> On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 15:33 -0500, Kasper Souren wrote: > > Isn't that normal with these kind of gadgets? If you care about that > > you should never buy any hardware. > > It is normal, but the period of time we are talking about here is short > even for consumer electronics. > > I don't care if they come out with new Maemo hardware, I do care if they > don't support both (or all) models/revisions fully--this tends to happen > after several iterations of hardware with most stuff. Fortunately, the > Maemo/Nokia 770 will probably end up being very different due to the > openness of the whole thing. > > Anyway, evidently the idea of new hardware has been debunked already: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.maemo.user/1137 Rumour mills are a great thing. I really don't think that Nokia is going to slap the developers in the face and not release a updated firmware for the 770, they have said all along that they would and why hurt the very people that are supporting them. If they did make this disasterous move the vast majority of the code is now there for the community to build the new release albeit minus any non-free products. As for a new device, its possible but I suspect its more likely going to be a repackaging of the existing device with the new firmware possible some extra addons like a bluetooth keyboard and an account for a local wireless provider with some included 'airtime minutes'. This would allow them to get some funding for the device from those providers and another outlet for them as the providers would then push the device. I heard somewhere that Orange is doing this and possible Wanado. Cheers, Peter
