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Nokia’s N-Series Will Ditch Symbian For Maemo By 2012

11:09PM Danny Allen | At an official N900 meet-up in London last night, the Maemo marketing team appears to have let slip that Nokia will use the Linux-based OS instead of S60 on all its future flagship N-Series handsets. About time, no? More »
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Overheard: “Nokia Will Never Release An Android Handset”

8:03AM Dan Nosowitz | At the Finnish phonemaker’s booth, I overheard a Nokia rep tell someone definitively that Nokia “will never release an Android handset”. He added, “You can quote me on that”, which is good, because I am! More »
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Nokia N900 Maemo Is A Phone, Makes The N97 Look Silly

11:17PM John Herrman | There’s been a lot of talk about the N900 Maemo “tablet”, especially about how it looks suspiciously like a phone. And even if Nokia (inexplicably) plays it down in their now-official announcement, that’s exactly what it is: an amazing-looking handset. More »
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Has Nokia Fallen Out Of Lust With Symbian?

12:28AM John Herrman | According to Reuters, yes, and all because of some slutty-slut-slut Linux OS named Maemo, said to be the company’s new high-end handset platform. Nokia’s first Maemo indiscretion handset’s said to be landing next week, and probably looks something like this. More »
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Report: Nokia Partnering With Intel For Mystery Device

8:53PM John Herrman | Bloomberg is reporting that Nokia has chosen Intel to supply processors for upcoming devices. What kind of devices? Who knows! That news could come tomorrow, when the partnership is set to be announced. Nokia tablet, anyone? [Bloomberg—Thanks, Tim!] More »
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Nokia’s Down With Making A High-End Open Source Phone, Just Not With Android

1:10AM John Mahoney | When Nokia first showed me their Maemo Linux-powered N800 Internet Tablet, I told them it was cool but that, ideally, I wanted this exact product, smaller, and as a phone. Seems like two years later, this might finally be the way things are headed. More »