What does this mean for us N900 users in the paragraphs below. Are we not going to have any more upgrades, no more new programs and just be left out there??? Should one keep his N97 since there will be upgrades and lots of programs for it????

"It was announced in May 2010 that the Nokia N900 will be the last mobile communication device running the Maemo 5 operating system, which will be replaced by MeeGo. Nokia will continue to support the N900 with updates when necessary.

While transition to the succeeding MeeGo operating system is possible, this is mainly of interest to developers rather than consumers, as it not officially supported by Nokia. There has been some interest within the user community in working on backporting MeeGo developments to Maemo for the N900, and this places it as being an interesting device for people within the wider Debian and Ubuntu communities more than consumers."

Thanks,
Bobby

Bobby, welcome to the forums Please search for the forums as this topic has more than 10,000 posts on it all over the place It has been discussed and finalised. There will be no official Meego upgrades for the N900 and what we will have/already somewhat have is a developer edition for testing and application development purposes. The only complete N900 OS is Maemo 5. Nitdroid is also close to having a fully functional Android 2.2 FROYO port on the N900 (it already works, but with a few significant bugs).

Finally, as for the N97, the N97 remains one of the Nokia's worst devices in terms of modernity vis-a-vis other devices along the same time. The device performs lots of functions, but remains buggy, very weak Processor/RAM/GPU (non) specs and no future in sight. Get rid of your N97. I did that 2 months after owning it. It was not a horrible phone, just horrible compared to what else that was out there.

THIS THREAD SHOULD BE CLOSED AND DELETED

There are several long threads about this already, though what it means is very probably there will be an N900 build of MeeGo, but it wont be supported by Nokia officially.

I'd say there will almost definitely be a PR1.3 for the N900, but beyond this I get the feeling any further development is highly unlikely. You wont see any new applications from Nokia for the N900, only bug fixes and maybe a minor enhancement here or there.

Having said that, it's relatively easy to get scratchbox up and running - even easier to install QT Creator, from there your imagination is the only limit. (Fine print: Knowledge of programming not included)

Thanks guys I appreciate it. I didn't realize all the other traffic on this subject. I will look next time as I usually do on other sites. It just makes me wonder if I might have wasted my money. I really like the phone but like my old Psions it will no long be supported, but one could say, again like my Psions to some extend after all this time they still have features that no other PDA have today. Maybe my N900 will be the same ahead of its time and in to th future.

Thanks,
Bobby