I do like it when people come out saying that maemo is great and that it is going to get better. But is it? Maemo just got canned and will become MeeGo. Or am I the only one that sees another dead end platform that will be merged. Maemo might live on in Meego, but the N900 will become an evolutionary dead end. Nokia has a recent history of dumping phones relatively quickly and I can see it happening again. My carrier dumped the N97 full version after a couple of months, even the N97 mini never got taken on. I see the bigger picture and it is all about market share, Nokia is losing out to everyone becaues symbian is old, slow and not fit to fight the new breeds of phones like the iphone and Android. So it is merging with rivals to gain ground, that rival is IBM and that means a casualty will be Maemo. Two platforms can't be supported never mind three and they haven't killed symbian off because the other 4 squllion handsets they insist on producing still use it.

You can't compare Maemo or this phone to windows, windows was written when there was little development cycle, because there was not a PC in every house, computer science wasn't taught in every school and the micro chip wasn't in everything. AND the most important factor it has to work with over a hundred different manufacturers of hardware when standards meant little, coping with drivers, old and new, bugs, games etc. Maemo on the N900 has one hardware spec. Just one. It came out in a world where everything from your fridge to your watch can go online. It came out in a world where EVERYOTHER device it is competing with has some functionality that it lacks. More importantly, still is lacking.

I like the N900 but for the price and what I use it for, no review told me the SMS support was bad or MMS was ignored. And a community app that requires online connection and connecting to servers is appalling for people who value security and battery life. Compared to HTC, Apple and Android, Nokia has a serious fight on their hands and I don't think they know it, given the N97 didn't have full stop and comma on the keyboard, and the N900 isn't a phone. I don't think they understand it, or at least their developers and designers don't.