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They should revive the N900 platform by offering Maemo/Meego in Nokia 6, 5 or 3. Would cost little and bring in tons of loyal followers.

It's an antifragile plan. They would have to invest little to port and keep Maemo running on these new terminals. But if it takes off it can give great ROI. Also, it buys them independence and differentiation.

They should also provide AOSP for these phones, so that we don't get yet another Android terminal that gets no updates past a few months. It'd be nice to have alternatives for pricy Pixels to run CopperheadOS.

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> tons of loyal followers.

This is correct. ton = thousand.

Unfortunately thousands of loyal followers is not even a good start.

"tons" is a relative term. These days I very much doubt they'd make the return on investment. But it would be interesting to allow users to flash the OS onto the Android device they bought.

(Not that they will- the Nokia name has been licenced, so the manufacturer doesn't really have an incentive to push Meego)

I had the N9 with MeeGo, best OS for phones I have ever used. Also very beautiful and easy to use.

Yea N9 is still best, only N950 can beat it :)

"tons of loyal followers" are most likely a smaller group of people than you seems to believe.

Sorry, i'll take the N800 before the N900.

And the Maemo platform kinda lives on in Sailfish. If going systemd and wayland can be called "lives on". Never mind that i suspect they in part got developer attention because of some experiences developing (for) the Maemo platform.

Along with the build quality that Nokia was known for, I am sold.

But are these really 'Nokia' phones? Didn't someone else just buy the right to use the Nokia name

IIRC when the MS takeover/under happened, the stub of nokia was left behind, and MS actually walked off with the exclusive right to make nokia branded phones (or maybe just smartphones, unsure) for a certain number of years.

I'd guess that that period has expired.

Someone = former Nokia engineers from the golden years

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