Although I am the largest fan/supporter of Maemo, the above is not completely true, although we all pretty much knew that Windows 8 was coming, and the Lumia/Windows 7.5 processors would probably not handle the workload or be compatible...

The N9 will live on while these lumias will be phased out early, as are any 1st gen commercial enterprise products...

Microsoft is however promising the world for Windows 8 phones, dual core, huge ram, 16:9 720p, etc...as well as AT LEAST 1.5 years of firmware updates guarenteed....we will see if the 1.5 years of firmware updates come true, if so, this is quite amazing, since no OEMs do this. (Other than Apple with their yearly refresh/possible update)

Now, google does not do this, b/c they are completely fragmented, and iOS does not update as often...I am interested to see if MSFT can make these promises come true.

I am a bit skeptical, but at least they are being honest...I purchased the 770 with first gen Maemo, and then Nokia killed it quickly, no upgrade capability...same with the 800 for my cousin...then the N900 for myself, which Nokia killed with the announcement of Maemo 6 a few months after its release...Maemo community kept it alive...now I have the N9, which was technically killed months prerelease, but we will keep this alive as well...

Lumia can't be kept alive like the N9 though...so to the suckers who purchased it (pointing at one famous troll here), a big Nelson "HaHAA", and hopefully Windows 8 can bring life to Nokia, which still has the best hardware and map support...if they can couple this OS with the best hardware, they have Samsung beaten already (worst quality materials out there).