It's clear that Nokia is leaving room in its product portfolio for a high-end MeeGo device.
And it's also Maemo, MeeGo -- everybody hears about MeeGo now, but that was actually...
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Option two, he says, would be to phase out Symbian, and shift resources to MeeGo.
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Representatives of MeeGo, Symbian and other programs within Nokia all struggled to make themselves heard.
Windows 7, Android, MeeGo and Google's upcoming OS will all work on the Intel platform.
One strong candidate is Meego, a Linux-based project first announced by Intel and Nokia in Feb. 2010.
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Jolla Ltd. is an independent Finland based smartphone product company which continues the excellent work that Nokia started with MeeGo.
Other areas of focus include MeeGo, the open-source mobile operating system that Intel and Nokia are jointly developing.
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The company is building its new high-end smartphones around a platform called MeeGo, developed with Intel Corp.
And finally there is Jolla, and the new Finnish post-MeeGo OS Sailfish.
Mr. Elop said in the company's third-quarter conference call that Nokia would launch its first MeeGo device this year.
The fate of Meego, a joint venture with Intel to create an open-source operating system, is less clear.
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Elop confirmed that the first Meego device would ship this year but did not specify any definite commitment beyond that.
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The first was Sailfish from Jolla, effectively an evolution of MeeGo running (at least currently) on Nokia developer hardware.
In a parallel universe, MeeGo became the standard operating system for netbooks, which became the dominant form of mobile computing.
Together with international private investors and partners, a new smartphone using this MeeGo based OS will be revealed later this year.
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Nokia spent the second half of the event addressing questions about the future of its current operating systems, Symbian and Meego.
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While Meego would likely be part of this investment, other opportunities also exist for driving innovation, such as HTML5, said Elop.
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The OS has evolved from MeeGo OS using Mer Core and Qt with Jolla technology including its own brand new UI.
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Nokia, meanwhile, had another "transitional" quarter, with sales of both Symbian and MeeGo devices shrinking, although its Windows Phones proved stronger.
The Lumia 800 bears striking similarities to the Nokia N9, released earlier this year, which ran on the open-sourced Meego operating system.
Sailfish is a revamped version of the software platform MeeGo, which Nokia dropped in 2011 before laying off Dillon and his team.
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Especially after all the sly grins, winks, and suggestive nods we received from Nokia employees at all levels hinting at MeeGo's awesomeness.
He says there will be a Meego device this year, but he says that they have been treating Meego as being experimental.
Fortunately for them, Meego itself, and the Mer fork, was open source.
Acer is also seriously considering releasing a tablet based on the open-source mobile operating system Meego, according to two Acer product managers.
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It deserves to be continued, and we will do that together with all the bright and gifted people contributing to the MeeGo success story.
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Also keynoting is Marc Dillon, CEO of Jolla, a Finnish company formed by past Nokia employees that resurrected the one castoff MeeGo operating system.
Arguably Nokia could have shown off a phone running Symbian, Meego, or even Android, and the bulk of the presentation would have been identical.
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