It seems to me that many people are thinking of MeeGo way too much. As the LG GW990 will be the first MeeGo device it still is moblin device with lg's own gui with a new name. Much like Maemo6/harmatta/Nokia's release of MeeGo will be maemo. The fact that Nokia, Intel and Linux foundation just got together and they haven't even got in bed yet. When harmatta release will be out it really doesn't matter if the meego koalition of releases that has been done or will be done has the same kernel or not as nothing else will be but the name and Qt framework. It's much like saying that debian and opensuse are the same thing as they have pretty much the same kernel.

I wouldn't expect hearing nothing but big promises about meego for year and half from now because that will be the time that nokia and intel will need to get married properly. Sad thing is that it seems that nokia puts us to look for the future again.

The question is that will Nokia have enough energy to support N900 properly. Wether N900 will have harmatta or not. Nokia isn't that great when dealing software development, but big company like nokia should be able to support multiple versions of os releases (not saying that they will be).

I like my N900 and I think the major problem with that device is not the software (which is pretty buggy) but the hardware, you can't use n900 more than 2 hours and then battery is drained. And now I'm talking about real usage, not that my phone would drain it's battery by lying on table.

Wether or not n900 will have MeeGo OS or not I don't think it will be such a huge deal as new software will be coming and will be mostly compatible thanks to Qt. I never truly liked maemo as it was just nokia's own toy and no one else was never interested or able to get it. Nokia never said that they might start licensing it so that other vendors would be able to use maemo. I don't trust nokia when it comes to software but now that they have other vendors with them I have little more faith in MeeGo. It is left to be seen if it will ever get anywhere or not.