Ok.I'll say something bit don't start flame war.

For me N97 is "garbage" in term of smartphones.It has too much of issues simply not suitable for current time.
Your assumption is slightly wrong.N9 should be N900's successor.Majority of the review praised N900 but made comment that the OS need some revamp that suits average users.
Another prove that N900 is well received is even though it's widely known that N900 is a testing device there were a lot demand for it.

N9 or whatever Nokia called their MeeGo phone will definitely be a much polished product hardware wise & software wise compared to N97.But the million dollar question is will it be as polished as iPhone & Android based device?

I've included iPhone a s good device because no matter how much I dislike this phone I cannot deny that the OS feels really super smooth.

P/S:Did I mention that I feel iPhone is like high end Nokia 3310?

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Added on December 11, 2010, 3:37 pm
Correction:Alleged spec.
Only Nokia know the real spec for now.
Not even Eldar Murtazin know much about this.

+1

agree with u. even thou N900 is just testing device, it is successful device after all and got demand world wide. with the maemo os an open source application, nokia is finally succeed to created so called "smartphones". and meego would be a complete or finish product of maemo, since the maemo is just a testing device.

and, yeah. N97 is kinda suck man. (ex N97 user) sorry if i offended other N97 users. but that is my feel about N97.

Ok.I'll say something bit don't start flame war.

For me N97 is "garbage" in term of smartphones.It has too much of issues simply not suitable for current time.
Your assumption is slightly wrong.N9 should be N900's successor.Majority of the review praised N900 but made comment that the OS need some revamp that suits average users.
Another prove that N900 is well received is even though it's widely known that N900 is a testing device there were a lot demand for it.

N9 or whatever Nokia called their MeeGo phone will definitely be a much polished product hardware wise & software wise compared to N97.But the million dollar question is will it be as polished as iPhone & Android based device?

I've included iPhone a s good device because no matter how much I dislike this phone I cannot deny that the OS feels really super smooth.

P/S:Did I mention that I feel iPhone is like high end Nokia 3310?

the demand is not big enough thats why nokia let it go.

the demand is not big enough thats why nokia let it go.

Well,I'm back after 3 days.Busy picking up my parents from KLIA,got severe allergy till I cannot even type & messing with my sisters iPhone 4.
5 minutes with safari is enough to tell me that microB is a better browser.Safari is a good mobile browser but it's no match to microB's site display.
Another 5 minutes was enough to tell me that as long as iOS remain in current "locked" condition I'll never buy/own iPhone.
Mind you,even my sister who's a doctor keep complaining about the darn OS limitation.Unfortunately most of her work related stuff/app only work with iPhone.
She asked me to jailbreak it after using it for 1 day.Steve Jobs,you phailed big time.

Back to Nokia site,I heard bunch of good stuff about N9.Seems like Nokia committed to release MeeGo device only when the OS is matured.This is big change from past experience with Symbian & Maemo.Seems like the UI will be something new & interesting too.From what I can gather it seem there is already prototype version with MeeGo 1.2 alpha version.1 of the feedback was very encouraging.

Simply said it's look the force is strong with Nokia now.Let the empire strike back.

if buy n900 now, is it too late ? worry about new OS or new gen of n900 coming soon on next year.......

if buy n900 now, is it too late ? worry about new OS or new gen of n900 coming soon on next year.......

You can buy N900 after 5 years there would still be a support from Maemo community.
Most of the Maemo based Internet Tablets depends on the community for the apps & updates.

There are 2 N810 users here & there are pretty happy with their device eventhough it's an old device.

One of the quoted N810 user here
Well lemme see, yup, I can't deny that this is a very old device, underpowered by today's standard and the lack of support from Nokia really frustrating
But the community behind this really great, and thats IMHO brings out the true power of these devices

Using this tablet watching anime streamed from my lappie using Knots2, Typing reports using Abiword, Web browsing using Tear, MicroB and Opera, all been a delight for me. Heck, I've browse more here than my Nokia N8 to be honest. And currently online using it too, all from the comfort of my bed

Just remember one thing, "Its not technology, It's what you do with it".

+1

agree with u. even thou N900 is just testing device, it is successful device after all and got demand world wide. with the maemo os an open source application, nokia is finally succeed to created so called "smartphones". and meego would be a complete or finish product of maemo, since the maemo is just a testing device.

and, yeah. N97 is kinda suck man. (ex N97 user) sorry if i offended other N97 users. but that is my feel about N97.

LOL i still can i find the above sms counter .....

It's a great product with great OS, but let down by Nokia. If they just continue to work on it, improve it, etc. It'll surely turn out very special, different from the rest; but they decided to end it off. MeeGo is kind of different from Maemo, very different feel, more towards Android feel.

Anyway, despite all that, thanks to the community, the Maemo OS is still kicking and surviving, getting more and more features/functionality; Right now, I would say this N900 is being held back by it's limitation in terms of hardware, else it'll be even more kicking *ss...

However the developers said they will keep MeeGo a class above Android.
Although Android is also linux based  but it does carry some limitation.Hopefully MeeGo don't have such limitation.
My biggest concern is the MeeGo team won't trade Maemo's power as desktop class OS for a fancy UI full of Android imitation.

MeeGo do have some advantage over iOS & Android.
MeeGo is basically an OS targeted to multiple devices(handset,media center,netbook,in vehicle assistance etc2)
In theory all version have basic structure of OS but the functions are programmed differently to suit the specific need.
So with theory it's very easy to port this OS to upcoming devices.
Once the OS is consumer I expect Nokia & Intel to promote this OS for every single devices.

In other case iOS & Android(at least till v2.3) actually only suitable as smartphone OS.For those who have used iPad & Android tablets you guys should know that the tablets are actually a giant smartphones.MeeGo hopes to bring a proper tablet functions(I've no idea what are the stuff that'll be added).

Yea, I read that MeeGo will be a totaly different class from those smartphone level OS, just like Maemo; My concern is the feel and design. Honestly, I don't find MeeGo anything like Maemo although it's said to be Maemo + Moblin; maybe it's a Moblin with some Maemo features? It gives the feel and design on Android instead, maybe because it's more of a Moblin blood, LoL! 

More facts should be out around February next year...

btw I noticed a strange bug for while now.
Lets say if I cleared all my recent calls now,there will be an indication of missed call at menu tab.
Anyone have the same issue?