Lol, Maemo, for spechul peepel.

No, I still think it is special, for being a customizeable mobile computer where the Iphone and Android phones still have too many limitations. For those of us that write jokes in pseudocode - one of you should feel guilty now - the Maemo phone, this exact model, HAS more potential than the Iphone and by my judgement, also the semi-closed Android platform. For Joe, who might think it's cool to pay cash for an image of a red jewel, the Iphone has a lot more entertaining applications. And no wonder, the Maemo 5 platform is so new, only a handful at Maemo.org can even test it out yet.

Android have a lot of potential for developers, but Maemo has more. For users, Android, Iphones, WinMo are clearly more mature, with quantitatively broader software and hardware alternatives, and more internet resources. Yet, for a small community here, we do have a lot of good software already. We might get a long way if the community/resources grow. Either way, Maemo is moving the market towards more complete mobile computers.

I agree that this platform is not ready for Joe Average as it is today, but it CAN BE. Look at what HTC has done for Windows Mobile over the last two-three years. The OS hasn't changed a bit but regular people can use it now. I think Nokia have benefit from this shift in GUI design, and they have an easier job making the GUI appeal to Joe than they have with old, sturdy Symbian. As far as I can tell from the videos, the GUI is indeed appealing now. I think with a year of feedback from non-TMO users, it might very well be a good phone OS for Joe A. Nokia need to get some software right that wasn't right on the N810, but they have enough routine to know that.