imho, since n8x0 will not be supported in freemantle we will get in the place where 770 is today. Beloved devices which will be abandoned in favour of the newer, faster devices. Sure, some of us will still use them, maybe with mer or debian breathing some new life into them...
but I don't see nokia and or ti going over the complications of releasing drivers to the comunity for a platform that's no longer of interest to them. We got our two promised updates to the n810 (granted nobody mentioned they'll be minor ), nothing to see here, move along.