Nokia n9 meego os full#
Nokia n9 meego os software#

When new CEO Stephen Elop issued his now-infamous 'burning platform' memo, my advice to the company was to go all-in on MeeGo and avoid the distraction of a transition to another operating system. The company had effectively bet its future on MeeGo-meaning that any change at such a late stage would be borderline suicidal. As I pointed out at the time, Nokia's MeeGo efforts were very close to producing the kind of platform that Nokia needs to be competitive. When the rumors first started to emerge about the possibility of Nokia adopting Windows Phone 7, I was highly skeptical.

Nokia n9 meego os software#

The ambiguity of MeeGo's role in Nokia's future product lineup and the company's frustrating mixed messages to third-party software developers have already set up the N9 for failure. The new phone is a bit like the Titanic: a masterpiece of quality engineering and luxury craftsmanship that is doomed to sink on its maiden voyage. Nokia's schizophrenic platform strategy and lack of long-term commitment make the device a non-starter.

Based on some odd images that Engadget spotted, it looks like N950-a special developer variant of the N9 that will only be available to select third-party developers-might be based on the original slide-out keyboard design.ДЄlthough it appears to have a lot to offer, the N9 unfortunately won't get an opportunity to shine. The release date got pushed back as Nokia started a new keyboardless design called the N9-01, codenamed Lankku, which was likely the basis for the N9 that Nokia unveiled this week.

That design, which was known internally as N9-00, was dropped. The original MeeGo-based N9 prototype had a slide-out physical keyboard and was thought to be scheduled for a Q1 2011 launch. What this means is that the distinction will be little more than an implementation detail as far as users and application developers are concerned.ДЄ closer inspection of Nokia's MeeGo strategy shows that this hybrid approach is entirely consistent with the roadmap that Espoo was espousing earlier this year.ДЄnother major point of confusion is the relationship between the new N9 and a leaked prototype with the same name that showed up on the radar last year.

Nokia n9 meego os full#

It seems sort of dubious on the surface to call the software MeeGo when it's really still Maemo, but the hybrid is apparently designed in such a way that it has full API compatibility with MeeGo 1.2.