Last September, Ari Jaaksi told OSiMWorld - and the message was continued into the first Maemo Summit - that Maemo 5 would be released next (i.e. this) year. It would contain HSPA data, high-resolution camera and OMAP3 support.

Now, bear in mind that Nokia aren't in the software business, and it was also stressed that - at that time - they had no interest in licencing Maemo to other parties.

So, Maemo 5 is being released this year (with a clear roadmap including beta releases which has now run out). Nokia don't release OSes, they release devices running OSes. The roadmap for SDK releases has run out and the next item (IIRC) is "Maemo 5 released".

There's also been a wealth of additional information revealed about the device in commit comments, posts from Nokians such as qgil, SDK setup and the leaks.

Nokia haven't announced a device, but we should all have a damned good idea about what it's going to look like, what it's going to run and what features it's going to have. We don't know how it's going to be marketed, and when it's going to be released.

They think it will, and anyway - Maemo Devices is one Nokia department, even if they wanted to announce their device roadmap; Nokia policy says "no". Devices aren't "pre-announced" before the full public launch/announcement.