Nokia first device for new OS failed to be launched
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: MeeGo, the Nokia/Intel operating system has been now available for download to netbooks but it is unavailable as an update for Nokia’s N900 device, which runs MeeGo’s predecessor Maemo. The first MeeGo gadgets look set to be netbooks and it has merged Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo into a single open source, Linux-based platform. It has been geared mainly to hybrid mobile internet devices that sit between phones and PCs.
This new breed of highly web-oriented OSS promise optimized support for browser/cloud services and a simplified internet experience besides taking on Google Chrome OS and HP webOS, among others. MeeGo is expected to debut on a new Nokia product, a successor for N900, later in the year while the company has released new firmware for the N900, in the shape of Maemo 5/PR1.2. Release 1.0 is now available for netbooks and for smartphones but the latter will definitely have a head start.
Support for video chat with Skype, SIP or Google Talk, and a Facebook chat in the IM client are included in the enhancements for Maemo along with QT4.6, the standard graphics library for MeeGo. Other features of the OSS are improved user interface for Ovi Maps, a modified virtual keyboard and email client, and the browser can now display web pages in portrait mode.
According to the company, it knew some users would be disappointed, but insisted that it is really about ensuring that they have the best possible experience designed for the features on their Nokia N900 device. N8 will be the next high profile device launch from Nokia which will not run MeeGo but the first open source release of the revamped Symbian platform Symbian^3.
Significant amount of effort and resource have been put in by the Symbian Foundation’s development for release 3, the N8 may not get to claim the prize as the first handset to run the OS. LG, Huawei and Sharp are some of the other Asian manufacturers working on Symbian^3 models. Meanwhile, Nokia has announced that the launch of the N8 will be delayed by a month or more.
