Ladies and gentleman – if you needed an excuse to take a vacation to Amsterdam, now is a good time. Quim Gil just posted that this year’s Maemo Summit will be there on October 9, 10, and 11.
Last year’s Summit brought some good ideas, good direction, and great enthusiasm for platform development. We also found out what the next tablet will contain. Seven months later, we still do not see a new tablet but the Maemo 5 SDK is solid and I am sure Nokia is allowing the developers to lead with applications that will be ready when the device is launched.
Personally, I hope to see a new tablet by August at the latest. I don’t know if it will be released before the end of June as that is too close to the Nokia N97 launch date and there will be very few people who would buy both but likely a lot of overlap in those who would buy one OR the other.
For myself, I want both for different reasons. The N97 will be the most advanced phone available and the Maemo 5 tablet will be the most portable full-featured Internet/Social Networking device combined with the most advanced Linux handheld ever.
That’s what I believe so far. Let’s see what arrives!
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“if you needed an excuse to take a vacation to Amsterdam, now is a good time”
I suspect we’ll be hearing a lot of jokes in this thread about another excuse (or two) to go there…
What is your rational for determining that “the N97 will be the most advanced phone available”? The N97 is based on outdated technology – it’s based on OMAP2 and devices such as the Palm Pre (which is due shortly, in a similar timeframe to N97) will be based on OMPA3. And then there is the Apple gen 3 iPhone due real-soon-now.
From the look of the demonstration videos, the OS and apps on the Palm look to be far more accomplished and fluid than the N97 which looks jerky and with (another) poor touchscreen. Obviously the iPhone dumps all over anything Symbian based.
Frankly the N97 is already out of date, before it has launched. Yet you consider it the most advanced phone available – on what basis? A few widgets???
Madness.
And finally, why would anyone want both an N97 AND the next Nokia tablet?
Surely a better combination would be a tablet and a basic phone – having two highly specced devices that perform a similar function is just overkill.