did qgil said something to this topic in any of these threads? cant see him anywhere and just wondering...

It's not easy to build good phones but there could be other options.. More specifically, it seems like HTC doesn't really care what OS is shipping on their devices, as long as it sells. I wonder if a company could enter a partnership with HTC and do the meego hardware adaption for existing (or soon to be released) HTC phones. Clearly, if there is a demand for meego phones, such a partnership would generate value. The question is how HTC and the partner company would capture this value.. maybe they could sell the meego variant of the HTC phones for a premium price, start their own meego-app store, or something like that (?).

Nope. (I did a search for qgil in Find Post by User, and he's posted nothing since December.)

The phone almost nobody wants at a price nobody would be willing to pay... and HTC able to create the web/software infrastructure that Nokia couldn't... Sorry, I really can't see HTC going this route unless there's a sudden demand for phones that run Kismet. It certainly wouldn't be available in America... which carrier is going to subsidize a phone with complete user access to the code?

You're going to see MeeGo on the newest craze, tablets, where it makes more marketing sense. There's no scenario for now where desktop Linux comes to the phone. (Although as I recommended to someone else, pick up a Viliv N5 and put Linux on it and you're pretty close to an upgraded N900) Once the majority of cell phone users are using smart phones in a few years' time and mobile processors have improved in performance and power consumption to rival desktops, then you'll see a demand for a more serious cell phone OS. Of course, by that time Windows and probably OS X will be ported to ARM....

I think Microsoft already announced that the next Windows OS will be ARM compatible.

Last fiscal year, Nokia spent almost $4B on research. It's almost incomprehensible that they couldn't get an OS built on linux and QT out the door with that kind of funding. If Nokia believed it was truly incapable of getting this done, they should have joined the OHA and rolled their own Android build, substituting OVI services for Google's. Or perhaps throwing all of their weight behind Symbian. I could be wrong, but I don't think this partnership is going to stop the decline of Nokia.

It was only first when I noticed the N900 that devices of this size * REALLY * became interesting for me. Shiny mobiles was nice to have, but this was something else. It was an internet tablet, and yeah it could do phone too.
It was a linux based thingy with a lot of child diseases but I just love it.
There doesn't even today exist anything like it, everything else is just phones, and I don't get the idea why the heck people bother about those clumsy thingys. The N900 is everything else...and a phone.

So, yes, Nokia<-->M$ is an evil merger, that sure brings a sad future for the open sourced device with free communities.

About WinPhone7 (again, from my own oppinion). I have really loved WinCE for many years and worked with it professionally. It's a really nice OS in the bottom there and cannot really be compared with otherwise bloated desktop OS'es developed by M$. WinPhone7 however I don't like for many reasons, one is the DRM crap and other stupid US moral-way-of-life decisions it is based on (like forbidding any application that would even contain a pubic hair in it).

So, finally I'd like to say it is sad that Nokia go this way when they really have the MeeGo coming up...it was SOOO promising.
"SmartPhones" are tech. devices I don't give a *hit about how they look or behave, so I better wait til something else comes up that ressembles the N900 (because the N900 isn't just a smartphone).
I don't care about +50000 apps to download or how * smoooooth* the user interface looks. It just superficial eye-candy.

http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/f...Dbreakdown.jpg

But only 300 Million went to Meego and QT, they spent 1.1 billion on Symbian, in comparison

Thanks for this. I've been unable all day to find a real number.

hey i lost my n900 phone can anyone tell me if i can track my phone .