I've held out little hope for Meego just based on the speed of development of Maemo vs Android.

If you go all the way back to the N770, where I started, OS2005 was released in November of 2005. If you start with the N900 and Fremantle, that was released around October 2009.

With Android, 1.0 was released in late September 2008 with 7 more releases (1.1, 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3) between then and December 2010.

Apple, which Nokia seems to be more like with their sole-vendor of the phone approach, has had *29* releases (including minor patches) for the iPhone OS since it was released at the end of June, 2007. Number 30 is due out next week!

It is like Nokia snapped on the clogs and is just going to plod along at a leisurely pace until someone comes up to them and lets them know the race not only started, but you already lost!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history

I love my N900, chunky little beast that it is. The USB port finally broke off last December and I just now got around to disassembling the unit and soldering it back on. However, it has been relegated to portable, wireless computing toy. I bought an HTC MyTouch 4G when the N900 broke and couldn't be happier.

While I will keep the N900, I already see it as the spiritual successor to my old Newton Messagepad. Another device I loved and lament why the company that birthed it was so inept in raising their baby and finally just gave up as it hit that awkward adolescent phase.

Meego had such potential.