If you don't understand the significance of what you're looking at then you're probably not paying attention. First off, that Aava slab of
WoW slaying smartphone is underpinned by Intel's
Moorestown processor. Yes, Intel, not ARM, as Chipzilla gets serious about taking its silicon mobile. Second, that's the freshly minted
MeeGo OS for handsets that just made its first alpha appearance last week. And it just happens to be the OS that Nokia, the world's largest handset manufacturer, will be building its future generation of super smartphones upon. We'll give you a second to take it all in.
Fortunately for us, the device is in the hands of Steve "Chippy" Paine over at
Carrypad / UMPC Portal. As such, this is just the first of many revelations to come. Hit the man up on Twitter if you want to follow his adventure first hand.
posted July 7th 2010 7:31AM
MeeGo? Maemo? Symbian? I'm sooo lost ._. Can someone please explain the difference between all these. I thought that Nokia's only smart phone OS was Symbian then I found out about all these other ones ><
@yader91
It's not that complicated. Meamo is becoming Meego. Meego will be in their very high end devices/mobile computers. Symbian in everything else.
@yader91
Google is your friend.
So ... MeeGo runs on the iPhone now?
@Yoshi1080 It's not iphone. It has the 4 Android specific buttons under the screen :). Maybe it's a samsung phone. They seem to copy iphone lately.
@Lucian Armasu Um no it's an Aava phone idiot, why would it be samsung? It's not a public phone, it's a developer testing phone, and no meego does not run on the iPhone now.. What?
LOL that's what I was thinking when I 1st saw it.
@yader91 Symbian has been Nokia’s smartphone OS for years until a few years ago, they found out that it actually pretty sucks. Then they started work on the Linux based Maemo, which is essentially a cousin of Android’s. But they can’t just use Android because they are the number 1 phone maker so they are too proud to just adopt anything that’s free and successful and does the same thing they want to do.
Meanwhile, Intel had the same idea of making a Linux based operating system called ... Goblin or something. So they joined forces and just like a fish and a light bulb combined result in the head of Homer, Maemo and Goblin resulted in the name MeeGo. Maybe it’s intentional that this sounds like Me Too, since it is pretty much the same as Android in a slightly different flavor.
It all makes very little sense and if you have Nokia stocks, I would sell them. If you are interested in a smart phone with an OSS operating system, just buy an Android device instead. It’s already everything MeeGo wants to become when it grows up.
@Yoshi1080
Except that Android is just a linux kernel with java crap on top,
while Meego if a full blown linux distro.
@Lavoe If they got full Linux distro on it - they blew it.
@Lavoe that's what interests me....I may have to buy a MeeGo handset unsubsidized if one is released stateside (or accessible stateside) with T-mo bands...
This may be a pretty tech-filled year for me.
Nexus One, whatever follow up device I eventually get, a WinPho 7 phone, and now a MeeGo phone....nice.
@AbsoluteDesignz
lol wow i thought i was bad with two smart phones, it looks likes your going to have alot.
@Yoshi1080
You must be seriously hurting your brain trying to come up with utter nonsense like this. MeeGo aspiring to be Android? Besides the fact that MeeGo is superior technology (as is Qt) its going for a mobile computer experience. You can forget about that with Android. Android is slow, jerky, non native, and even JIT cant help it. Performance wise, MeeGo will eat Android.
Android? Do you think everyone is skinning it because they think it is a good idea to use a google owned OS, which doesnt cost money but is most certainly not free? Do you not think if Android was any better, or if it made sense strategically, they would have used it? Oh dear. Amateur industry analysts.
@JFH
"they found out that it actually pretty sucks" after I read that, I just stopped and knew that everything else he would say would be rubbish.
@Yoshi1080
Maemo came before Android. Its just N900 was the first mobile to runt it. But Nokia had alredy released internet tablets with it.
And they are nothing alike.
Maemo and MeeGo are full blown linux cmputer OSes.
Android is a moible OS, based on linux kernel.
Besides Nokia has much to gain from having a OS, that they somewhat control. They dont have to wait for updates. Look at android... eventually the manufactors got tired of waiting for good camera support, and had to do it themselves. No HDMI support, well i guess we cant wait anymore. Not flash support, well, lets get flashlite 3.0 in there. No filetranfer via bluetooth, well we cant wait. Not real Exchange server integration, well, we cant wait, we have to do it on our own, again...
With control over your own OS, you dont have to wait, just produce the unit, and the software you need for it.
MeeGo is already more mature than Android will ever be, if they dont redesign the OS completly and keep the name, but Im sure Google would release that new OS with a new name.
A MeeGo Phone, is a mobile computer!
And android phone, is just a phone!
Do you want JUST A PHONE, or do you want SOMETHING MORE.
You choose. Dont be a fool!
@JonHolstein
Ok here goes.... ;-)
"Maemo came before Android. Its just N900 was the first mobile to runt it."
> Is it an Android phone?
"But Nokia had alredy released internet tablets with it.
And they are nothing alike. Maemo and MeeGo are full blown linux cmputer OSes."
> I don't care.
"Android is a moible OS, based on linux kernel.
Besides Nokia has much to gain from having a OS, that they somewhat control. They dont have to wait for updates."
> I don't care.
"Look at android... eventually the manufactors got tired of waiting for good camera support, and had to do it themselves. No HDMI support, well i guess we cant wait anymore. Not flash support, well, lets get flashlite 3.0 in there. No filetranfer via bluetooth, well we cant wait. Not real Exchange server integration, well, we cant wait, we have to do it on our own, again..."
> I don't care.
"MeeGo is already more mature than Android will ever be, if they dont redesign the OS completly and keep the name, but Im sure Google would release that new OS with a new name."
> But is it an Android phone?
"A MeeGo Phone, is a mobile computer!
And android phone, is just a phone!"
> I don't care.
"Do you want JUST A PHONE, or do you want SOMETHING MORE."
> I want an Android phone.
-- The End --
@naashak
So much win.
@naashak, you forgot the part about gee-bees ;)
@incognito
and the Wi-Fis :-)
iPhone ?
wow, I'm really excited about this. Something that isn't iOS or android? Count me in!
Anyone try Meego on a Laptop or Netbook or know if Meego is boot-able from a USB stick? Was debating on trying to dual boot the latest version to see what all the fuse is about. So far its looks great. Wish the N900 was a bit cheaper, or I'd order one and place Meego on it. Sounds like its' replacement the N9?? won't be out for a good while.
@dougbeebe MeeGo for Netbooks is bootable from a USB drive. The replacement for the N900 is suppose to be out in October running the Maemo/MeeGo hybrid.
fun fact: Aava sounds a lot like the hebrew word for love :)
Oh man, am I the only one who though it was an iPhone when I scrolled down?
@Kejeza
Like its been with mobiles since the 80s.
some phones just look a bit like each other.
@theflew thanks, thought I'd read somewhere that MeeGo could do that. Now I have to decide if I want a N900 to play with in the near future, or wait for the new model in Oct/Nov. Rolls the dice.
@dougbeebe if you get a n900 i'll throw mine at the back of your head for being dumb
@Atlantian
hum.. whats wrong with getting a N900 at his point?
I'm an Apple fanboy, but Android takes a close second. Since this MeeGo platform looks like an Android killer, I have a theory that when Android and Apple start losing marketshare to this platform, the two companies will make a partnership to make a new iPhone/Nexus One to get the lost market back.
This phone has the same buttons as android. My guess is the either people will port Android to those phones or they will port MeeGo to Android phones.