I don't disagree with you completely, I'm not a massive fan of Symbian, though before the N900 all my phones were Symbian since the first S60 device, purely because despite the rubbish performance and constant crashing, I could forgive them because the handsets were so far ahead of anything else. I think with MeeGo and specifically MeeGo/Harmatten, which will both have the same UX, we can see that Nokia are planning a "big reveal", and I think, like the tablet UX it will prove to be very interesting.

I think both hardware and software wise, the N900 is probably the smartest smartphone to ever have existed. So from my perspective they're on the right track.

I think Android being tried and tested is a bit misleading, I've used many Android handsets and the only thing I've been impressed with and would like to see on Maemo/MeeGo is live wall papers And I've actually been pretty unimpressed with performance.