14 DAY TRIAL // Nokia 900 is one of the hottest mobile phones available on the market at the moment, although its fate seems to be somehow doomed. Launched on the market with the Maemo 5 operating system on board, the device has small chances to see an update to a newer version of the platform, especially now that Nokia teamed with Intel for the merger of Maemo with Moblin in MeeGo.
However, while the official word is that “Maemo on Nokia N900 is not upgradeable to MeeGo,” it seems that there might still be some hope for enthusiasts. The device comes with a Cortex-A8 chip inside, which means that it has enough power to support the MeeGo platform, not to mention that the handset is one of the main tools used by the Finnish handset vendor for driving the support for MeeGo for the ARM CPU architecture.
Ray Haddow, senior manager within Nokia Communications, is the one who said that not all hope was lost in the end, even if Nokia officially said that the upgrade wouldn't come to N900. Moreover, Valtteri Halla also stated that things might move in the right direction for N900 users out there, “N900 is a natural tool for Nokia to drive MeeGo support for our designs and for the ARM CPU architecture in general. We want to have baseline HW that is powerful, easily available for anyone and form-factor stuff so that one HW works for most platform and application development needs.”
However, this does not mean necessarily that the update is on its way to the Nokia N900. Moreover, there are chances that this might never happen, though some work in this direction is being made. The one thing that remains to be done is to sit tight and wait for the final decision to be made, it seems, as Engadget notes.
“That said, please do not take this yet as a commitment to fully productise MeeGo on N900. I am quite confident that we will end up having a really good developer distro for N900 already but committing to stabilise a consumer-grade MeeGo 1.0 (first half this year) for N900 is another story. That is a product business decision beyond my scope. Also, we do not yet know about MeeGo 1 release content. I am not yet sure if I would be personally ready to let my Maemo5 go for the first MeeGo release in my daily N900 use,” Valtteri Halla stated.