NOKIA gives up SYMBIAN on the N-series

Nokia has just announced that they are giving up the symbian operating system on their N-series phones, in the future the N-series will come with Meego. Meego is a joint project that Nokia has been conducting with Intel.

I have to say that this is a good news from Nokia, users of Nokia has for a long time now demanded that Nokia changes their Operating system to something more advanced and stable. Maybe now we can stop pulling the batteries from our Nokia phones to make it work.

Here is some info of Meego for all of you who are interested…

"MeeGo is a Linux-based open source mobile operating system project which was announced at Mobile World Congress in February 2010 by Intel and Nokia in a joint press conference. Its aim is to merge the efforts of Intel on Moblin and of Nokia on Maemo into one project. It is hosted by the Linux Foundation. According to Intel, MeeGo was developed because Microsoft did not offer comprehensive Windows 7 support for the Atom processor.

Harmattan, originally slated to become Maemo 6, is now considered to be a MeeGo instance (though not a MeeGo product), and Nokia is giving up the Maemo branding for Harmattan and beyond (Fremantle and previous will still be referred to as Maemo instances).

MeeGo is intended to run on a variety of hardware platforms including handhelds, in-car devices, netbooks and televisions. All platforms share the MeeGo core, with different UX (User eXperience) layers for each type of device.

MeeGo provides support for both ARM and Intel x86 processors with SSSE3 enabled  and uses btrfs as the default file system." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo)
(http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE65N14720100624)