Old article.. but it seems relevant to our conversation here:
http://www.mtv3.fi/uutiset/talous.sh...go-puhelimeksi
...or in English for the majority of us here.

From as recently as June of 2011, right from the donkey's mouth (translated, mind you):
"Nokia's CEO Stephen Elopin that a lot of interest aroused Nokia N9 is the only MeeGo phone, even if it would become a best-seller. Elop said in an interview in Helsingin Sanomat confident that Nokia's upcoming Windows-based phones will be a success."

So, once again, yes--both Maemo and MeeGo are pretty much dead--especially if you're talking Nokia.

Just a reminder about the "Elop on Helsingin Sanomat: Nokia not returning to Meego, even if N9 is succesful" thread that EXACTLY speaks to my last post to this thread.

And why would he return? Have you used N9? Half-baked OS. Jittery, laggy, you feel like you are being waterboarded most of the time. Microsoft OS is the best NOKIA had on its phones for a long time.

Quit while you are ahead and leave this community.

Just being objective as a user.

What you're doing isn't objective. You're sharing your opinion. At least call it for what it is and not for what you may think it is...

Fair is fair. I'm one of Nokia's worse critics. But at the same time, I think even I come off as more objective than you.

and being a fanboy? what ur windows phone? can u beat my sgs2? or even my N900? lol, i have lumia 710, and its su*k

I have lumia 710 and I agree, the build quality sucks. So I got the 800. Very smooth and responsive. Superb email. Does the basics very well. N9- unreliable, laggy, GPS sucks. Yes, my opinion. And I even bought two N9s, so, yes, I am entitled to my opinion.

N900 is very outdated. Port fell out, but I did like it. In terms of ease of use, lumia 800 beats all of current nokias

You mean you didn't have problems like short battery life, wildly variable battery life, cannot charge up when flat, cannot end call, random reboots, atrocious sound quality, volume jumping, unreliable camera focusing, etc which many other Lumia 800 users are experiencing? You must have got a very lucky one.

@Lumiaman (what a name...). With all your messages you exactly prove, that you rather have no clue about the mobile phones you're talking about, or that you're just here to bash N9 and defend a Lumia - maybe because you couldn't get a N9 or whatever the reason is. Because if you would really own a (or two) N9 you wouldn't write such wrong things. Btw everyone can claim that he/she owns this and that phone.

Lumia is smooth and has more corporate apps than N9 - but that's it. Don't worry, I know all platforms pretty well (well I could just claim that too, but no... I don't). Yes my preference is the N9, but I would never say that Lumia is generally crap. But in MY opinion the GUI and limited features are a disaster - I'm happy though that there are so many platforms and everyone finds a preferred one, if it is Maemo 6 or WP.

And as you say yourself - Lumia does the basics pretty well, yes that's true. But at maemo.org we talk about smartphones and not some kind of feature-phones which pretend to be something different.

So please rather speak in a normal way or please visit a forum with people of your kind and praise with them WP and what a revolutionary, brilliant, super-cool-it-invented-everything phone this is. This is the Maemo community which doesn't need any WP-trolls. If WP is so boring that people like you need to bash around in other forums, you maybe should think about another platform next time you buy a phone.

Therefore let's stop being whiny (incl. me) about platforms and keep the constructive discussion of this thread alive.

For everyone who wants to see intuitive vs. basic features (quote Lumiaman), watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=eHlVOoZKH-k