Reuters article from Nokia World -- http://www.reuters.com/article/techn...4B16IO20081202

From the article:
"In the longer perspective, Linux will become a serious alternative for our high-end phones....I don't see anything in Android which would make it better than Linux maemo." -- Ukko Lappalainen, vice president at Nokia's markets unit

OH SNAP

Good news... But Nokia should keep it open source.

I think with the announcement that Maemo 5 will support "hi-def" cameras and also HSPA, as well as the expansion of the maemo team one could see this coming. Just due to the nature of data radios support for HSPA and WCDMA also probably means support for GSM as I don't think you ship a device that is 3G only.

I'll take a N97 running maemo any day

At 640x360, tho'? I wouldn't unless they were also ready to enable all those Ovi, etc. services on Maemo as well. And honestly, I'd be surprised if the big ones like Nokia Maps or the Music Store weren't planned for Fremantle (I haven't dug deep into what Fremantle is bringing so forgive me if this is already known).

But yeah, that N97 with Maemo should have some new super OLED 1024xWhatever screen with it, too.

Perhaps the maemo5 device will be a N-series smartphone. Maybe it'll become the N98?

I hope Maemo5 is more open than the current Maemo version! I feel like there are too few applications ported to Maemo armel already! It would be much better if debian or ubuntu programs that are compiled in armel to work on Maemo without having "special" Maemo binaries.

Maemo 5 (Fremantle) will be over 80% open source, from the lowest levels up; with the (less than) 20% being high-level UI differentiation.

With regards to running existing armel binaries, see the various Debian efforts which run normal Debian armel apps alongside Maemo, or even Mer.