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Nokia hit 3m Ovi Store downloads a day milestone

, Nov 18th 2010 Discuss [0]

Nokia has announced that Ovi Store downloads have reached 3m per day, while more than 400,000 new developers have signed up in the past year. Among the downloads, 92 developers have each seen their apps downloaded more than 1m times; altogether, Nokia is seeing more than 1 billion downloads per year. Read The Full Story

MeeGo roadmap tips no CDMA or LTE support until Oct 2011

, Nov 16th 2010 Discuss [0]

If the current state of MeeGo 1.1 failed to impress you, perhaps something on the company's roadmap will stand out more. Unwired View's Staska is at the MeeGo Conference 2010, where they've just shown a slide detailing timescales for future builds of the open-source OS. MeeGo 1.2, for instance, is due in April 2011, while v1.2 is targeted for October with LTE and CDMA support. Read The Full Story

MeeGo 1.1 handset build gets new video demo

, Nov 16th 2010 Discuss [3]

The MeeGo team has already promised that there won't be any new devices running the open-source OS launched at the MeeGo Conference this week, but that hasn't stopped them showing off the latest build of the OS. Carrypad shot some footage of a Moorestown-based AAVA smartphone running MeeGo 1.1, and while it's still far from ready for the public, it's certainly come on well from when we last saw it. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

AMD join MeeGo project with Intel & Nokia: will use it with APUs

, Nov 15th 2010 Discuss [2]

AMD has thrown in with Intel and Nokia, announcing support for MeeGo this morning. According to the press release, AMD will "provide engineering resources" to MeeGo development, with a mind to using the open-source OS in its embedded device plans "and create expanded market opportunities for our forthcoming Accelerated Processing Units." Read The Full Story

Free MeeGo IdeaPad S10-3t for developers as Intel get open-source serious

, Nov 15th 2010 Discuss [4]

If you thought Intel weren't taking MeeGo seriously, think again. The MeeGo Conference 2010 has kicked off in Dublin this morning, and Intel has just told attendees that everyone is getting a free Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t convertible touchscreen netbook running the open-source OS. Read The Full Story

Symbian UI overhaul due early 2011; Nokia CEO will talk “connected lifestyle devices” at MWC

, Nov 10th 2010 Discuss [2]

Nokia expects to update the UI of its Symbian devices in early 2011, with a new portrait-orientation QWERTY keyboard and split-screen text input, as part of an attempt to improve "the visual appeal of the graphics" and hopefully win back a few hearts. That's the message from Jo Harlow, Nokia's Senior VP of Symbian Smartphones, who told Engadget that the move to bring Symbian development back in-house will lead to faster iterative developments for handsets like the N8, C7 and E7. Meanwhile there's also talk of MeeGo's potential, and not just for smartphones. Read The Full Story

Sprint pledge MeeGo support

, Oct 28th 2010 Discuss [2]

A common criticism for Nokia in the US is that the company fails to collaborate sufficiently with the carriers, thus seeing its handsets marginalized in favor of rival phones.  It seems Intel and Nokia aren't willing to let that be the fate of MeeGo, however; they've thrown in with Sprint at the carrier's annual developer conference, where the operator confirmed it would be looking to leverage the open-source OS "across an array of devices." Read The Full Story

Nokia N900 gets Maemo update: Ovi Suite & extra speed

, Oct 25th 2010 Discuss [7]

Nokia maintains that regular N900 users will be better served sticking with Maemo than trying to persuade them to jump the device to MeeGo, and it seems that the Finns are at least following up on their promises to maintain the open-source OS.  A new software version for the Nokia N900, v.20.2010.36-2, has been released, adding full Ovi Suite support and various bug fixes and speed improvements. Read The Full Story

No Nokia MeeGo device until 2011 confirms CEO

, Oct 21st 2010 Discuss [0]

New Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has confirmed that the company's first MeeGo device will make its debut in 2011.  Speaking on the Nokia financial results call, Elop described the MeeGo smartphone as "a 2011 event."  Nokia had previously maintained that it would launch a MeeGo device by Christmas 2010, despite losing its division head to Palm. Read The Full Story

Ex-MeeGo VP joins Palm with Samsung R&D boss tip insiders

, Oct 15th 2010 Discuss [0]

Executive positions at the big mobile makers are a little like musical chairs: the same people just keep circulating.  According to AllThingsD, Ari Jaaksi - who left his position as Nokia's MeeGo division head earlier this month - has joined HP as Senior Vice President of webOS.  Meanwhile ex-Samsung R&D boss Victoria Coleman has also jumped ship to the Palm division, where she will now be overseeing platform and app development for future versions of webOS. Read The Full Story

Nokia: N900 MeeGo dual-boot isn’t for consumers

, Oct 14th 2010 Discuss [1]

News earlier that the Nokia N900 would be getting a dual-boot MeeGo option cheered up a lot of people, who had begun to suspect that the Finns intended to leave them and their open-source smartphone in the cold.  Now, however, the official word from Nokia has come through to The Nokia Blog that consumers still won't be offered a dual-boot option: it's only intended for developers to use. Read The Full Story

MeeGo finally comes to N900

, Oct 14th 2010 Discuss [0]

When the Nokia N900 hit the market the device was running Maemo and MeeGo was missing. MeeGo has now announced that it has a new open source modem adaption specifically for the N900 smartphone. The development of the software is attributed by MeeGo to cooperation from its dev team and the Nokia Telephony and Audio Team. Read The Full Story
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