I'd agree. If you like how it works now...not having Maemo6/MeeGo/etc doesn't really matter.

The only thing that is a bit 'odd' here is Nokia's inability to step and once and for all say if the N900 will be able to run MeeGo or not.

In fact there have been such apparent hesitations at each major transition: maemo3 on the 770, maemo5 on the N8x0... the final answer was always 'no'.

Which once again brings me back to how I, personally, view Nokia: I really like the hardware but I am very disappointed in how they manage the software side.

So, once again personally, I'm rather thrilled about the MeeGo development and the possibility of seeing a Nokia-quality-branded tablet running a software co-developed with Intel.

it matters because you paid 600euros and the item is being replaced after 2 months(it was available in december for someone that says its been 4 months in stores). its like buying a new mercedes car the latest model and after 2 months its being replaced with another model. what nokia is doing is not illegal but it does suck.

But the thing is...just because another model is coming out...doesn't effect the functionality of your existing one.
If you like your N900 now you'll like it in a year as well won't you?

good methaphor. but it is wrong. If you buy a new merc the next model can be announced the next day... and after you have bought the car and start it first time inside the car shop, it becomes couple thousand dollars/euros cheaper.

million dollar question: what is the replacement for n900 you are talking about? do we have concrete device or are you just acting silly?

Replace the model numbers, and this was the same arguments that many people used for the N810 and the dead-on-arrival Diablo update. Once that came out, nothing else really got updated. Skype? Gizmo? Rhapsody? MicroB? The OS?

Nothing got updated some 13 months afterwards. Did I complain? Hell yes. Do I complain to this day? Yep, on some days like it just happened.

But you know what? My N810 still works just fine. I still use it. I get community based apps that are better than some of the original apps - Tear beats the pants off of MicroB, imho.

So yeah, whine away. Get angry. Start a few petitions. Request that the N900 be removed from the stores. It's happened in the past. Nothing happened by whining.

Get over it. Sounds evil, but I've been there too. Enjoy what you got now. Nokia got one on you. They got me twice - 770 and the N810. I didn't pull the trigger on the N900. And yet I'm still hanging around... thinking about what's next.

Same thing as Nokia. Do I like their "start, stop, restart, drop" method of software support and continuation? Not one bit.

And to be 100% truthful, a big part of me wants to point fingers, laugh at you guys. Real hard. But know what? There's no use in that either. Stick around this community - for however long it'll remain and enjoy your phone. It works just as great today as it did before these announcements.

Cooler heads prevail. And it's not all known quite yet.

I find it hard to believe that "Maemo 6" won't find its way to the N900 as well, I think its coming. The official or the un-official way

I have faith in you hacker-crazies in this wonderful community!

Either way, I'm changing phones once a year these days anyway, so I don't think I'll be pissed off if I need to change to the next device. And I think that in a year's time, the N900 will have evolved dramatically from what it is now.

I have been using Palm products for several years and one of the many benefits of PalmOS is that there are thousands and thousands of applications for it. If N900 is the only device of its kind (and even abandoned by Nokia), it will never get even close to other platforms. And hardware without good software is dead hardware.

wrong. Qt4.6 gives Maemo5 really big opportunity. you can get any Qt -developed (Meego, symbian, ....) app to run in Maemo5 in best case only by recompiling it.