[maemo-developers] 3G model?

[From: Ryan Abel]

(Taking this back on-list)

On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:10 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote:

> I was going on the previously-posted link,
> http://maemo.org/community/council/community_highlights_for_december_2008-part_i
> -january_2009-part_ii/
> which mostly consists of speculation about "interesting things about  
> the
> potential hardware that weren't contained in the not-announcement from
> the Summit (of course all pre-release information isn't to be taken as
> any sort of announcement and is subject to change)."

I put in those disclaimers to keep people from interpreting it as an  
official announcement, but this is the information from the kernel  
code for the device Nokia is currently working on. Lacking an official  
hardware announcement, this is all very strong indication of what we  
can expect from the next device.

> I haven't looked up Summit transcripts, but I'm assuming that a
> "not-announcement" is not an official announcement of an upcoming  
> product.

It's not the official hardware announcement, but it is an announcement  
of their intentions for the next device. Please read over the  
LinuxDevices link.

> Even if the product has been officially announced, though, people
> speculating last month on "potential hardware" to be included is a
> pretty strong indication that it's not going to be released in the  
> next
> few months.

Are you sure? The alpha SDK with the new UI is coming soon, and the  
beta SDK should be expected in May. We're not very far away from a  
release.

> For my immediate purposes (i.e., deciding whether I need to
> get a 3G Skype phone now as an adjunct to my N800 or if I can get away
> with waiting until an N800-plus-universally-accessible-internet device
> is released), that's really all that matters.  No announced release  
> date
> means it won't be out soon enough for me to skip the Skype phone and
> only carry one device.


That's fine, but I want to be sure you and everybody reading this list  
understands that these aren't unsubstantiated rumors. Nokia has  
announced their intentions, and they're working on the software. We're  
getting a new device, and we're getting it within the next 6 months.  
An awful lot of people on here seem to be entirely ignorant of these  
facts, so I recommend that you do some reading up on the links that  
Andrew and I have provided in this thread. . . .

--
Ryan Abel
Maemo Community Council chair