Nokia reveals the N9, it's next MeeGo smartphone

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MDMAniac said:

sad.man.loves.vgc said:

A question, will MeeGo be released on devices made by HTC , Samsung and SE in the future? or is it forever exclusive to Nokia?

LG and HTC are participating in Meego, but no devices were announced by them. On the other hand, the biggest telco in the world, China Mobile, has Meego as their choice #1 so prolly we could see some Chineese OEMs like ZTE or Huawei or Meizu producing Meego handsets in the future. It's question though if other operators will be willing to import those handsets.

Mind you though Harmattan (N9 UI) is owned by Nokia, so they prolly keep it to themselves so other vendors will use their own or vanilla Meego Phone. It saddens me, as some companies apparently approached Nokia to buy out their Meego competence (people and products), but were refused. Elop wants to sink it completely, with no chance to rebirth whatsoever.

There's no question that Nokia is keeping MeeGo stuffed in the closet, but they do have one good reason not to sell it even if they have no immediate intention of using it: Leverage.

Nokia will have an easier time wrangling concessions from MS if they can raise the spectre of  switching to MeeGo, even if past decisions would make that choice painful, awkward and expensive.