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* Android apps running native (or at least semi-native) under a Linux desktop. (Really, this should be pretty darn easy, in theory anyway)

Apparently, the WePad was doing just that, no idea how well it worked though.

Not Android - a Maemo/Meego with OpenMobile's ACL (Android app support) would be the best of both worlds: different from the competition but keeping compatibility with thousands of apps.

A company called Nomovok will provide Qt for Tizen: http://www.meegoexperts.com/2011/10/nomovok-tizen-integrated-qt/

you can't ... replace the kernel

Nokia specifically made provision for this, there is 'open mode', you can flash kernels onto the device, they need some patches to disable the security framework if you want to boot Harmattan (and you may lose some functionality that is protected by Aegis), and while you have a non-Nokia kernel running, you will see a nasty warning when you boot the phone.

But, you can easily install (multi-boot) other distributions.

Really, how do you think mer / Nemo and Nitdroid (Android 4.0.3) run on the N9 ? Since Nokia did things right with the N9 (upstreaming as much as possible), the Nitdroid team has almost full functionality available (calls, 3G, USSD, bluetooth, wifi etc.), where on the N900 years of work by the same team and they didn't manage to get calls or 3G working (though I think mer on the N900 does).

Yeah, except Meego can run Android apps. The problem is that Nokia is obviously uninterested in any OS besides WP7, which is a shame.

> faultless, buttery smooth operation of the N9's MeeGo

From Engadget, no less :

http://www.meegoexperts.com/2011/06/nokia-n900-meego-1-2-summer-release/

I agree that things look dim, but in addition to Intel — LG maybe able to throw its hat into the Meego ring.

My N900 is great and I'd hate to move off that platform.