Jolla today announced that its still-in-development smartphone operating system, called Sailfish, is compatible with the Android ecosystem. Specifically, Sailfish can run most Android applications without the need to modify the apps or use a runtime environment in the OS. Further, Sailfish itself can now run on most Android hardware, including smartphones and tablets. Jolla says […]
Jolla today announced its first device, a smartphone called the Jolla. Jolla is based in Finland and took over the remnants of Nokia’s Meego operating system. It has been working to create a new, gesture-based operating system based on Meego called Sailfish. The smartphone announced today is the fruit of its labors. The Jolla device […]
Nokia has revealed it will soon release the Meego Harmattan 1.2 beta update to developers who already have the N950 developer phone. The update is said to contain more than 3,000 new features, fixes and other changes, with video calling, folders for the home screen, and new camera and gallery apps rumored to be among […]
Gartner refreshed its estimates for tablet share in a view that further cemented Apple’s lead. It now saw the iPad taking more share in 2011 than predicted just five months ago, up five points to 73.4 percent, or 46.7 million iPads. The analyst group lowered its expectations for Android at the same time and saw […]
Samsung spokesman James Chung in a statement Friday ruled out the prospects of buying MeeGo. The representative didn’t acknowledge that Samsung might just take control, but he argued that a financial deal was impossible. As open-source work, it “cannot be a target of acquisition,” he told CNET. Intel system software GM Doug Fisher, meanwhile, claimed […]
Intel may be putting a halt to work on MeeGo after getting little to no takeup from partners, industry rumors maintained late Thursday. With Nokia backing away outside of phones like the N9 and very few using MeeGo for tablets, Intel was reportedly looking to at least temporarily shut down work on its in-house OS […]
Lenovo’s IdeaPad S100 has begun to show up on European shelves with MeeGo. This is the first netbook running the Linux-based, Intel- and Nokia-developed OS to be sold on the continent. It’s not clear if Lenovo has plans to bring the variant on the netbook to the US. The IdeaPad S100 runs a single-core, 1.33GHz […]
Despite the significant marketing efforts Nokia has put behind its MeeGo flagship handset, the N9, the company appears to be shrinking its launch plans to include fewer countries. After admitting that there is no intention to bring the N9 to the US or the UK, the company has told MobiFlip the device will not be […]
Nokia’s US president Chris Weber said in an interview Tuesday that his company was dropping Symbian entirely in North America. It would shed all its basic feature phones and Symbian smartphones by the time the first Windows Phones reach the country. The US would be a priority for design and was responsible for the first […]
ASUS’ slew of Computex rollouts on Monday included notebooks and netbooks. The UX21 shares the tapered, all-aluminum body but is even thinner than its Apple counterpart at 0.67 inches thick and can be optioned up to a Core i7 processor. It similarly depends on SATA 6Gbps-based SSD storage and has custom software that takes more […]
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