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Future
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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
is 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 Open Source community more than
consumers.

A download of the MeeGo operating system is available, but not
officially supported by Nokia. Nokia used to say that MeeGo was going
to succeed Maemo for new devices; however, on 11 February 2011 Nokia
announced it will be primarily concentrating on their alliance with
Microsoft. MeeGo development will not be stopped and one MeeGo device
will become available in 2011.

On 3 March 2011, Jukka Eklund, Product Manager, MeeGo OS at Nokia
announced in the MeeGo-dev mailing list that there will be a MeeGo 1.2
Developer Edition for N900 developed by a dedicated Nokia team led by
Mika Leppinen. The target of this particular edition is to be usable
as a primary phone device for a developer/hacker person but not for
regular end users.

The September 2011 announcement that Intel and the Linux Foundation
were abandoning MeeGo in favor of Tizen prompted the developer
community to begin to seriously doubt the future of MeeGo on the N900.

Subsequently, developers rapidly left the project, leading to an
abrupt halt of discussion on the Meego-dev mailing list.
The MeeGo Developer Edition after a rename to MeeGo Community Edition
evolved into Nemo, which is based on Mer  and is currently (October
2012) actively developed.

The Nitdroid project, which ports Android to other devices as an
alternate operating system, is also available for the N900. However,
little progress has been made on achieving voice calling under
Nitdroid N900, and the main developer, who goes by the online handle
"e-yes", has moved on to developing for other devices such as the
Nokia N9.

A community-based project aiming to provide a hardware upgrade for the
N900, called Neo900, began in late 2013 as a collaboration between the
Openmoko and Maemo communities.  The hardware upgrade will quadruple
the device's RAM, provide a processor nearly twice as fast as the one
in original N900, and integrate additional sensors such as a gyroscope
and compass. It is likely that a more modern LTE modem will also be
included.

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2018/12/17 17:52