Sorry for my poor english but I must say something about this endless discussion about Meego not official supported by Nokia :-)

I dont get why people complaining that mush about Meego not official supported on N900 :-S We should be glad that N900 atleast has SOME support! Cause I am sure Nokia doesnt do that mush money on this phone. The fact is this phone is for linuxgeeks. It already IS the best geekphone so far :-) Android has not a chance if you prefer openess, and not a broken Linux as in the Android case.

Imho, I dont care at all if Meego will be officially released. I love maemo OS :-) There is no big difference between Maemo and Meego both are Linux only different "dists".

* Mostly the same UI toolkit (QT/Gtk)
* Linux kernel and probadly most of the backend librarys like DBUS and so on is probadly the same. Except Maemo version of linux is optimized for ARM.
* The OSS community will for sure release a version for N900 cause thats how the OSS works...

Difference:

I think (but not sure) that the linux kernel for meego is heavy optimized for the new embedded Intel CPU:s atm. and that maybe a reason why Meego will not be official supported on N900 cause it is ARM based. And again it costs alot of money to support it by Nokia. Ofcourse Apple can support phones that is old but there is a BIG difference why they can support it:

* They for sure make more money on every sold Iphone. The volume is alot bigger than in the N900 case. The HW on Iphone is not that good that makes even more income for Apple.
* Theyr making money on appstore.

* In the case of N900 most of development is OpenSource. And yes I no another reason is Ovistore still sucks to and I dont know i nokia make money on it?

Another reason could be: Maybe Nokia has already decided to only make tabletbased Meego products in the future and dropped the plans for more Meego based "smartcomputers with integrated phone" and instead continue on Symbian on that segment (which ofcourse is bad but still bussiness is bussines :-( For this reason they want to use as much code as possible for future devices. I they alkreadyu has decided to drop ARM on more advanced computerproducts there is no reason for them to make "useless code" based on old arm arch.

Another reason to drop geekphones is the operators dont like phones that is "hackerfriendly" like N900 soo that could be one of the reason we will never see a fully supported Open Source based smartphone like N900 in the future :-( (I really hope I am wrong!!!

And dont forget the fact, that many people here complains like childs and dont have a clue how bussines works. Infact all this complains also may scare away Nokia employers working with the OSS community and thats more sad than if wee will se bloated crap flash 10.1 or similar on N900.

Ofcourse we should complain but still we should do it in a good way :-)

One thing for sure Nokia should support on N900 is a good OviMaps! (I dont know why this is a problem isnt OviMaps written in QT? would be that hard to backport from symbian phones :-S