[Off-topic] LightspeedGalaxy:
Well, I think I do. I´m just trying to say that (almost) everyone expects a bit too much from our little toys, maybe also spoiled from the pre-smartphone-era, when you could walk around quite some time with your phone without recharging. I´m saying, if you do the same with your smartphone as you did maybe 5 to 10 years ago with your mobile-phone it will last at least as long, likely even longer as smartphones tend to have higher capacity batteries.

Todays smartphones don´t use more power in standby (with all the syncing etc. turned off), it could easily last 2 weeks, well if you don´t use it ;)

You could also easily make as much phone-calls, and everything that doesn´t need to power the giant screen like playing music.

But if you use this little beast for everything it can do, it is inevitable that the power-consumption rises sharply. And I would say power-consumption is pretty low considering what these little things can actually do.

I mean my SGSII can play 1080p-video, my second to last notebook couldn´t do it (I know it is slightly unfair, comparing a dedicated video-processor with pure software-decoding). And the battery of this notebook alone was at least 5x bigger and heavier than the whole SGSII, and it lasted just over 2h doing nothing special (I know there are much better ones, but it was a pretty cheap notebook with a rather small battery). To be fair at least the screen was 12x bigger ;)

Just 5 years ago we started using dual-core-processors on our desktops, which consumed over 100W. Before we had dual-core-processors we couldn´t really watch HD-video. Now we have both in our smartphones with a power-consumption which is about the factor 1000 smaller. I know these processors are quite a bit more powerful than our todays mobile processors, but still the development is quite impressive

Or to bring a more recent example, just a bit more than 2 years ago the Netbook-segment started with Intels Atom-CPUs. And these CPUs alone consume as much power as our whole smartphone.

And a Cortex-A9-core @ 1,2GHz is actually more powerful than a Atom-core @1,6GHz, yes you read right our SGSII is faster than the Netbooks out there.

And a dualcore Atom has a TDP of at least 8W and this needs a chipset to work with a TDP of another 12W in the first generation (although newer generations only need <5W)

So I think power-consumption of todays devices is actually very low, considering what they are able to do, you simply can not have everything and pay nothing ;)

I don´t think there will be much change soon. Battery-technology only makes tiny steps since several years, I don´t expect any breakthrough soon.

Maybe we will see more mobile charging-solutions like making electricity from your steps when you are walking. Just a few days ago I read from a T-Shirt which can transform sound-waves into electricity, so you can go to a disco to charge your phone :D

As I said above as technology evolves usually less power is needed to complete the same task. These advantage is somewhat compensated because we always put more load on our devices with each generation. But I think we are close to the point were we have enough power for almost everything (we are far beyond that point with desktop-computers). The SGSII is already so powerful, you can not think of much use its full capacity.

We already can play 1080p (which is already overkill for the small display), the display-size is maybe already too big for a phone, and everything is so smooth, it can´t get any smoother.

It is similar to cars which could technically go faster and faster, but due to the traffic-rules you can´t drive faster.

The only thing I can think of which would demand much more processing-power on a phone would be (as it is on desktops for most home-users) advanced 3D-gaming. And I´m not sure how much you will do that on a phone, maybe on a tablet, but not on a phone. This also mainly needs a faster GPU and not more CPU-power. I mean you will not do any scientific calculations on your phone, or extensive photo- or video-editing, which also would demand more power.

Obviously CPUs and SoCs will still get faster and faster, once for marketing-reasons, and because the "mobile" SoCs will get more and more tasks in devices that demanded bigger processors todays. The "mobile" SoCs are obviously cheaper and more power-efficient and if they are fast enough for the demands of an average user, why not.

The benefit for the mobile devices would be that the SoCs get so powerful, that they can be run in low-power-state for most of the time.

I wouldn´t be so sure that Meego is a dead end. Meego is not Nokia alone, Intel sure has some interest to keep Meego alive. And Nokia still has not said that they want to ditch Meego.

They may built phones with different OSs, Samsung for example used Symbian, Android and the older Windows-version for quite some time. And now they still built devices with Android and Windows Phone 7.

I´m pretty sure Symbian will live for quite some time in low-end-devices and there is no reason why it should not be possible to use WP7 and Meego in the high-end-devices, (Besides maybe a contract with MS that prohibit that ;) ) especially if you are the overall market-leader and want to get back on track in the area where you lost quite a bit.

If Meego really comes with a Dalvic-VM it would be THE mobile OS, you could use Android-Apps, Meego-Apps and Maemo-Apps. But I still have some doubts, the developers of the Dalvic-VM surely won´t give it away cheaply and if Nokia wants to invest the licensing in a "lost phone" doubtful.

Well I guess I would have waited, I still liked my N900 and the only reason I´m not using it anymore is that I have broken it. After N97Mini and N900 I said, never a phone without a touchscreen and a physical keyboard and still I´m sitting here with a SGSII ;)

I maybe would have even bought a N8 or E7, the built-quality is really good and Nokia-Maps is still light-years ahead of Google-Maps. But a ARM11-processor in the "flagship-device" of 2011? The N900-processor is much more powerful and this device is from 2009.

Nokia built some quite nice phones from the outside, but in the inside they use so dated hardware in all their Symbian-devices.

Well, at least one good aspect of WP7 is that MS demands decent hardware for the devices.