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After some preparation the developers have switched their Kontact Suite to the Akonadi framework. The users will not notice much about what has happened under the hood. During upgrade all the neccessary Kontact data will be automatically transfered to Akonadi. The users may notice an improved IMAP-performance.

<------- The Mobile group-ware Kontact Touch on a Nokia N900 under Maemo 5:

Kontact Touch boosts to be the implementation of group-ware clients on Mobile gadgets that run with Meego or Maemo. It offers Mail encryption per OpemPGP and S/MIME and a fast sync with the PIM database because of Akonadi.

Does Meego or Maemo come shipped as OEM OS on the mobile devices or is some sort of 'root' thing the kids are doing necessary?

Merely idle curiosity; I'm far too immersed in the paleolithic web capabilities of my Treo 755p, when on the go, as it is.

Nokia was going for Meego big time and then MS came.... So yes that was a fully fledged OS that was supposed to be shipped with the phones.

I thought I saw Meego around the Mandriva repositories at one point.

It could be (Some Moblin stuff for super speedy preload or something)! It is a distro too.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=meego

Mandriva Linux 2010 Release Tour wrote:Mandriva Linux is the first distribution to include full packaged Moblin environment

I think I had seen some reports around this but did not investigate on my eep due to lack of time.

I know that the Germans complained heavily about it - It did not seem to work all that well. If I understand it correctly it is a smal linux distro delivered with some PC's ,(Often in BIOS not telling that it is LInux of course) where you can boot in to check e-mail and surf the net in 10 sec.
Actually my superduper i7 box came with something like that. It did disturbe my Linux installation so I deactivated it in BIOS. Also you have to reboot to get into the "real" PC
The way I see it; I have this superduper PC - why should I turn it into a cell phone.