maemo 5 are not made by Nokia itself! If they are kiddin some more of us we will leave this dead-end creating monster called Nokia. What they gonna do then? No geeks no software developing no apps no reasons to buy no customers no profit and finally nokia will fail through this mistakes! But i dont wanna be a pessimist. MeeGo will sure have its fans too and i hope we (the N900 users) will be suppored by them to not be left alone with this not yet finished software. I hope so!!! Philip

• by tux821

  31 May 2010 at 17:14

  

  ok, we where promised a commercial release of MeeGo for our Nokia N900′s so I understand the emotions.

  But when I think of it:
  1) Nokia did deliver a MeeGo version for the Nokia N900.
  Also great they use it as one of the test hardware platforms.
  So who knows how this will develop.
  Looking at the maturity of the Meamo OS it would be a big investment and risk to deploy this pretty new MeeGo OS commercialy at this moment.
  Think of the initial release of Maemo .. there sure will appear a few bugs before MeeGo will run as good as Maemo now.
  As Maemo is Open Source the cummunity can still decide to polish it for this great Nokia N900 phone. Maybe Nokia will be so nice to open up some of closed parts, who knows.

  2) The 1.2 release is on it’s way and reading some of the post it looks like a great update!

  3) On the downside commercial apps will probally tuned to this new MeeGo OS. No problem for me, most of the apps I use are from the Maemo repositories which are based on Debian so there is and will be plenty app’s. The only commercial app I would miss is the route navigation.

  Bottom line I will hold on to my Nokia N900 for now as it’s a super smartphone and with PR 1.2 with a pretty good OS.

• by enri

  04 Jun 2010 at 20:57

  

  This is the last time I bought nokia phone.
  BUY NOKIA

• by Kam

  21 Jun 2010 at 01:52

  

  This must be kinda joke from Nokia… I am really disappointed …
  Nokia thinks customer have too much money to spend on devices with no proper support? Where is the era of customer satisfaction?

  No wonder Nokia is loosing it market share, next few years Google or HTC or Apple will buy Nokia over…

  I got N900 , but I guess I would get an Iphone or Android device , it seems they have more sense of responsibility with their products…

  Goodbye NOKIA…..

• by Mike

  23 Jun 2010 at 02:07

  

  Im disapointed that meego will not be available but even more peeed off with the level pf customer services from Nokia .

  Ive written several emails to them and never had one reply.

  I really like the N900 but not sure hpw motivated developers will be bearing in mind maemo is effectively out dated.

  Ive bought probaly 15 nokia phones to date will this be my last nokia ? not sure but i will be looking harder at other options.

• by Santo

  30 Jun 2010 at 03:00

  

  I,m perfectly happy with Nokias policy. And my N900 too. Would never chance to another brand. Their phones just don’t work the way i nedd them to. Nokia is great.

• by ianstudio

  06 Jul 2010 at 16:38

  

  I’ve just gotten a Nokia n900 last week.. without even looking at blogs etc.. Just the commercial website: http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/

  I am a Flash developer and wanted a mobile I could see Flash 10 on soon.. supposedly.. and now I realize that my brand new product is already obsolete, that its operating system is already left in the dirt… I feel completely cheated… I actually got this instead of an iPhone 4.. for only ONE reason.. the upcoming Flash 10… I will try to get my phone company to exchange it.. as I’m extremely disappointed.. sure I could install Nitroid and Meego later on, by myself like a nerd since no-one will make us a good installer and I’ll have to use command lines and so on and risk destroying my “obsolete” n900 with no customer support if I screw up.. or I could just get an iPhone and like Steve Jobs… forget about Flash on mobile… and get a product that works and has real continuous user-friendly development.. Maybe Apple is always right after all… I wanted to believe Steve Jobs was wrong.. I’m starting to believe he is right in more ways than one.

  NOKIA you suck !!!! I’m very disappointed… things become obsolete so quickly these days.. Humanity has reached pathological levels of nonsense. Hope 2012 takes us all down really, this lack of continuity in all things is going nowhere FAST !!!

• by bob

  29 Aug 2010 at 02:24

  

  what a huge dissapointment. nokia is falling behind and its not making any effort to catch up and is ditching its costumers. the n900 will be my last nokia phone.

• by naren

  11 Sep 2010 at 21:30

  

  nokia was great but now with n900 it sucked i am just wondering why it released the incomplete phone but for now i am waiting for next update pr 1.3 and the enhancement its going to bring does it support portrait mode,mms and 3g video calling

• by David

  13 Sep 2010 at 08:27

  

  In was so in loved with this phone, that i was going to get it next friday but after reading this….. I guess i’ll wait for n8. i dont know what to do. I think this device won’t be unsopported but if u say so… maybe n97 nis a better choice.

• by Dorcas Wah

  20 Sep 2010 at 14:58

  

  Forget the N8. This disappointing news is the last I will ever hear from Nokia as it will be the last phone I’ll ever buy from Nokia.

• by beo

  05 Oct 2010 at 04:21

  

  N8 Suxx, N900 no support for future, E75 too far from being a budy professional smartphone … something’s rotten in the house of NOKIA

• by raihan

  07 Dec 2010 at 03:59

  

  I LOVE MY N900 it is a damn powerful device. But i think it was a huge mistake from Nokia to give up on this phone so quick. it has a hell of a lot of potential if they only new. big up to the community for making this phone what it is.

• by Javad

  08 Jun 2011 at 18:19

  

  Why ? Why ? Why You Dont Release Meego For N900 ? Wana All People Hate NOKIA ?