After the release of the Windows Phone line-up, Nokia has backed off from efforts to revitalize MeeGo, focussing most of its resources instead on its new partnership with Microsoft.Įarlier this year when Stephen Elop was talking about why he chose Windows Phone 7 over Android, he did not say much about MeeGo.

The last phone to come out of Nokia's factories to run on MeeGo was the N9. Though adored by a niche audience, MeeGo never saw much mainstream success, especially here in India where Nokia didn’t launch the N900. The MeeGo core operating system is a Linux distribution based on Intel’s Fedora-based Moblin and Nokia’s Debian-based Maemo.

According to Intel, MeeGo was developed because Microsoft did not offer comprehensive Windows 7 support for the Atom processor. The open source community was very excited when MeeGo was first announced in February 2010 by Intel and Nokia in a joint press conference.

The Jolla team consists of a substantial number of MeeGo's core engineers and directors, and is aggressively hiring the top MeeGo talent to contribute to the next generation smartphone production.” will design, develop and sell new MeeGo based smartphones. The statement with, “Together with international investors and partners, Jolla Ltd. It deserves to be continued, and we will do that together with all the bright and gifted people contributing to the MeeGo success story.” The Jolla team is formed by directors and core professionals from Nokia's MeeGo N9 organization, together with some of the best minds working on MeeGo in the communities.” He went on to add, “Nokia created something wonderful - the world's best smartphone product. is a Finland based smartphone company which continues the great work that Nokia started with MeeGo. This new startup is being led by Chief Operating Officer Marc Dillon and in a statementhe says, “Jolla Ltd. Jolla is Finnish for rescue sail boat or dinghy, and is a reference to what they aim to bring to the table when they launch the MeeGo-based smartphone.

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