Sunday, 14 August 2011

Meego and the Nokia N9, where do we go from here?

Those that know me will tell you i've been waiting since nokia announced its partnership with intel to bring us the meego operating system. for me, meego ticked all the right boxes. Having a platform which spans several areas of technology and isn't controlled by one company seemed just what us end users have been waiting for.  I've always had issues with big companies wanting to dominate the market and i saw meego as the big brake the Linux foundation needed to get open source into the public domain.
But then Elop happened! i know the future of meego isn't controlled by nokia but its involvement up until the ex microsoft bloke took over  would of had a massive influence on its success. instead nokia decided meego won't be ready to compete and another OS was needed to bring nokia back to the top in smartphones.
so today, we have no official nokia windows phone and the most fantastic looking meego based handset about to arrive in the shops.
with reports that the N9 won't be coming to many countries, nokia have stated that this is more to do with the networks not wanting the handset rather than nokia not shipping world wind. but i feel nokia would of suggested to the networks not to back the n9 and wait for the windows phone as that is the platform nokia intend to support long term.
So what can we if you were hoping for a true open source operating system in your next handset? very little is the short answer but maybe, just maybe, if enough people supported meego, then the networks might have second thoughts? What i suggest is we email all the networks in your country and ask when they are releasing the N9, if the networks get unprecedented interest in this handset are they going to ignore the requests or deliver what its customers wants? nokia might of done a deal to promote windows phone but the networks have no such commitment? spread the word amongst the meego community, on message boards, facebook and twitter to get emailing and put pressure on the networks to release the n9.
below you'll find the contact details for the uk networks

O2

Orange

T-mobile

three

vodafone

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