Hey, guys.

I just bought an N900 from Hong Kong and glad to be a member here.
Actually, I had posted a few threads here to discuss the Maemo/Android/iPhone devices here before.

And finally, after all, I decided to buy N900.
Not Nexus One, not HTC G3, not iPhone 3GS, not HTC EVO 4G, wihch will be released 2 weeks later.

Here is some of my thoughts:
1.Why not iPhone ?
My answer is because iPhone is just everywhere here in Shanghai. Many buddy here use iPhone. The MAC OS on iPhone is fantasic, you had to admit it, and there are many good applications, such as shazam, etc. and iPhone is more expensive here.

2.Why not Android device ?
This question confused me a lot then. Google Nexus One / Motorola Milestone (Droid) is once to be one of my choices. But at last, I find that Android device is more like a phone. And all the applications runs one a Java Virtual Machine based on Linux Kernel.

Like what I said in the earlier threads, I am kind of like a geek, want to exploer things, and I installed Ubuntu on my desktop PC and notebook. I uses Ubuntu 8.04 as my work enviroment. I like to try different softwares, install and uninstall them. N900 is more like a portable computer, I think thats the final reason that I choose N900.
How about you ?

One thing we had to admit is that from the hardware aspect, N900 is not the leader any more, for example, HTC EVO 4G, which will be released on Jun.4th, has a 1GHz CPU, 512MB memory, 4.3 inch screen.

The only advantage of N900 seems to be :
1. a QWERTY keyboard
2. Maemo is a pure Linux, but Android is just a Linux Kernal + JVM (Dalvic)


Here is some of my concerns and questions, I hope some one can help to answer them :

1. Will N900 support Meego in the future ? I mean officically.
I think when Meego 1.1 released, it will be a hard dicision to make, that we should choose Meego as the OS or stay with Maemo ?

2. What is the Spec of the next Nokia Meego device ?

As I know, Nokia had just released N900 in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
So I think, from the marketing view, Nokia will not release any news about the next generation device which will use Meego (Maemo 6) as the OS. That will influence the sales of N900.
In Hong Kong, Nokia pre-install the PR1.2 on the device to attact more users, in Taiwan, Nokia provide Chinese input method.

Actually, I dont want there to be a fantastic upgrade because I have N900 now. I know it is a kind of selfish.

3.Which one will be the key OS for Nokia , Symbian ^3 or Meego ?
The new released N8 still uses Symbian^3, not Meego.

4. Is N900 just a test of Nokia ? Because Maemo turns to Meego and I am doubting whether Maemo 5 will get fully support in the future. There are only 250 stable applications now.

I think N900 had to be a device that only poplular in geeks because of its OS, etc.. But I hope Nokia could keep putting effort on this, but not give it to Intel.

Thanks !

Some updates on 5/19 :

I tried to search online about the N900, and I find some information about N9-00 (N920), Nokia's next generation Meego device.



Here is some details :
From the image, we can find that N900 and N9-00(N920) is very similar.
I think thats why Nokia set N900 as the develop platform for Meego ARM.

Anybody have other thoughts?