Actually, Sachin007 (OP), I don't *want* the old Nokia back!

OK it was better than this new elopmsnokia, but their actual decision-makers never seemed to get or care about OSS tools or us to that matter.

They kept abandoning early adopters (influential customers), platform "projects" and hardware support at the first opportunity.

They had the occasional good idea but no will or drive to do everything it would've taken to achieve goals.

One half-baked chunky slider early effort at a born-somewhat-trailing-edge Maemo5 phone??? That's all they managed!! Why did they even bother??

Maemo5 wasn't and would never be ready for the great masses because it was never finished... some bright spark deciding to jump sidetrack to a similar but rather different project with the silliest of names (as if "Maemo" was much better...) and partner with a company in whose interest was not to get anything out for the competing ARM architecture...

Still, they could've and should've long ago shipped updated "developer models" with capacitative display and better specs at least... with MeeGo.

So a single MeeGo device may eventually ship in a year's time... maybe it was just some kind of contractual thing ms-elop just couldn't weasel nokia out of!

Sachin007, nokia's gone. Gone for all but those whose employment is currently absolutely tied to the death-rowed Symbian or elop's own favourite microsoft.

Maemo and Meego on nokia devices will only linger on as hobbyist maintenance projects. Nokia's finished as an enthusiast platform.

So what to do?

Hell how do I know!

MeeGo's only hardware backer is Intel, and they're going to trail behind ARM in the most portable mobile devices segment for years to come.

We don't have a single device with fully open specs. We don't even have an obvious clear platform target! It's almost like it's 2004 again, without nokia 770 or Maemo ever having existed! Except that now we know that it can be done and the Qt toolkit is basically ready to roll (!!) and even the GTK (3.0)/Gnome guys are bending round backwards to accommodate mobile devices.

GAWD I wish we had stayed as the good old InternetTabletTalk...

So out of my *** I pull these three wishes:

1) That some f**cking OEM or ARM licensee releases modular developer-oriented devices with fully open specs so Linux can be ported and maintained (a "proof-of-concept" is in their interest, too)

2) Community Qt and/or GTK3 project(s) port fully-fledged mobile environments to that "reference platform"

3) FREED^^^PROFIT???