By now many of you will have read the disappointing news that Nokia, the iconic provider of simple cell phones, has thrown in the towel, having announced a “strategic partnership” with Microsoft to ship new smartphones with Windows Phone 7. Nokia CEO (and former Microsoft Exec) Stephen Elop made the announcement at the Nokia Strategy [...]
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Next N900 firmware update (PR1.3) will allow easy Maemo / MeeGo dual-boot for developers
Harri Hakulinen has announced over the official MeeGo Blog that the next firmware update (PR1.3) for the Nokia N900 is not far away, and that it will allow for the easy dual-booting of Maemo and MeeGo. He also provides an interesting update on the progress of the MeeGo for N900 adaptation project (not officially supported [...]
MeeGo round-up for Month of August
Running MeeGo 1.1 (Unstable) on the Nokia N900 At the beginning of August, qgil posted an overview of what’s required to get the currently unstable build of MeeGo 1.1 running on the Nokia N900. Exciting stuff – looks like I need to go and buy an SD card! Nokia Prototype Photos Leaked In mid-August, engadget [...]
All future Nokia N-series smartphones to run MeeGo
On Thursday, Nokia spokesman Doug Dawson stated in a Reuters article that “Going forward, N-series devices will be based on MeeGo.”. The currently unreleased N8 will be the last N-series device to run Symbian, and the rumoured N9 device is speculated to be the first MeeGo handset from Nokia – to be released in the [...]
No official MeeGo release for Nokia N900
The Nokia Communications blog today confirmed that there will be no official MeeGo release for the Nokia N900. The information was tucked away at the bottom of a post for the new Maemo 5 update: Moving away from the update and to look at MeeGo and the Nokia N900. Many of you have been asking [...]
MeeGo round-up for Month of April
Nokia Could Introduce MeeGo-based iPad Rival At the beginning of April, a Reuters article speculates that Nokia could be planning a MeeGo tablet in a form factor similar to that of Apple’s iPad. MeeGo Support Grows MeeGo backing received a massive boost on April 12th, when the Linux Foundation announced supporting statements from Acer, Amino, [...]
Maemo and Moblin merge – MeeGo is born
Last week Nokia and Intel announced that their mobile/umpc linux distributions would merge to become MeeGo. Intel’s Moblin distribution will form the base operating system, and Nokia’s QT application framework (which was to be part of the upcoming Maemo 6 release) will form the UI. Nokia are also hoping to transition Maemo’s strong community of [...]