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Wait a moment..
1. Nokia said the N900 will be getting official portrait mode via an on-the-air update. Well lets igonre that.
2. Nokia said all future high end phones will run Maemo and mid-range phones will run Symbian.
3. Many of us bought the N900, even though I dont regret (thanks to the community), Nokia suddenly announced change of plans and announced end of Maemo within 4-6months of the N900's release and announced Meego as the greatest thing in the world.
4. Nokia then discouraged active developers from developing for maemo. Hope everyone remembers Instinctiv.
5. N900 was declared officially dead by Nokia even before it completed its 1year of existence.
6. Stephen Elop becomes CEO of Nokia.
a.) Change of plans. Nokia decides to adopt Windows Phone as its primary high-end OS of choice.
b.) Announces Meego devices will also be developed parallel to Windows devices and Symbian will step down to mid-range.
c.) Announces Symbian is going to reach End Of Life, but then later realises their mistake (that all their new releases like the announced X7 & E6 runs Symbian) and corrects that they will continue to release Symbian Phones till 2016.
d.) Stephen Elop's Oh s*it moment for meego.
e.) Meego is dead, atleast for Nokia.
f.) Nokia announces that it will develop 1 Meego device this year and thats it. It will be called the N950.
7. Nokia announces N9 & N950. Both phones look sexy as hell. Just like the N900 was when it was announced.
a.) Elop blabbers that N9 will be the first and last meego device and N950 will be a developer exclusive device.
b.) Realises that people might wonder why are they buying an officially killed project and promises that Alien Dalvik will be available on the N9 shortly.
Well, Nokia N900 will be getting a fully portrait UI shortly. Nokia told this too.

Well, now let me say what I feel.
While the N9 designs is one of the sexiest phone designs I've seen to date, let me say that the hardware specs would have been dazzling an year ago. Hardware wise, it would have stood against the Samsung Galaxy S and the likes. Its the age of mobile dual core now and high end graphics and soon developers will start developing apps and games that can utilise the hardware. Here, whether alien dalvik or not, N9 will lag behind the competition.

As far as I understand, microsoft hates android maybe even more than iOS at the moment. If N9 actually supports android apps, it would affect Windows Phone sales. This would affect both Microsoft and Nokia if Windows Phone is their future

But until a Windows 7 device comes into production, Nokia needs to grab attention and sales. Here comes the N9 with yesterday's hardware, a spanking new awesome yet underrated OS (Its Nokia who failed to realise the potential in Meego. Hence they underrated it and put it below crappy Windows Phone.) And to add spice, the Alien Dalvik promise. I feel its just a marketing ploy. Anyone who has been avidly watching Nokia's recent activities wouldnt blame me.

Again, this is just my point of view. So if any of you feel I'm wrong, correct me please. Dont bash me.
I'm in favour of Meego though not in favour of Nokia anymore.
And I'm still using N900 as my primary phone. I dont own an adroid device or an iOS device. Have used both. Hate iOS. Android looks pretty but inefficient memory handling. I love my N900 though the Galaxy S2 is tempting.

So, Nokia, bring it out! I'll believe it when I see it. Till then bye!
 

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