As I said, I have "countless" dead phones and gadgets lying around, all from the early stages of mobile phones and PIMs. It will continue to stay that way.

A bit more serious. The N9 was a nice device, but not in the same league as the N900. The way I see it, the N9 was a "commercially refined" N900. Too commercial to be really geeky, and too unfinished to be a commercial success. Good looking and more practical on a day to day basis, but the N900 was more fun.

As for now my Lumia 800 must be used, then it will also be dead due to whatever gadget that seem cool. Probably a WP8 PureView, possible the 808, but the Galaxy Nexus is also nice. At the top of the list is the Nexus 7 though.

In any case: The Maemo/MeeGo/Nokia (N8X0, 900, 9) endeavour is finished. It is finished in the same way that Palm is finished (got several dead Palm devices). The same way Symbian is (very soon) to be finished. WM, UiQ, all dead, got several of those as well. The end is here. There is no more, time to move on. This has happened several times before, and it will happen again. This is life, get over it. This doesn't mean that from time to time, I take out some old relic, fire it up just to see if it still runs.


A community based development may very well work. It may work just fine, even be competitive with commercial stuff. But there must be a foundation, inspiration and life. For this to happen, a steady flow of HW is needed. This is the single most important point. The only source for this today is via Google. The Nexus devices is just right for this, but there are many others as well. None of the Nexuses needs to run Android. Maybe the Surface can be used?

Here the stench of death is thick. The Sotiris thread? It reminds me of singing "Alice" at some October fest some time ago: "Alice Alice Who the **** is Alice". I mean it's surreal. Who TF is Sotiris?

Whatever, I'd better start looking for some Nexus 7 fan site to troll around in