Many Nokia fans cried out when Nokia dropped Meego support in favour of Windows Phone 7. A new rumour suggests that Nokia might return to Meego for some low-end smartphones.
Nokia’s N9 is a smartphone chock full of contradictions. I love the design and the operating system, but I’m frustrated by it too. It’s enough to drive me to poetry.
Nokia’s announced the pricing for the amazingly beautiful N9 phone. In light of Nokia’s hook-up with Microsoft, its Meego line is a little stillborn, but if you’re still keen, it’ll be available across all carriers in October (Telstra’s got a pre-registration page here) or outright for $799 for the 16GB model and $979 for the 64GB version.
Thought the situation at Nokia was dire already? They’ve just reported their first quarterly loss in 18 months, recording $US521 million loss, compared to the $US322 million profit they made in the same period last year.
Nokia just gave us a look at their new N9 running MeeGo. It looks great, except that it’s dead on arrival. But just in case you were unsure about Nokia’s future plans, CEO Stephen Elop basically confirmed it’s all over.
At the Sydney N9 press conference today, Nokia confirmed that the N9 would feature an activated NFC chip when it launched in Q3 in Australia, although the phone won’t support mobile NFC payments when that technology launches in Australia. So what can you use NFC for then? Angry Birds with magic.
Today I had my first chance to test drive MeeGo, the Linux variant designs for use on low-power and embedded devices. I had a play with the OS on both netbook and tablet devices, as well as a very quick look at MeeGo on an in-car system. How’s it stacking up against the Androids and Chromebooks of the world?
