<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Mark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wolfmane@gmail.com">wolfmane@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Jamie Bennett<<a href="mailto:jamie@linuxuk.org">jamie@linuxuk.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I must of missed where 'Nokia Employees' hinted at June next year.<br>
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</div>Apparently so...<br>
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> I base my guess on a _beta_ SDK in practical feature freeze, an October<br>
> summit with high levels of device information expectations, various<br>
> community projects maturing on the Fremantle SDK and the fact that Nokia<br>
> employees have been working on the new device for quite some time now.<br>
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</div>OK, so you're saying that a beta SDK means impending device release?<br>
Doesn't seem likely to me...<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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> Why would Nokia announce at OSiM last year a device that wouldn't be<br>
> available for 20+ months later?<br>
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</div>For the same reason that OpenMoko announced a device to be released in<br>
2007 that _still_ doesn't exist...</blockquote><div><br>Funny, so I have a non-existent OpenMoko[1] device :)<br><br>[1] - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner</a><br>
<br>Best,<br><br>-- <br>Valério Valério<br><br><a href="http://www.valeriovalerio.org">http://www.valeriovalerio.org</a><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div class="im"><br>
> It's not in their interests to have a device<br>
> development in public that long. Also why would they effectivly freeze the<br>
> new software a year before it is released? Doesn't make sense does it.<br>
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</div>They aren't freezing "the software", they're freezing the *development<br>
environment* that is needed to create the software. What part of that<br>
do you not understand?<br>
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