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Nokia MeeGo Smartphone Due June 2011?
By Mike Browne on November 23,
 2010 at 00:00,

The first Nokia MeeGo smartphone is set to launch in 2011, this much is common knowledge. However, a definite time scale has always been vague but it now seems most likely that we'll see the first serious hardware as soon as June 2011. Excited? You be better that we are. Read on to find out more about the Nokia MeeGo smartphone...

MeeGo is the next stage of evolution for Nokia's high-end smartphone platform and brings together the Nokia Maemo platform and Intel's Moblin own OS. The open-source Linux platform will first appear on netbooks but it's looking like we'll have to wait until June before a fully-working multi-touch smartphone version will be available?

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How do we know? Well, a rather in-depth but interesting article has made an appearance over at UMPC Portal. The guys over there have managed to condense the findings of the recent MeeGo Conference in Dublin into a timescale of when we're likely to see various platforms appear.

According to the report, single touchscreen devices could be launched now as MeeGo 1.1 fully supports this. However, with MeeGo 1.2, which is fully intended to support multi-touch, not due until April 2011 we'll have to wait for some serious hardware to appear. The report suggests that it would take hardware a couple of months to appear after the OS has landed, giving us the timeframe of June for the first Nokia MeeGo smartphone to appear.

The next MeeGo Conference is to be held in May 2011, the perfect opportunity to announce the first Nokia MeeGo smartphone? Next year looks like being the year of MeeGo and we're more than happy to wait for a killer OS rather than see anything rushed. What do you think? Let us know your thoughts in the Comments below.

Via: UMPC Portal

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  • Eyesthruthelens

    Do you think N8 will be able to upgrade to MeeGo when it’s available in 2011?

  • Larry Schreiber

    Let’s hope Nokia gets it done soon. I’m 70 and have used Nokia phones for several years. Best and easiest software on the market. Good build on its phones. Looking for an unlocked smartphone from Nokia with Meego. Don’t have much time left so Nokia get going.

  • Carl Hunter

    Personally I think June is way too late for Meego. I think Nokia should release a N900 style device with physical keys and a touch screen to give early adopters a chance to try Meego and then release a super powered device with all the bells and whistles in the summer. All OS\\\’s evolve, iOS has evolved over the last 2-3 years, even Windows Phone 7 has launched without cut and paste as a feature, for most people as long as the OS is still and the majority of things work well. By next summer I don\\\’t think Meego will be a killer OS, we\\\’ll be on the 5th iteration of iOS, Android 3 will be really mature by then, even Windows Phone 7 will be a good few months older with some pretty fine upgrades in the pipeline. I know this site is on Nokia\\\’s payroll so you\\\’lll never criticise Nokia and you delete anything remotely critical so I doubt I\\\’ll see my comment on here.

    I seriously don\\\’t think there\\\’s space for Meego at the top end, Symbian will be fine as it works great on low resources and has a massive user base, but Meego is starting from zero. Microsoft have attempted this with Windows Phone 7 and they have the finance to pull it off, Noka don\\\’t. It\\\’s going to be hard enough for a new OS like Windows Phone 7 , but it\\\’s going to be even harder for Meego to make any kind of impact as Microsoft can afford this risk, Samsung\\\’s Bada is dying a death as we speak too, and in the long term Android is going to win out. In terms of software and innovation, Google are streets ahead of Nokia.

  • Ryan

    @Carl Hunter I find it hard to believe that Bada is failing? Seeing as they\\\’ve already made a upgrade to there first Bada phone and seeing as there first Bada phone selled extremely well I don\\\’t see why it will be dieing anytime soon?

    Also who on earth says Nokia doesn\\\’t have the capitol to make Meego work? They do only sell like 34% of all phones in the world every year? Meego will work, the 5800 is proof that Nokia can make something from nothing, it was there first touch screen phone and it was a huge success, Meego will explode when it arrives if it\\\’s done right.

    If they go mess it up like they did with the N97 and other bloopsies then yeah it\\\’ll die. Infact there mess ups made me going from a avid Nokia fan that would never buy another brand, to a blackberry fan. With meego they caught my attention again.

    Hopefully with the big change in there executive seating things will finally start looking up! :)

  • http://www.farahfa.com Fadi

    Hurry Nokia do what Carl suggested because obviously he sounds like the greatest market analyst out there!!! /s

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