And another OS arrives, this one courtesy of Nokia and Intel.
The hybrid platform for 'multiple processor architectures on connected devices' is called MeeGo, and will become the upgrade path for Maemo. It means that Maemo will effectively disappear as a consumer-facing brand.
Blimey, that was quick.
The new OS is an open source platform, based on Linux and is a mix of Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo.
It’s been designed with mobile computing devices, netbooks, tablet and connected TVs in mind, as well as mobile.
Nokia has stressed that Meego will be available to other OEMs, though it will be interesting to see how much adoption it gets given the competition from LiMo, Android, Windows, Bada and others.
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The handset giant is adamant that Meego does not spell the end of Symbian. It stresses that Meego is a high end platform, with Symbian remaining the optimum OS for mass market smartphones.
MeeGo will be hosted by the Linux Foundation and governed using the best practices of the open source development model.
The first release is expected in the second quarter of 2010 with devices launching later in the year.
