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Exactly. I didn't read into this that there was any decisions or commitments made beyond what's been said before. Still, it's nice to get an update that lets us know that work is progressing and just what that work is. Thanks!

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you made my day :D

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This is fantastic news.

I don't see why everyone is concerned about a "productized" version of meego on the N900. We don't have any sort of OVI services that work with the n900, and if the reference apps that are provided by the base meego distribution are any less functional than the ones we have now they would be unusable. I don't see how a vanilla smartphone OS could do any less and expect to compete with the likes of Android and iPhone.

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I was just thinking yesterday "i wonder when nokia are gonna speak up about MeeGo" it's been intel with most of the, well, intel recently.

Thanks Nokia.

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Great news but for me its still not 100% clear if the official N900 MeeGo release will be Nokia branded. Meaning that will include all the Nokia services and Ovi ecosystem.

For example is great to have MeeGo officially on the N900 but for a true Nokia user it will be a pain to have it without Ovi Maps, Ovi Contacts, Ovi Sync and the rest of the Nokia services.

But even if thats the case we will finally get portrait mode for the whole thing, MMS hopefully a decent call log and more other goodies :)

I guess time will tell how this will turned out to be.

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I wonder if Nokia will seperate the Ovi store and Ovi Maps from the Meego OS (or if they will only bundle it with their Meego provided devices). It would be a great tool to leverage users if they had a QT based version of Ovi Maps running on any Meego device.

Especially since Nokia seems like they want to join in on what Apple and Google are doing now (ads and location based services).

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It seems unlikely to me that Nokia would bundle any Ovi services with MeeGo as manufacturers other than Nokia will be deploying it. It's more likely that each manufacturer will need to implement their own replacements.

I wouldn't be suprised if MeeGo had it's own maps, and Intel has it's own store. I would be suprised if these vanilla meego apps didn't measure up to the current Nokia ones.

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MeeGo is open to all. Various manufacturers would be able to put their own suite/software bundle on top of MeeGo and distribute it through their plethora of devices.

For instance, Nokia's brand of MeeGo which might include the Ovi suite and stuff could be possibly called the Harmattan.

It is definitely likely and very much possible that Nokia would include their Ovi softwares on top of MeeGo for IT'S devices. The real question is "but what and when"?

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I'm pretty sure that people will NOT remember this, and every announcement that doesn't reiterate this &/or make it clear that we're not exactly talking about Nokia's Harmattan will get confused responses. The nature of MeeGo and the MeeGo brand is still pretty confusing.

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Hey, this was news to me! This is very exciting!