Pipe dreams. MeeGo is and will be another failure to commercialise FOSS. No Korean company will change it.

If true, this is good news for MeeGo. But I'm a bit worried about Samsung at the moment given its patent problems with Apple, so I'm not sure that they will be our saviour.

If N9 is anything to go by, then NO. Samsung is not dumb enough to deliberately kill their own handsets and limit their market reach. Imagine public reaction to a device like Galaxy Note with software similiar to Harmattan.

Nokia seems to love killing devices ahead of release or even on release day. Samsung will promote it to another Galaxy, hence the name

Hahaha, I think you don't have to wait for that long for Samsung to kill the support for their whole android line. Clock is ticking for android OEM's

At least Nokia is honest about the support.

And look where that honesty got them....hmmmm

Was it honesty that got them there? No, it was symbian and the likes of n97 that trashed the brand. 98 % of people don't even know what Maemo/meego is/was

Software wasn't at fault, it was hardware. S60v5 started on the wrong foot, with no GPU acceleration which caused serious lag (after the wonderful OMAP 2420 devices what the hell was Nokia thinking), low amount of ROM, RAM, and minor crappy manufacturing that was the N97.

Furthermore, such hardware deficiencies killed off N-Gage. It was an amazing piece of software (it had an app store and game center way before Apple), it just lacked GPU acceleration (sucky software graphics).

N900 was a great start at getting back in the game, however Nokia failed to advertize and provide future updates which would improve Maemo 5. Instead, Nokia focused on future iterations. Why dump an OS which was well received, when you could just improve it and release devices. The community brought portrait hildon-desktop instead of Nokia, etc.

I repeat, Nokia has no idea what in the hell they want. Their current failure is only a result of their poor management.

EDIT: They couldn't even bring promised OVI Maps navigation to the N900.

We've gotta get ericsson on this thread! Oh, the irony...

Ok, editting this so it won't just be a party post:

The thing with Bada is that, as far as ericsson makes sure all of us read, Bada is to Samsung what S40 is to Nokia. It's just a nearly-dumb phone OS. If one thinks about it, Android doesn't really go all the way to Mobile Computing, either.

Current hardware on the latest droids, like the one in the Galaxy Tab S2 or in the Atrix, really does make the sound of "Mobile COMPUTER" ring a bell. They definetly have the hardware "balls", let's put it that way, to begin the process of bridging the gap.

...they lack the OS. though. MeeGo could fill those shoes very well, perhaps.

Perhaps Samsung will integrate Meego in to their Samsung Linux Platform?

Perhaps because for MeeGo is alien dalvik aviable and for bada not?

So they would be able to create their own unique device and would be still compatible to all those android apps.