The Jolla team consists of a substantial number of MeeGo's core engineers and directors, and is aggressively hiring the top MeeGo and Linux talent to contribute to the next generation smartphone production.

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One strong candidate is Meego, a Linux-based project first announced by Intel and Nokia in Feb. 2010.

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Before this strategy Nokia had the goal of developing Meego who was an open source Linux platform made with the help of Intel and other hardware makers with the objective of being capable of be instaled on phones, tablets, PCs, GPS, Televisions and making everything syncronized.

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Linaro's outputs will accelerate the abundance of new consumer products that use Linux-based distributions such as Android, LiMo, MeeGo, Ubuntu and webOS in conjunction with advanced semiconductor SoCs to provide the new features consumers desire at the lowest possible power consumption.

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