I think you're referring to THIS:
http://developer.android.com/resourc...-versions.html

As you can see, it's really rare to find devices on 1.5 or 1.6. Very rare. Meanwhile, MOST Maemo devices (770, N800, N810, N810 WiMax Edition) are still stuck in Diablo (Maemo 4) or older, since Nokia saw fit to drop all support for everything made previous to the N900 once it put out the new device. If you want to compare newer devices to newer devices, the N900 hasn't had any upgrades to the OS since it came out (updates, but nothing major). Android upgrade support varies from manufacturer to manufacturer, but it appears you're almost certain to have at least version 2.2.x or 2.3.x on most devices. Both are more recent and have been successfully updated more than the N900.

I'm not sure where the N95 comes into the picture at all, though. Have you been able to watch Flash on your N800 or something? Tell me how you did it--I've not been able to do anything beyond using MyTube to download the raw FLV videos.

Here's the important thing, though: can you buy applications for the N900 and expect those apps to follow you onto any new Nokia devices? I know I BOUGHT that navigation kit for the N800 (the car mount, GPS module, software, etc. and it wasn't cheap). Sure, the license carried into the newer OS2008 Wayfinder app but after ONE update, they didn't bother updating the maps any longer and the application was effectively working but with old data, it becomes increasingly useless.

When I bought apps/licenses on my old Droid (even back when it was running 2.1 way at the start), that stuff remained with me the whole time I kept doing upgrades (now on 2.3.3) and even on my other Android devices because they were tied to ME... not to the device, OS version or even the manufacturer of my hardware. It's been a far better experience, at least for me.

Also--my Motorola Droid is still working spectacularly after a year and a half of owning it. PLUS--I got Flash 10.2 working on it. What does your N800 have? What does the N900 have? Just things to consider, is all I'm saying: think platform and how competition between hardware using a common platform might be a big advantage. Even Apple's ecosystem can't claim that. They lack that diversity and it helps to make better products.

http://developer.android.com/resourc...d/screens.html

Which apps are you talking about specifically? I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab (7-inches) and a Nook Color (running Android 2.3.3, also 7-inches) and I don't think I've run into any applications that can't run or look malformed with the exception of only The Weather Channel app (but that application actually looks malformed even on my normal Motorola Droid's small screen--it seems they broke the application even since they updated the app to version 3.x). Let me know if you can show me some examples, otherwise I'm not sure I can believe you, based on my own first-hand experience.