Haha Bu fung sadly i don like orange i prefer grey or silver white can't decide what colour i want still =.="

WHO IS THE MODERATOR?? CAN PUT MY NAME IN ORANGE OWNERS LIST?

For Nokia you're stuck with whatever OS that your phone comes with.They won't upgrade the entire OS only provide firmware updates probably because they want the best troublefree tested OS for the phone.

But I expect things to change with MeeGo.If you have delved into Maemo's world you should know that we have our own saying:"If the OS is imperfect,we'll try to perfect it ourself"
This is the main advantage of open source.The open community is capable delivering stable working OS to end users.So far they have delivered fully working new Maemo OS for Nokia 770(IT) & Android for N900(New update coming soon)
Symbian is also open source but I don't see much people developing the OS because it simply lack power that MeeGo/Maemo/Android offers.

But in future I do hope that Nokia will follow other company way of giving full OS update choice instead of bugfix.We'll know more in November.

Godlike phone can bring down satellite  bor?
When  you  buy  N8? Wait  next  firmware?

Bro, you are talking about android there, and talkng about HTC, and talking about upgrading os from ver 2.0 to ver 2.1, technically a 0.1 version increase that most probably fixes bugs and add some new feature, but essentilly the same. And HTC also out nice disclaimer when you want to upgrade also. If it weren't for the XDA developers, HTC would have been dead in the water - Because they are so lousy at doing that.

Nokia also fixes bugs and I like their firmware updates before because it normally really comes with big bug fixes. I know of no other company that manages, through a firmware update increase the speaker volume of my 5310 flat Xpressmusic phone. Or fix the N95 showstopper memory problems.

Well...Thats the price that N900 users paid for buying phone with dead OS.
But the community really did lots of things.Reviewers complain that N900 support MMS,community came up with fmms,another group criticize N900's crappy camera & again open source community(Standford Students) came up with DSLR class fcamera.There are plenty of things done without Nokia's support.

Since Nokia is gambling everything on MeeGo I doubt they will pull stunt MeeGo like they did on Maemo.You can expect proper support.
Desperation to play Asphalt5 forced me to install Android.Turn out N900 can operate Android just fine.

In short; Maemo has is strength as well as it's weakness. Personally, for the OS, like MeeGo, it's a class above smartphone range OS; After all, Maemo is a Tablet OS, and the possibilities and flexibility is very wide, also on the customization, many things can be done. There is Chromium port (Google Chrome for Linux), there is mplayer, there is VLC player, there is full Java can run Java Applets, for programmers, you can even install NetBeans, there are applications for JB for PS3, there are aMSN (Desktop version MSN for Linux), so much more. But it really lacks the "power" to support all those.

Godlike or not, depends on each person definition/preference; Technically, it's a powerful device; If someone don't like Nokia, then close one eye on the branding thing. The OS itself is powerful and great. But the phone functionalities is very poor; can't believe it's from the same company which provides great phone function.

Just my cheap 2 cents "lah"; call it godlike or whatever; love your own device and OS. Each device and OS has their own target Customers or Customers that prefers them.
Now back to N8; Already send my N8 to NCC ICU... face some problems and go through several hassle. Anyway, already emailed to Radiance/Paolo to follow up with Nokia.

Btw, after I hard reset, I can't play those demo videos anymore, it shows license missing or expired?
I heard another rangers also send in his device to NCC?

Exactly.In past I've always criticize Nokia on software support.
Their software support always been half baked.Take N97,5800 & C6 for example.It took them long time to come up with stable usable firmware.
However I do think now it's better.N8's firmware is good when I tested it & even N900 is getting firmware update soon.
Seems like Nokia do prioritize software now.

Lucky I wasn't chosen as Ranger.Else the Nokia workers would have get earful from me 

Somehow I wished MeeGo never come into picture...
In my personal opinion, MeeGo doesn't look better than Maemo; Maemo is unique as it's an Internet Tablet OS, which has it's own category of users; Now if MeeGo is different (I feel its Android-ish), then those Maemo category of users will no longer have proper replacement OS, they'll need to "switch".
Finally, Maemo still sounds way cool than MeeGo; So does Android.

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Added on October 18, 2010, 5:27 pm

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=619...light=PSFreedom

Phone functions maybe poor but you have to love the functions like integrated IM's.Very creative.
But too bad these sort of functions wasn't brought forward for Symbian.
You can jailbreak PS3 with N900.
Maybe Symbian browser identify itself as mobile browser & force all the sites to load it's mobile sites.

btw...it makes me sad when people apply the term 'jailbreak' on any other thing then iphone
seems like that stupid term is getting popular by days?

i think only you have problem..i can browse full site of facebook and open farmville...but after the farmville load,the browser crash..

Why is Ovi Map so slow...It always delay..
Is it possible to install Garmin XT Mobile into Nokia N8? Please Advice..Thanks..=]

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Added on October 18, 2010, 6:14 pmWhy is Ovi Map so slow...Is it possible to install Garmin XT Mobile into Nokia N8? Please Advice..Thanks..=]

what u mean by delaying?what delay?

I got 04.

That only happens with my ip4 and papago. Never had i any problem navigating using ovi maps, in fact the n8 navigation to me is perfect.

Check your settings. Faster lock means you need to use a-gps. If map loading is what is killing you, preload your maps. They are free for download.

I got 0 for 7th digit and 4 for 8th digit

@bufung, i wanna quote this guy actually 

im using desktop to quote la

680mhz arm11 with dedicated gpu vs 1ghz hummingbird intergrated gpu. why people make stupid comparison between rm1.6k with rm2.4k phone.

obviously u know what i pick

not to mention i have both phone

for me as a symbian user, i think its OK. but for me as also a android user, i don't think its ok. the UI of browser need improooooveeeement, smooth scrolling and etc2.