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A quick question to someone who knows what they're talking about. If for arguments sake meego n9 isn't on the horizon, would it be possible to choose a hardware platform such as the e7 and port maemo5. This would give us better hardware, separate charging port, usb port that isn't made of cheese etc. And with alien dalvik hopefully on it's way would make for an awesome device. It would certainly be an improvement on shitbian 3. Reason I ask is I'm seeing alot more 'broken usb' posts (me included) and the supply of n900s has to run out at some point.
 
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i think that would be pretty nice.

the e7 looks like a very nice hardware...
 
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The main problem with ports will always be proprietary drivers or rather lack thereof.
 
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what if a very unhappy nokia employee decides to give us those drivers? would it be useful?
 
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Originally Posted by ceroberts75 View Post
i think that would be pretty nice.

the e7 looks like a very nice hardware...
Very nice, except for some key specs:

N900: ARM Cortex A8, PowerVR SGX530 graphics
E7: ARM 11

N900: 480x800
E7: 360x640

So I'd think it's not a good idea, due to the inferior hardware of the newer phone.
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Originally Posted by __-_-_-__ View Post
what if a very unhappy nokia employee decides to give us those drivers? would it be useful?
That would only even make sense if they have those drivers -- AFAIK Nokia has not done a Linux port for the E7, so not likely.
 
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This is looking like a nice option (if feasible) now that Nokia are dragging their feet massively wrt n950 (some folk are even speculating Q4 now)
Particularly if the rumors are true, and the one Meego phone they release won't be qwerty.
 
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Originally Posted by Sopwith View Post
Very nice, except for some key specs:

N900: ARM Cortex A8, PowerVR SGX530 graphics
E7: ARM 11

N900: 480x800
E7: 360x640

So I'd think it's not a good idea, due to the inferior hardware of the newer phone.
crap it's actually inferior in every respect!? wow... how lame..
 
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Originally Posted by jalyst View Post
crap it's actually inferior in every respect!? wow... how lame..
Actually, I believe that the E7 has a better GPU.

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