I think this is the place where Meego could potentially make inroads. Android has turned out to be a difficult OS to customize. If a vendor wants to make their own customizations (Motoblur, Garminfone for example) they end up behind the curve and it makes it hard to sell. Customers also get frustrated that they can't get the latest updates.

Now, whether Meego can meet that dream is a question, but it does seem that it is going to a place where the UX can be customized and separated from the lower layer that does the heavy lifting.

Quipper8...If that come true. Meego would be a success, apps and services would grow fast and the competition within "different" meego would gain the customers as well as the vendors in the same way compatition against other os does.

and with a qt ui framework somewhat separate from meego-core they will be able to reduce fragmentation across device types and across vendors. Of course there will still be some, but hopefully less than android.

Customers are starting to get unsettled about the android fragmentation situation. Same manufacturer they bought a phone with 1.6 is releasing a phone with 2.1 and yet 2.2 is out. Crazy situation.

it remains to be seen whether all of this wil happen, but I think it is a good plan and I think it is possible, just comes down to execution, timing, and luck

This is very general but it's what I see as necessary: http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com...ile-arms-race/

Did i get the idea that beter power consumption and long lasting battery will be the main differentiator in the smartphone mobile space ?

Either I read it wrong, or your usual analytical process simply petered out too soon at the battery level Texrat.

The iPhone has shown to some extent that many people (if not most) learn to live with short battery life. While that is certainly not where mfrs want to go - and a longer battery will be a differentiator - I don't think that will be a BIG differentiator.

The real difference must be in how well a service the phone provides and how well it integrates the different aspects of mobile computing. Integration is the key. Do I know what that well integrated process looks like - no idea at all. Thats where I am looking for to these companies to come out with a brilliant or well executed idea.

If meego with intel cpu is adapted to run Framework 3.0/x86 applicitations, This will make it much more easy for devs to quickly learn and make apps plus the best mobile os

I think Meego is going to do well. There is no question.
1. It is the right direction - mobile computing
2. It is new. It is the opposite of symbian. It is for the future hardware and integration of the hardware.
3. It is built for touch. We all know the story about symbian, and the experience between E71 and N97. It is hard to convert a non touch OS to a touch OS. Symbian is probably the best OS, but worse for touch screen.
4. Maemo/Meego is actually liked by Eldar. This means everyone has a chance to like it, even non Nokia supporters. I think it is hard to have iphone people to like a Nokia OS. This is very important and it is the proof that meego has something different yet also something better.

The current UI is bad, especially when comparing to Windows Phone 7 software, simply heaven and hell. However, it is the right direction, and it is still better than the first iOS. The right direction is above everything.

Eldar also said that the actual Nokia version of Meego is better than the tablet version. For me, Maemo 5 is not there yet, but so very close to the best mobile OS. All nokia needs to do is make a more complete version of Maemo into Meego, together with Qt, it will be the best. Let's wait and see.

http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/MeeG...e-a_12322.htmlMeeGo seems quite promising already check this

better API docs than Qt?

http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Portal:SDK

http://doc.trolltech.com/

One thing that article mentions;
the Sunspider Java benchmark scores better than Nexus One (Froyo), but is this the doing of Intel's Z600 or "better" software from MeeGo or both?

Actually that question is very very easily and conclusively answerable. The Aava mobile was designed for the Android platform and later considered adding MeeGo to the equation, the 2.2AOSP could be compiled (like 2.1 was) and the same test could be run to see what the effect each OS has on java performance.

Though this benchmark would be quite useless, just think about it.