Hi everyone,

I have received my own N900 for christmas, and I have been very happy since. I downloaded quite a few applications, toyed around with root access, and use its excellent web browser (what have you done Mozilla!) everyday.

I do not see any reason to be concerned about MeeGo.

First, what I have in my hands is a mobile phone. As with almost every mobile phones that I have owned (all from Nokia since my second one), I kept them for about two years before changing to a newer/more powerful phone. This current phone lacks some features that I had in my previous Symbian phones, that's a fact. But we know that there is a Nokia team working on it and that we should soon receive an update, hopefully with some feature updates.

This device is also a tablet, and as such it has an OS, drivers for this OS and so forth. The OS for the N900 is Maemo 5. Even before the announce of the MeeGo, I do not recall reading anything about a backward compatibility of Maemo 6 for the N900 tablet. So whether it is Maemo 6 or MeeGo 1, it does not make much difference.

On the application side, we know that Qt 4.6 will be soon available for Maemo 5, and that the MeeGo development environment will also be Qt 4.6 based. Therefore it gives a rather good feeling that in the future, cross-platform apps will be quite common. It won't matter if they are open-source or commercial, as the difference will mainly be the computing power of the device, and maybe some hardware capabilities.
I personally doubt that a multi-touch application be ever ported to the N900, even if the compiler allows it. But that does not mean that single-touch applications may not be developped and deployed simultaneously to the Nxxx, the N900, and Intel based platforms.

When I bought my N900, I did not expect it to have a software base as large as the IPhone's, or to be the ultimate portable unix machine. There are a lot of limitations to the device, and newer devices will of course get newer applications. I will download the MeeGo development environment as I downloaded the Maemo environment, I will learn how to use it, and if I can use it to create applications that can be installed on the N900, great! If not, well, that is not the end of the world.

I am a happy N900 user, and there are happy N800 users. There will be newer devices as technology evolves. The next N-series linux based tablet-phone may get multi-touch, usb3 (I know i'm dreaming) and an new tech battery that will allow us to surf away from a plug for more than a day. Many tech-lovers will rush to that one and evntually the N900 will join its predecessors in the museum of mobile computing.

To everyone worrying about the N900's future, I would advice to just make the best of it now, as whatever happens next I do not believe that it will be lost.