could you point out some of the ddetails you have in mind?

Would a 1GHz CPU enable a smartphone to run HD videos smoothly?

a) Video playback is done on dedicated video hardware, not the CPU core. Even the 720MHz OMAP3 CPU is capable of HD decoding. On the other hand, even a 1GHz CPU is unable to do proper HD without hardware assistance.

b) It's unclear what video out will the Maemo 6 device have. If it's the same as the N900, HD is pointless as both the screen and video out can only go 480p.

Yes...we are the guinea pigs of Maemo. Rejoy and wag your tails.

This reminds me of when I rash to purchase the N97 off ebay for $350 thinking it was a great deal and that it was the "top of the line" smart phone Nokia was able to produce. Only to find out 15 mins after paying that the device was the Chinese edition. So I emailed the guy to cancel the order. He initially refused to cancel it because he claimed he "had already shipped the item". Mind you, there was nothing on the page that indicated that the phone was a chinese version. So, I told him if he does not cancel the order, I am calling my credit card to dispute the charge. Then he said, "alright, I will cancel it but I have to charge your 15% restocking fee." I told him "over my dead body"... then he said "Ok, but you have to pay the $15+ ebay fees." I said "Nay, I am going to email ebay to explain the problem and if worst comes to worst you'd have to eat that money because you did not mention anywhere on the listening that the device was a chinese version"... Well, I got my money back. FULL refund.

Anyway, I thought to myself, I would probably wait for another year or so, stick around with my N95, to get a good device. 5 weeks later, I heard of the N900. Read the features, and said to myself... "after all, I don't have to wait that long." I was glad I did not buy the N97 but Nokia should give people a chance to show off their new device before they push a superior one in...

Others already responded with them near the beginning.

Personally I would be surprised Maemo 6 wouldn't be on the N900. Given they are porting Qt4.6 to it and will be available Q1 (in beta now). Maemo 6 depends on Qt4.6 and 4.6 has been shown running quite well on the N900. Right now the only things we know the N900 doesn't have that Maemo 6 "will support" is capactive screens with multi-touch and DRM. And I don't even know if the N900 is incapable of supporting DRM or just not support yet. This is a very different situation than the N8X0 to the N900.

As far as processor speed I don't know, but that's more of a function of battery technology than availability of faster processors.

N900 will be history in 6 months and we were all part of this history-making device. Isn't this just awesome?

as many techies know, if the hardware can support the new os you can upgrade... so if the new n000 is the same as the n900 the we will get it.

i dont really care if n900 gets maemo 6 or not, of course it would be nice but not a big problem for me, a big problem for me is whether apps/games will still be produced for the n900 when maemo 6 comes out, if apps stop getting produced for maemo 5 and n900 i think i should sell my n900 before its too late