Nokia N900 – no FLAC and Ogg support
So Nokia finally announced the N900. It’s an impressive phone already getting positive reviews. Reading the specs I miss two things: FLAC and Ogg support. How is it that a Linux & Maemo based phone does not have support for FLAC and Ogg?! Let’s hope Nokia fixes that in new firmware releases.
Categories: Linux and Open Source
It is a Linux you know. You can pretty much get them function right away by yourself with earlier Maemo’s flac and oggvorbis libraries. I do not think that maemo has changed a lot, so that they wouldn’t function. And if they DON’T, the community will quite quickly fix the situation…
Oh and you don’t need to talk about firmwares “anymore”. There will be updates for seperate parts of the system, not the whole firmware. Ofcourse, as it is embedded device, it has a firmware.. but there is no need to update the whole firmware just to get a FLAC support on a media player, for example. Just like in your PC.. install the basic system (firmware), then you just update it.