Meego is an operating system framework which is collaborated by both Nokia and Intel, combining their efforts from Maemo and Moblin respectively.
It is opensource and a large part of this framework focuses on the user interface, which is mainly large icons with an easy point & click user navigation interface. The outlook of the interface resembles most of what Intel have had for Moblin.
Primary designed for netbooks and nettops, it is beginning its port to smartphone devices as well.
A move by Intel to, probably, promote its Atom’s Moorestown platform for mobile smartphones in direct competition to ARM CPUs currently powering popular smartphones such as the Android mobiles and IPhones. Intel has also recently announced the port of Google’s opensource mobile OS, Android, to its Moorestown platform.
Apple’s Iphone aside, this may mean Intel trying to get a piece of the mobile CPU market share by allowing multiple OS since the x86 Atom based Moorestown is able to support both Meego and Android. And since its well-known that most linux applications are more readily available on the x86 platform than the ARM platform, Intel might just give pro-sumers a better run for their money since the x86 platform is more versatile than the ARM.
If that’s the case, what would be Nokia’s agenda in this collaboration? Will consumers be seeing Nokia producing a smartphone using the Moorestown platform?
It would be interesting to see how the Meego collaboration unfolds and reveals the new direction of opensource in mobile communications and how opensource is shifting the strategies of Giants such as Nokia and Intel.
Now who said that anything that is free is usually worthless?
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