Nokia and Intel have just announced they are working on a brand new hybrid OS for connected devices called MeeGo. What's more, the open-source operating system already seems to be in the final stages of going live. Read on to find out more about the merging of Moblin and Maemo to create a new OS..

Kai Öistämö, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Mobile Phones, has just announced on stage that Nokia and Intel are working on MeeGo, which is a mix of the Moblin and Maemo operating systems.

It's been designed with mobile computing devices, netbooks, tablet, connected TVs in mind and is aimed at stopping market fragmentation by such players as Apple and Google. According to the guys over at electricpig, 'It'll use the QT application framework so MeeGo apps can port to Symbian and Maemo too.'

From the Meego website: "MeeGo is an open source, Linux project which brings together the Moblin project, headed up by Intel, and Maemo, by Nokia, into a single open source activity. MeeGo integrates the experience and skills of two significant development ecosystems, versed in communications and computing technologies. The MeeGo project believes these two pillars form the technical foundations for next generation platforms and usages in the mobile and device platforms space."

MeeGo blends the best of Maemo with the best of Moblin to create an open platform for multiple processor architectures. MeeGo will be hosted by the Linux Foundation and governed using the best practices of the open source development model. The first release of MeeGo is expected in the second quarter of 2010 with devices launching later in the year.

Check out MeeGo.com, which is now live