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Nokia: Maemo Phones Will Be Ours, Not the Operators'

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Azeron

Sep 9, 2009, 11:27 AM

Verizon? Doubtful...

Well that pretty much seals the deal that we will never see such a phone on Verizon. Nokia has never made a great CDMA phone in any case. I applaud this attitude.
On the other hand what a great way for Verizon to bring exclusive Nokia phones back and charge them as a premium phone data plan which is now going to be the root of ARPU to go up. I can just imagine Hot Nokia Phones at Verizon but require the extra m...
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Azeron said:
Well that pretty much seals the deal that we will never see such a phone on Verizon. Nokia has never made a great CDMA phone in any case. I applaud this attitude.


What are you talking about? The 3589i...
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I'm with you about Verizon. It seems pretty unlikely that they would release anything without their signature/horrible red interface (not to mention some crippled functionality that forces you to pay to use one of the built-in components). T-Mobile is...
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Jayshmay

Sep 9, 2009, 9:58 AM

Hear Nokia roar!!!

Let carriers be CARRIERS, and handset makers be HANDSET makers! ! ! ! Hear Nokia roar
AT&T!!!!

That's all I have to say thank you and have a good day!
The only reasons carriers ever do their own UI programming is to A) control what users can/cannot do, Verizon's MO or B) highlight/promote/make-impossible-to-avoid the various for pay carrier services that increase ARPU. Neither of these is helpful t...
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Couldn't..agree..more 😎 Nokia has seen its products crippled for FAR TOO LONG. It has done NOTHING to help them sell products and has damaged their reputation. Three cheers!
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flip mode

Sep 9, 2009, 1:16 PM

Screw The Carriers..

It's not the carriers who shell out the big bucks for these phones. It's the subscribers and we should be happy with the phones. THIS is how phones should be, not 90% customized for the carrier. GOOD JOB NOKIA - PAVE THE WAY 😎
netboy

Sep 9, 2009, 9:55 AM

who cares! Nokia sucks anyway!

how many programs/apps can i get on this Maemo Linux? haha
http://maemo.org/downloads/OS2008/ »

It's a desktop Linux distro customized for a small screen/slower processor, so there's far more and far better programs that are available for most phone platforms.
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