Why 92,000? Why not 90,000 or 95,000 or 100,000. Seems like an odd number to me. But with the, IMO, bad decisions Nokia has been making, it wouldn't surprise me and to be honest I'm not expecting it to be something I'd want (or in other words I sort of expect Nokia to f' up the design in a way that would make me not want it).

No way. 92000 is definitely an even number.

Could be 10% of the total of the N900 sales of 920,000???

shooting flying pigs out of the sky w/ angry birds, are we...
thinking Rich Green became NOKIA's CTO because he was some sort of a Xmas father ridding a sledge drawn by caribou's between the clouds, are we?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISjb9E5A2ls from 0:16 to 0:25:
«we do plan to ship a device from our MeeGo program some time this year and i think it is critically important to deliver that and to get the feedback from that [...]»
from 0:57 on:
«[...]as we evaluate the feedback from MeeGo we are going to consider that feedback and the technology therein for inclusion in our you know next generation technologies or platform technologies that we talked about»
can it be any clearer? of course, if they only sell 92'000 units, it is going to be the end of it.
considering the «[...] it is beautiful and elegant and the hardware is interesting and the software is powerful [...]» part, one can't help thinking NOKIA is rather aiming @ selling 9'200'000 units of it
if the interesting hw includes a keyboard, they sure already have sold one
nearly a million N900s sold edges on miraculous considering the poor prognostics @ release time

i left out the part where Rich confesses that NOKIA was a little late w/ getting Maemo to the (smart-)phone masses (with the N900) and that their plan to drop Maemo / MeeGo in Intel's lap (-tops ¦-)) and wait for WIntel to become de facto standard of the (smart-)phone market and being able to piggyback on that w/ Maemo / MeeGo didn't quite work out.
considering the fu## about and around LostDOS paralysed se7en at the time of its release, it seemed enough to unite Mameo w/ Moblin to achieve that.
m@ke$$h!t being what it is, NOKIA had to step in to "save" LostDOS Paralysed se7en (and get its next platform going )

maybe the only question one might ask is whether it was worth sacrificing Symbian^3 for MeeGo? or merely precipitate its end?
NOKIA usually only had one platform (Symbian, mostly, so far) and it remains to be seen how long they will continue carry m@ke$$h!t at arm's length once Maemo / MeeGo takes off...
in case it doesn't, they have their fall back strategy already in the air
and who knows, maybe they'll include a key combination to "flash" W devices w/ MeeGo

Oh you got your l's mixed up with your a's and it spoilt your fantastic post

Yes. Flash Player, ActiveSync, Ovi Maps, Ovi Suite support, and all those other proprietary bits would only come with the Harmattan device.

I have not seen this announcement. Do you have a source?

I have seen LG announce they will be attending MeeGo Conference San Francisco 2011, and they will be showing devices running MeeGo. However, indications thus far are that these are existing devices LG sells running non-MeeGo operating systems, and they're bringing them to discuss the MeeGo hardware adaptation process with developers, not to announce future products.

MeeGo Conference San Francisco 2011 has an even more developer-oriented feel to it than the first MeeGo Conference. A product launch there would be 770-ish.

Beautiful. The extreme degree to which, and the number of ways in which, that is improbable almost makes it appealing to believe.

Please don't believe everything that Eldar says. He seems to be lying a lot these days.

= Nokia is a total mess now and don't they just love to play guessing games with people !.

Agreed!!! but, there are reasons for all the secrecy. Eldar seems to be stating half truths these days.

I don't get why people still believe that nokia or a other company will release a meego device.you guys must be new here because most of us here hear this crap since over a year and nothing happened until now.
just lies,myths,fud, and other **** comes from the nokia side of life.
the fact is that meego will be what this community and our devs will make with it PERIOD
thats all