Does it work on N900?

[nii-teiko]

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sorry

I've seen the other threads now. my apologies

posted via the N900

[L.Rawlins]

...plus where is the native S60 5th support? before you say Skyfire...if you can announce plans to natively support the above then why not the world's largest (and crummy in parts) Smartphone OS?

*sniff sniff* nah...doesn't smell right to me either

Let me just stop you right there smart-alec. Symbian in either it's 3rd or 5th Editions and the upcoming open sourced revival in the form of Symbian^3 is to be found on devices that support an array of resolutions, codecs and processing chip-sets.

Unlike the iPhone, or Android/WebOS for the most part, the level of development and testing required is extraordinary if it's to be done well. I'm not about to argue with your claim of unparalleled market saturation, and for your information I'm actually running an S60 device myself, but that attitude isn't going to get you anywhere around here.

Symbian offers the biggest audience - yes, but I can assure it also offers the biggest challenge where there are varying levels of common ground in the back catalogue of devices that sport any of them.

[L.Rawlins]

Maemo as a platform has been canned. At MWC Nokia have announced plans to merge the Maemo core with Intel's own Moblin offering to create a new jointly backed Linux platform known as 'MeeGo'.

This announcement effectively renders the N900 as a singular entity, developmentally defunct... unless it is to benefit from an operating system overhaul that would keep it relevant amongst its peers.

[easy1355]

I have the N900.... now I know that this service works on it, as it did the first day I tried it, now it's saying every-time I try the 'media is corrupt' odd....

The N900 is an amazing phone! But, let's hope the applications get better

[TVC_Colwal]

I would just like to remind people that Skyfire has nothing to do with TVCatchup whatsoever and although it works for some it doesn't for others for various reasons which are only known to Skyfire and are best checked on their forums as to the reason why.

[L.Rawlins]

Colin, Skyfire doesn't work on the N900's Maemo based operating system. I guess that was a 'force of habit' response to such enquiries!

[TVC_Colwal]

Mr Rawlins that was a general request not specific.

[Roady_UK]

Maemo as a platform has been canned. At MWC Nokia have announced plans to merge the Maemo core with Intel's own Moblin offering to create a new jointly backed Linux platform known as 'MeeGo'.

This announcement effectively renders the N900 as a singular entity, developmentally defunct... unless it is to benefit from an operating system overhaul that would keep it relevant amongst its peers.

MeeGo and Maemo will share the same development platform meaning that MeeGo applications with be compatible with Maemo.

I wouldn't be surprised if there where a future option to 'upgrade' the N900 from Maemo to MeeGo.

[Roady_UK]

Totally off the cuff - i've only just come across this forum, i'm a N900 owner (and previous S60 owner/lover & still have my (t)rusty N95 8gig)

Wouldn't it be better to direct development to a more cross platform 'standard' such as flash? It's fairly obvious (to me) that future devices will be flash 'compatible' no matter the make/model/OS implimented... The iPhone really was/is a giant leap backwards compared to the progress made with Symbian and Andriod over the years. The N900 is the logical next step (fully featured & integrated flash support) and although Maemo will gracefully shortly vanish - the steps made (hardware and development wise) will be a milestone for other developers and devices. We might even see native flash support on an 'iDevice' before we reach old age

[L.Rawlins]

MeeGo and Maemo will share the same development platform meaning that MeeGo applications with be compatible with Maemo.

I wouldn't be surprised if there where a future option to 'upgrade' the N900 from Maemo to MeeGo.

Here's hoping, from all I've seen and read it became quite revered amongst the Nokia community; it would be awful to see it so unceremoniously outmoded after such a brief existence on the market.