I did not. Nor did I mean they were available, but that it would have been obvious that they would become available soon. I see no reason 2 years ago to not foresee today's hardware today. I, for example, foresee 1.5 GHz for 2011. They already exist, but are not available. With OSs becoming increasingly clunky, it's bound to go up.

Let's not forget N900 has a 1GHz CPU, throttled down for thermal and live expectancy reasons.

Which is, IMO, enough. Let's not forget N900 doesn't have a full day autonomy. When used, it expends its useful battery lifetime (starts at 80% with overnight drop and ends at about 30%, as I want to make calls until the night).

I rather look forward to that, too

OMAP3430 was demoed in Feb 2007. I'm thinking end of sprout rather than beginning.

This may work for you. And me, it would work for me too. But this is a thread about MeeGo making it, and by making it it has to do more than cause a few nerds to go wild. It needs to sell en-masse, and it will never outshine Apple not because it's not as sleek or as nice, but because people will keep upholding IP4 as the pinnacle of design as a matter of principle and history.

Also, IP4 is quite simplistic. That's their key, simplistic and elegant. Be more simplistic and you look like stone age displaced.

To beat the fruit you need not one device, you need a name to rival Apple in design, and Nokia couldn't do this in its glory years. Frankly, it still can't. They're ugly. They have their charm and their Nokia look, but the devices themselves are ugly.

E.g., N900 is thick and bulky. Also, the plastic kickstand and cam cover makes it look like a copy. I like bulky because I want the keyboard and battery+keyboard+screen don't get much thinner. I love it, as bulky as it is. But let's not kid ourselves. Beauty contest it's not. And same goes for UI.

Yes, when? Maemo can't edit a spreadsheet. And it's not a new affliction, either.

IMO, an optimistic view. I don't see MeeGo in any boxing matches, unless you count Muhammad Ali vs The Nerd a match.

You see MeeGo spreading like the plague of small devices, but Maemo had years and has spread to precisely what had no choice. I'm closer to seeing my next TV run iOS than MeeGo. Actually, my next TV will probably run a slim Linux, that's open, free, non-animated and fast. Actually, that's what my TV runs now, if you believe the about box.

My problem is that I'm not all that optimistic even of MeeGo would be magical. And, let's face it, thus far Nokia has managed to get less out of OSs this far, not more.

To be frank. I'm hoping to skip this whole puberty of mobile platforms and by the time I upgrade N900 I'd get an x86 and install whatever I want. Man that'd be sweet.