Laugh/cry about Nokia all you want, but when it comes down to cold, hard figures, they’re still performing well. They’ve seen a 65 per cent increase in net profits for the last quarter, shipping 126.9 million units in the period.
Though it’s only a proof of concept for now, this clip shows the hack-friendly Nokia N900 dual-booting Maemo and Android. It’s just a taste, but as Brandon says, “its real and it could be spectacular.”
The open source platform Maemo has returned to town after last being seen in Nokia’s N900, this time spied in a video review of the Optima OP5-E.
Despite the N900 looking like a return to the days of quality Nokia phones, it’s announced it will halve production of its smartphones in 2010, instead concentrating on dumbphones, or “mid to low end smartphones,” as they see it.
Sure, Nokia’s N900 has been faced with delays, but that can’t be the sole reason it’s planning just one Maemo release in 2010, can it?
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?
