Saturday, May 21, 2011

Testing and Waiting

This is testing my N900's native blogging application (MaStory); not much to say other than that. Well, okay, if I were to continue on with the subjects of my prior blog posts here there's much that could be said . . . but it'd all be speculation. Nokia's latest phone---whatever exactly it turns out to be, although if it isn't their Maemp/MeeGo device it'll be quite shocking---has been trickling leaks this past week, so it's tempting to get into the details. But so far, all that really seems certain is a slide-out keyboard and a 12 megapixel autofocus camera. Meanwhile, the bi-annual MeeGo conference is just beginning, and Quim Gil's session elaborating on how Nokia's stack differs from the mainline MeeGo stack is . . . missing? And the FCC filing for whatever this new phone is will be entirely released to the public June 24th.

So it would seem we're on the verge of an announcement, but Nokia has been quite successful in preventing any firm details from coming out yet. Patience, I suppose, will be the order of the day . . . although while I'm in France for most of June I can't truthfully claim I won't be constantly checking for news.

Addendum: This is me testing MaStory's editing feature, and while doing so posting this link to a very detailed history of what we know about this phone and where the pieces of info have come from. It is a bit disheartening to remember that the first glimmer was spotted so long ago in phone terms (well over a year ago), but taken together it's like a TV show about to conclude. Hopefully it doesn't go the Lost or Battlestar Galactica route . . .