Have used S60 1st,2nd,3rd and 5th, Symbian has been working great for me as a Smartphone and more, function-wise it does everthing other new platform are doing if not more, just its UI is showing its age, that's why Nokia has been working on it and is giving us the Symbian^3 and more.

To most people, maemo or meego is too much for people who just want a phone + email + web browsing...
IMO, it's like people will pick easy to use and familiar windows or mac osx for their computer, then pick and learn linux

i ll be happy if meego can be installed in n900. end of story!:P

its no surprise nokia are going to be using high end Processors for symbian, after all the new symbian UI is hardware accelerated so its normal progression to use snap dragon and omap3 for nokias symbian^3 devices

i want to have more cores instead of more mhz..
i would love to have a Cortext A9 in dual core configuration..

totally agree. More cores more speed in processing task, consume less battery and less heat. Also more RAM. But why Symbian getting 1GHz high end CPU and not their flagship devices?

Symbian should be good enough with 400MGhz low end Cortext A8 since it is not a super mobile computing device like the top end. Most people buy Symbian because of the ease of use and not caring about the spec

Why in gods name will you want snapdragon. The n900 hardware set up destroys snapdragon. Try playing a 3D game with snapdragon, GOOD LUCK. Everything is built in where as the n900 has dedicated GPU and CPU. Snap dragon is like a computer with the GPU built into the motherboard using memory from the RAM lol.

the snapdragon will win in processing stuff but as soon as u put graphics in the picture its gonna lag. if the N900 ran on snapdragon there would be a lot more complaints about the speed and NO 3D HARDWARE RENDERED GAMES

just think of it as a N97 running at 1ghz but no 3D graphic pretty much the same thing as it is now lol just faster. How crap. I would only buy a snapdragon device if the GPU in the processor was disabled and it had its own GPU but then whats the point of using it

Neither Android is "super mobile computer device", the Mhz game is for marketing more than pratical.
Symbian has always been used from mid-end to high-end. The N95 was the phone with best specification at that time, and that's why it was sold a lot.
S40 is Nokia's low end not running Symbian, but they can sitll brand it with Vertu and sell it at rocket high price

symbian, even with some wizzed up graphics, will fly on a 1ghz snapdragon. I think the highest spec symbian phone right now is 600mhz arm9(non-cortex)

Omnia HD runs a cortex A8 like the n900

It's a shame that even tech blogs are confusing processor hertz with type and # of processors.

I guess I could just add the 600 and the 430 and say my N900 has a 1030!

But all in all, it depends on code implementation. More now than ever.