Thursday, September 29, 2011

Meltemi to power future Nokia feature phones?

Two days ago, Nokia started to ship it's first (and last) MeeGo phone, the powerful N9. Today, WJS revealed some on-going project inside Nokia, code named Meltemi. According to the source, the Meltemi project is led by Mary McDowell, the executive vice president in charge of mobile phones.

Similar to MeeGo, Meltemi is also Linux-based. However, it's more targeting the low-end feature phones. Sounds interesting, right? And if you follow Nokia closely, you may still remember that when Nokia announced Qt for the next billion, they never explicitly said the next billion meant S40. If we look back to April, when The Register revealed some internal memo, it quotes:
"There will also be opportunities within the Meltemi organization, for personnel working within the MeeGo teams."
Seems we have more to expect!

UPDATE
This is the response of a Nokia spokesman via email:
Of course, we don't comment on future products or technologies. However, I can say that our Mobile Phones team has a number of exciting projects in the works that will help connect the next billion consumers to the Internet.

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