Nice comment szopin

I would like to think it's sarcasm?

After all, and as you said, Hardcore NIT fans complained about the the N900 not being a real NIT, and then the N9 not being a real NIT (like the N900!).....

Despite the move from Maemo to Maemo-Harmattan, and some grumbles, everyone here was pretty accepting of the change and where it was intended to go, with the end result being MeeGo.

Mer is essentially progression from Meego, but with a focus on being open in ways that Maemo and Meego never was, both in development and governance.

I find it hard to believe that people on this forum b*tching about Jolla posts either have no clue or simply no memory about the contribution made to Maemo and MeeGo by the very devs and people that are now working on Mer and SailfishOS.

This IS the logical progression and evolution of the Maemo OS as it was heading at Nokia before the burning platform announcement, but open to community involvement.

Enjoy your N900. It WILL die, and parts WILL run out, and then what will you do? Lament the fact there's no alternative? Wish that someone would release a handset to tinker on that isn't Android?

Well why not, Samsung seems to be pushing it pretty hard at the moment.
Well, only Tizen IVI has something in common with MeeGo.

Exactly!

That's why I think Sailfish, Tizen and ubuntu is Super Cool and deserves their own Subs. I think Intel pushing lVl tizen...

With or without infra red.

They are for discussion, or actually, rather flooding speculation... But not for petitions, esp. not in the name of this community.
I just think it's a bad idea to try to force Jolla at this stage. Edit the title to "poll: would you like to have infrared port in your device" and nobody will take offense.

Starting a petition is somewhat overheating. You 'hotheads' need to keep in mind that Jolla did not accept us as 'official' community, yet. I have no problem with people going wild and crazy about the new phone but seriously, a petition? Drive wild, drive crazy, start 3D rendering of other halfs with anything you like, I will happily put it on facebook and in the news to spread the ideas.
We already have a thread brainstorming 'other half'S. Petitions to a company on the other hand are a bit off-topic... on the one hand pointless. Pre-orders might get involved in some unique process for the 'ltd other half' but do not expect to much from it.

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Get FACTS! Maemo is dead its time to move on to forked maemo and that is http://merproject.org, with its family:

* http://www.sailfishos.org
* http://plasma-active.org/
* https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Nemo

and so on, is the future so dont be a childish reactionary maemo fanatic its just ridicilous and non constructive for the community!

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Never happen!
Jolla=cheap HW at a nokia price!

Edit.
Mike, Does Mer have HW support like phone/sms etc?
I doubt it.. Until it does maemo is alive!

I used infrared to control TV. As I have no TV I used it occasionally, twice.

However, every day I use FM transmitter. I need FM transmitter a lot. Device without FM transmitter is just useless for me.

Cant believe there's people getting touchy about Jolla posts. There's usually more people viewing Meego posts than Maemo. It doesn't take a genius to work out that the Maemo community will be entirely dead one day.

As for infra-red..... I couldn't care less. One of the last features i'd be looking for in a smartphone.