Intel, Nokia Team Up For MeeGo OS
By Chris Weiss
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Or, join another player in the market that also can’t beat ‘em and needs you as much as you need it, hoping that your combined efforts will indeed beat ‘em. That about sums up the recent Nokia/Intel cooperative effort to bring a new mobile phone OS to the market. MeeGo is a combination of Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin. We would have preferred Momaemo, but MeeGo it is.
MeeGo keeps the open-source, Linux roots of its parent OSs and provides a rich, new operating system positioned for high-end smartphones, netbooks, tablets and connected televisions. MeeGo supports both ARM and Intel chips. The OS is a divergence from other operating systems, which tend to be purpose-built for smartphones or netbooks, but not both.
The first MeeGo devices will appear in the second half of this year. One thing’s certain: there will be no shortage of mobile OS options to choose from in the coming months. [via PC World ]
