s/maemo/maemo.org/

Maemo (capital M) is Nokia, maemo.org (lowercase m, .org) is not.

It's hard to believe that Nokia will ignore the N900.
The Maemo 6 device will be shipped in arround 8 months?
Here is a mass of users who didn't get their N900 yet and still waiting for it.

Nokia is not so high in business that they can "afford" a lack in customer support right now.

In Italy, n900 has never arrived in telephone shops. The only place you can find it is Nokia shop. IMO things are just starting to get interesting around here.

Well said!

just a tip for people that might be feeling screwed by nokia: sell the n900 and buy something else that suites your needs.

like someone else said, dont make your life so terrible. you should enjoy the device. if a cell phone is making you start thinking about plots, conspiracy theories and boycots over a device that is working perfectly fine something is clearly wrong...

and it is not with the phone.

um ... I don't know why you guys are so sure it will come out in 6 months even I do not know either. Making software is not something easy enough to say 'it's gonna finish in ## of months'.

By the way, don't you guys ever see Qt4.6 is in beta on N900? And did you see we ever slow down the progress on M5? You can check here: http://maemo.gitorious.org/

For M6, you can even check the code here: http://qt.gitorious.org/maemo-6-ui-framework

It's pretty open. Why said you guys being ignored when we post day-to-day progress there? :-)

Thanks, that's exactly my point.

I've finally gotten around to using upper and lowercase for the name appropriately after a few months, but how's a random joe off the street to have any clue that maemo.org ("maemo") isn't the same as Maemo, ergo part of Nokia? A big subtitle next to maemo.org in the header banner "maemo's not Maemo"?

Well, there's no "maemo". Just maemo.org and Maemo.

If Maemo is supposed to be a mobile Linux distribution, it must be possible to always try to run newer stuff on older hardware. If a program like a 3D desktop requires more powerful hardware, the old users should just be able to opt out of installing it, just like we can choose between Gnome and Xfce (and Awesome in my case) on the desktop.

There are lots of improvements that don't relate to processor-heavy eye-candy, and we musn't let these new flashy possibilities be confused with the whole of what a distro is supposed to be.

I think the whole problem is that it's too damn _difficult_ to manage this. It's just easier to focus on single devices. We were lucky to have been able to upgrade the N800. Though some people have disliked it...

Only something like Mer will bring us the support for multiple devices. It just doesn't fit the industry setting to think so wide.

Myself, I bought an N800 6 months ago. It was just what I wanted, for a nice price (450 BRL, 250 USD). There are just no alternatives to it, they are either too simple, or too featureful and expensive, or simply don't actually exist (e.g. Pandora).

I was lucky with my timing. I had no sort of mobile gadget at first. Then I got the N800 in its maturity, and for a good price. Now I'll probably be able to get something else just by the time “step 5” comes by. I hope by then we have figured out how the next decade is supposed to look like!

i was thinking about buying this phone when it first came out but im kind of glad that i held off, especially when my current phone is still on par with the new phones(its 1 1/2 years old).

i would be disappointed if n900 wouldnt be upgradeable to maemo 6 but then again there are a lot in this community that will somehow make it work.

usually a new os means upgraded hardware. sure it might work on the n900 but it may run a bit slower. i would be more concerned if maemo 6 apps would run just as good or be backward compatible on maemo 5 platform.