Originally Posted by archaz

I.M.O. speaking as a lay man with a strong interest in nokia mobile phones and head tech guru for my family. I say maemo 5 is very stable (post PR 1.3 FW) but runs on under powered hardware ie processor and battery. I see little reason to throw good R&D money away by not putting out a maemo 6 decive that is an evolution of the much loved N900. It just seems on the surface to be a no brainer to just make hardware improvements on what has been a well received platform. Even te Americans took notice of maemo 5. I too can see that Meego is not ready but a reved up maemo is and could be done. The maemo UI is comparatively one of the best around and holds it's own. QT not only shows promise but appears to be ready to deliver (check out twimgo and GPodder versions rewitten in QT). I'm disappointed by Nokia people who ran things before Elop came because if OPK could have seen this our present I'm sure he would have pushed maemo development harder. Putting out different form factors and making maemo the primary OS with a view to leveraging QT on Symbian to retain customers and help the transition. Someone with some expertise please give feed back on this babble of mine.