So I have been on maemo.org since I purchased my N900 the week it was released. It seems to me that everyone was all pumped up on MeeGo and the N9 and I NEVER understood why.

I personally love my N900 and Maemo (it has it's flaws, but no OS is perfect)

What is the big deal about MeeGo? I doubt it will be anywhere near as open as Maemo 5, it won't be as mature as Android/iOS. I never intended on trading in my N900 for an N9, or any phone (well besides this concept: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/20/t...android-video/).

Was I the only person who bought the N900 knowing exactly what it would deliver? When I first heard about the Ovi store I found it to be comical. Before the official release, I saw other developers porting and developing their own applications for the N900 and that's when I knew this was a device I wanted.

The only reason why I post this is because everyone is all up in debate about MeeGo, the N9, and the new thread, "what was your phone before the n900??"

I really need someone to explain to me this appeal for MeeGo.

MeeGo doesn't exist in Nokia no more. MeeGO is supposed to be better and more open than Maemo5

Because it was supposed to be an actual transition away from a skunk works project in Nokia to being the premier platform.

Out of the gate MeeGo is more open. Nokia's "value-add" stuff would be closed, but it would be possible to build stock MeeGo and the device would work.

Nonsense. Android is a black hole in terms of open source efforts, and critically bound to Google. iOS is Apple only.

No, but we always want more, and better.

Meego is our new hope because it's open and since Nokia is abandoning it just looks that much more open to me.

You guys always make Chuck Norris jokes so hear is Chuck Norris commenting on one of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGUcU...eature=related

meego exists with intel?
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/02/int...ctured-at-mwc/

N9?
4" screen (my eyes are old and the N900 is just too many DPI).
Fast... much faster than the N900.
Storage... isn't it obvious?
Keyboard... I am completely unimpressed with the N900's, and this one has (had) a very nicely laid out keyboard (in comparison).
I'm sure there's lots more, but I'm amazed the question was even posed.

MeeGo?
Well, Maemo is dead, MeeGo is its more open progeny, and has the development teams and support of more than one company.

How could you say Maemo is dead when you have a community such as this providing information and applications for older Maemo devices? Especially with the community updates? How it it logical to say Maemo is dead???

Why trade 5 generations of Maemo for some rumored mythical MeeGo that to the best of my knowledge - no one has REALLY seen or experimented with (besides a few cute screens of an alpha/beta).

Saying Maemo is dead is like saying Linux is dead, it is kind of silly. I personally believe that the N900 along with Maemo 5 was released to see what we the people and the developers would do and to push the limits, and we are still pushing the limits with new kernels and drivers.

I haven't really heard any real answers to my questions. "The extra .5" of screen and the lower resolution is better for my aging eyes and it has a faster processor, and more storage, and it is rumored to have a better keyboard!" - Well looks like you read a bunch of leaked articles and made your decision based off of that.

Things I wanted to see it Meego that Maemo5 doesn't have:

1. Full portrait mode
2. More apps... I don't know about you, but there are still many websites that either don't have mobile version or their mobile sites have limited functionality. Although Maemo5 supports QT apps, probably not many companies would bother packaging their apps for Maemo5.
3. Improved stock PIM apps...
4. Better OVI Map and possibly native Google Map app....
5. Flash10 (nice to have but not essential)

For me I look forward to Meego, because I like Maemo5 and believe Meego will be more mature/polished than M5.

What are you gonna do when the demands of the applications become too strong? What are we gonna do when 600Mhz is no longer enough? Yes the N900 is an amazing device that I wouldn't want to replace with anything...now. But with 1GHz+ stock and dual-core processors...in a few years (in months even) the N900 will become obsolete. Maemo is not dead, but its days are counted.

I agree right now nothing touches N900 + Maemo5.
But what about next year - when all the high end phones have dual-core procs and faster graphics, more and better apps?
MeeGo was the hope for future.