can post a video of it in youtube? would like to see how is it's UI and features

I suggest the MeeGo forums is place to ask this question (As it has already been answered!) - pop over there and say hello. The answer will not be a simple yay or nay though

You joke, but it's what people expect now, especially for US$500. A smartphone doesn't work unless it works with the rest of the world, and the rest of the world is changing.

Expected modern smartphone functionality (iPhone, Android):

- Device is able to run evolving content and applications for a few years.

N900 functionality:

- Device stops being able to run evolving content and applications rather quickly, because it does not evolve with them.

I'm seeing this already happen with web-based videos, which are increasingly unable to play on the N900. There's a good chance the Meego port won't solve this, and neither will the alternate browsers available.

Yeah, unlike the iPhone, which has been running Flash videos smoothly all the time. Now I understand why it's so popular.

Nokia VP said the other day via Twitter that there will be a flagship Nokia MeeGo device by the end of the year.

There's really very little to see right now - virtually all of the applications are just placeholders with no real content or function. The UX isn't the Nokia UX either, just a standard out of the box MeeGo UX. It's also quite slow at starting applications (even when they have no real function!), probably due to the lack of any ARMv7 optimisations (a version with ARMv7 optimisations has been targeted for release during Week 33, or about now/next week).

A quick search of YouTube revealed the following videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CEL3qryAQg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtQsOb6mO0A

As I say, not much to see right now. Also many basic features are missing - you can't even power off the device you have to pull the battery to reboot it!

The important thing however is that Nokia are delivering on their promise to make MeeGo available for N900 and the current method of testing MeeGo on N900 is totally non-destructive, which is nice (maybe in future a dual boot menu will become available, who knows - the less often I plug cables into my N900 USB port the better!)

That would be the Harmattan/Maemo6 version of MeeGo - I'd be very surprised to learn that "true" MeeGo for Handsets is anywhere near ready for a prime time release this year, based on the development code that is available.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAtS5EUVAZ4

this was posted today by 'someone'

Looks uber slow but I guess it's okay for unstable release ...

atm. what we have seen of Meego OS its not that great. Maemo still is better. Ofcourse MeeGo will improve alot but still Maemo will not die. The apps created for Meego will most tjhe time work on Maemo to cause of QT(Mobility) will be supported in both platforms.

Thing is I still dont get why people is so afraid of lacking support of Meego from Nokia. It is a bussines decision and there is alot of reasons for that. It would take Nokia a hell of time to debug and test MeeGo on N900 thats probadly why they decided to not "officially" support it, but as we already have seen Meego is already inofficially supported by Nokia so for those who really want the "Meego UI" they will have it.

And again Core Linux OS is still the same as in the Maemo case its only "another dist" as I see it...

But there is other issues that make me affraid and that as far as i know TI has for example not fully open sourced the GFX drivers. IS Meego preview even using HW accel GFX? Can this be a reason it will not be supported on N900. I mean Meego will only accept open drivers?

and for those who want shitty adobe flash Is that fully opened!?

We can only hope flash will die anyway that. Its time to progress faster on HTML5 instead (and ofcourse open video codecs)