Nokia N900 Not Upgradeable to MeeGo?

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So despite previous reports from Valtteri Halla from the Technical Steering Group of MeeGo that the N900 might be getting an upgrade to MeeGo, it seems that Nokia has officially stated to CNET Asia that,

“Maemo on Nokia N900 is not upgradeable to MeeGo. The first MeeGo device is targeted to be released during the second half of 2010. However, applications written for Moblin or Maemo Qt APIs will run on MeeGo.”

So I guess this means no official upgrade to MeeGo, but if we know N900 owners, they aren’t going to take no lightly. I mean if they can get Android, Mac OS, and Windows running on the darn thing, an upgraded OS based off your original one shouldn’t be too hard.

So we’ll wait for the end of the month to see if the binaries etc are released, then we’ll see how long it takes for devs to get it running on their N900’s…

UPDATE: And THIS is why I put a question mark at the end of these kind of posts… lol Seems that the quote on CNET Asia’s page was a bit taken out of context. Here is the entire quote:

N900 is a natural tool for Nokia to drive MeeGo support for our designs and for the ARM CPU architecture in general. We want to have baseline HW that is powerful, easily available for anyone and form-factor stuff so that one HW works for most platform and application development needs.

That said, please do not take this yet as a commitment to fully productise MeeGo on N900. I am quite confident that we will end up having a really good developer distro for N900 already but committing to stabilise a consumer-grade MeeGo 1.0 (first half this year) for N900 is another story. That is a product business decision beyond my scope. Also, we do not yet know about MeeGo 1 release content. I am not yet sure if I would be personally ready to let my Maemo5 go for the first MeeGo release in my daily N900 use. Let’s see

So it would seem that it is all a bunch of nothing, so again like I said, let’s see what happens at the end of the month…

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  • Pete Miller

    Well, as a N900 owner, if they don’t provide an upgrade path, I will never buy another Nokia product on principle.

    Since the word is the code repository will be opened at the end of March, and it will be for the N900, it seems this story may be off the mark. Maybe there is some subtly around the word “upgradeable”. Maybe it’s “reinstall”.

  • NeoDMD

    Clarification of what was said here:

    http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/meego-and-the-n900-meet-blogger-irresponsibility/

    Apparently this is just FUD.

  • CJM

    “If they don’t provide an upgrade…I’ll never buy Nokia again…” waaaa, waaa, waaa. Oh quit the crying. This isn’t a dumb phone, and the two OSes aren’t the same at all. I’d figure people that buy the N900 are of a higher-caliber, and have a deeper comprehension of what’s going on under the hood, and how to fix it with a fresh install / reflash when needed. Sounds like you upgrade-path whiners need to get a symbian phone. Or maybe have Apple do all the decision making for you and just wuss out and get an iPhone.

  • JK

    CJM, don’t you mean ‘just *wise up* and get an iPhone’?

  • chpost

    It’s a suicide for Nokia. They try to regain the grasps for smart phone market with n900. that is not bad for a start. Look what they’ve done. Whatever the device they come up with “MeeGo”, they will kill it with “YouGo” or “iGo”

  • kevin

    im about to buy a N900, but just like the touch pro 2, not upgradable to the next level, WP7 and now MeeGo, wat should i do? wait? i really hope that developers can work this out for us (they’re just amazingly awsome)

    • Kevin,

      I would believe that MeeGo will end up on the N900. Either officially or by developers putting it on there by themselves. As for the Touch Pro2, I’ve seen almost every Windows 6.1 phone upgraded to 6.5 when Microsoft said “it can’t be done”, so Windows Phone 7 isn’t guaranteed to be on it but theres a good possibility…

  • Elie

    “”However, applications
    written for Moblin or Maemo Qt APIs will run on MeeGo.”
    so does that means that the meego apps will run on the nokia n900.

  • viljamiinus

    I am an owner of nokia n900 and I have waited for that update, it would really suck if the update wouldn’t come.
    I’m disppointed to nokia.

    :'(