As long as Android still refuses to do proper multitasking, even though the hardware could handle it, it's IMHO worthless slapping it on a quadcore device with lots of RAM.

Yep it's pretty beefy, but apparently it's not of the same lineage as the N8.
They were planning/designing the thing for about 5yrs apparently.

oh yeah, forgot to mention the pure joy of multitasking on android/wp/ios...if you are a masochist that is...

and 600, 700, 701

Battery technology needs to advance to where multi-tasking doesn't hit the battery as hard as it currently does.

Yep. I just can't understand how Nokia managed to fail so hard with multimedia on the N9, when they already know how to do it right. It's as if the first item on the agenda when designing a new device is 'How shall we gimp this one?'.

Sigh... painfully true....
Hopefully we'll eventually squeeze much more out of the limited silicon we have.
We didn't get that improved codec support that was rumored for 1.2.
Hopefully there's some other way to slot it in, then we'll need to OC the DSP.
I'd be happy with 720p base re-encoded on the fly for native res (may be unreachable).
Most content we'd want to watch would be readily available in that format.
Zero need for 1080p unless we want to output to external screen, in which case we have DLNA + 802.11an.

especially since all the older symbian devices also have a much better gpu/dsp(that older broadcom) than n9 and they came out more than a year before n9...

sad thing for n9...i mean VIA-s dsp plays 720p on 300mhz and the one in n9 can barely play it on 800mhz

For Samsung Galaxy S1:
http://www.mugen-power-batteries.com...9000.html?r=22

and 4 SGS2:
http://www.mugen-power-batteries.com...door.html?r=22

and 4 SG Note:
http://www.mugen-power-batteries.com...door.html?r=22

Do I need to point out to you that Linux and Maemo are two different things? Maemo isn't Linux. Maemo USES a Linux kernel (a tweaked one, at that). MAEMO is a dead distribution. Linux itself, is doing GREAT and will continue to do so because it has been doing the OPPOSITE of Maemo and continues to be maintained and supported. If THAT were to end, then that too would make it as dead and lifeless as Maemo eventually became. MeeGo is slowly going there now too after all of its sponsors and supporters pulled out of it... But you won't want to admit it, I know I know. It's tough.. Remember, the first step is ADMITTING there is a problem.

How's that black and white TV working out for ya? What? Everything went digital? Not supported anymore? Well... shoot! What good is THAT hardware now?

Just saying: It counts for a lot more than you seem to understand.

Got one better for you, although I'm sure the die-hard Maemo fanbois will cry out, "WE DON'T NEED NO NEW CPU JUST MAEMO!!!!11!!!1!!111!!!~~~" as we've been witnessing here. heheh I'll bet "proper multitasking" wouldn't help efficiency here nor native-code vs java .

ARM’s Super-Efficient New Chip Can Get "Years of Battery Life"
From the article:
The Cortex-M0+ chip is capable of 32-bit processing, measures 1mm x 1mm, and is based on Flycatcher architecture. ARM says it's the world's most energy-efficient design. It's even more efficient than the 8- and 16-bit MCUs it's replacing.

PS: For the hell of it, I tried looking for a local Linux group to attend close to work and found one right around two or three blocks away. I attended the a meeting yesterday for the first time and despite all the stuff they INTENDED to cover (usb distros/python/etc)... MOST of the time people were asking me what I was carrying on me (my Nexux, 7-inch Galaxy Tab, etc. and found out one of the people running the meetings also had a Nokia N800.. yes, we highfived and admitted Nokia failed on us) instead, the meeting turned into a big question-fest asking me about these devices and about Android and I even ended up dropping into BetterTerminal Pro to show them the underlying Linux for Android and showed them how I can still program BASH, awk, sed and ssh out to my Linux system at home from the terminal to do more stuff and did all this on my bluetooth keyboard and so on and so on. If that's the genuinely inquisitive and welcoming reception Android gets at a Linux meeting, why are people so generally hostile here on Maemo about Android? It seems to me that thy were genuinely interested to see what can be LEARNED from it rather than how to dismiss it. Strange stuff, Maemo bois. Strange stuff.