So excuse a rather naive question:

My understanding is that MeeGo on the next device is still for all points and purposes Harmattan - which is 'Maemo6'.

The device after the next one will run 'real MeeGo'.

If that's true...and since Nokia never announces if a replacement OS will be able to be run on legacy devices - won't the Harmattan device be the most dead-end product ever invented and buying it will be only of interest to the hackers (again?) as no work will continue on Maemo5/6 after the device comes out.

I thought the Harmattan device was going to be the first device that was really going to be pushed to the mainstream - if so, isn't it rather deceptive (read: lying) of Nokia to release a phone and say that it is running MeeGo whilst knowing that that is just a re-branded name of a Maemo distro and that following devices may well be running an OS that can never be ported back (hello Maemo 5 for N8x0, hello MeeGo for N900?)?