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Sotiris Makrygiannis, who according to his LinkedIn profile is “Director of Applications, MeeGo” at Nokia, has just tweeted that after 12 years with the company it’s time to call it quits. He sent several additional tweets saying how he remembers the hard work his team put into the N9, that February 11th, 2011, was a…
Last year was a bumpy ride for Nokia fans. In February the company’s CEO, Stephen Elop, told the world that Symbian was going to be taken behind the barn and shot in the back of the head. The future, according to him, was going to be Windows Phone. Nine months later, in November, the Lumia…
Before we get to today’s news, you need some backstory: Nokia started work on a Linux based mobile operating system called Maemo back in 2005. It got better over time, just have a look at the Nokia N9 to get an idea of what we’re talking about. Now Maemo wasn’t the only Linux mobile OS…
Nokia’s MeeGo running N9, the one and only device that’ll ever run said OS, is getting a new software update according to the guys at Nokia Conversations. They say that 70% of N9 owners have already had the update pushed out to them, and that the next 30% will have to wait another couple of…
Alexey Roslyakov, the same guy who managed to cram Android to the Nokia N900, is trying to make the Nokia N9 dual-boot Android and MeeGo. In his private tests (public release is still not available), he made the N9 run Android by pressing the volume-up button during boot. The progress is partially documented at Maemo.org…
Good news for those of you with Nokia N9 smartphones. The Finnish company has released a new software update for developer devices (i.e. Nokia N950) and will follow with the real deal after the new firmware is thoroughly tested. The software we’re talking about here is PR 1.2, the same one we’ve seen leaked almost…
Good news for die hard MeeGo fans in the UK – the only commercially available MeeGo smartphone, Nokia N9, is now available for 349.99 GBP through Expansys. That money gets you a 16GB model in magenta, while its black counterpart is 15 GBP more expensive. Now I must add that 350 GBP (about $539) still…
I know many of you like Nokia’s one and only MeeGo smartphone – N9. I like it too but somehow I can’t justify the price – it’s just too expensive considering the hardware. If you go for an Android smartphone, 629.90 EUR buys you a bigger screen and dual-core processor. Sure it’s not all about…
Most people who either already picked up the N9 or are seriously considering buying it this holiday shopping season know full well that it’s the first, last, and only device that the Finnish handset maker will release running MeeGo/Maemo/Harmattan. That means developers don’t really want to support it since there’s no future in the ecosystem,…
Nokia prepared an awesome commercial for the N9 in China. The Unfollow ad looks epic, showing us a young woman as she tries to differentiate herself from the rest of the pack: If others choose to endure, then I choose to resist. If others choose to compromise, then I choose to fight. It doesn’t matter…