Samsung and Sony Ericsson have at the end of 2010 negotiations about the creation of MeeGo-powered smartphones, according to a reconstruction of the developments of MeeGo in the past few years. The negotiation piece.
At the end of 2010 would not only Samsung, LG and Sony Ericsson have failed in the negotiations, European providers, would their support for MeeGo around the same time, have withdrawn. Reports that the Finnish site TaskuMuro in a detailed reconstruction of the developments surrounding the smartphone platform of Nokia and Intel. Samsung, LG and Sony Ericsson would have failed due to the dominance of Nokia in the development of the platform.
MeeGo would be an amalgamation of Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo, both based on a Linux kernel. The cooperation is in 2010 presented, and then in 2011 the only fruit of the partnership came on the market: the Nokia N9, which by the way is not running on MeeGo, but “api-compatible” with the platform.
After other manufacturers decided not to cooperate and the providers of their support introkken, found the executive board of Nokia, under the leadership of the then new ceo Stephen Elop, that there is no future for the platform. So Intel does not plan lte support, adding to its processors, Nokia could also not with chipmaker Texas Instruments, because from Omap4 no baseband-processors would continue to deliver.
MeeGo is been phased out; Nokia is focusing on Windows Phone, while Intel together with Samsung currently, Samsung’s own operating system Bada to make Linux platform Tizen. The first devices with Tizen have in 2013 come on the market.
Nokia has a few devices in development with MeeGo. The first is the design used for the camera-phone N8 with Symbian os. The second was for developers available as N950, while the third as the N9 on the market. A fourth, with the same design and polycarbonate unibody as the N9 and a qwerty-keyboard, never came on the market.
