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Nokia Aborts Meltemi Linux-Based Feature Phone

Posted by timothy on from the you're-finnished dept.

judgecorp writes "Nokia has closed down the Meltemi low-end Linux phone which was supposed to replace its System 40 devices. The platform had never been officially announced and now, apparently, will never see the light of day. Feature phones still make up a giant market where Nokia has dominated, but this leaves its upgrade path in question."

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  1. Re:Nokia is dead by Tough+Love · · Score: 4, Informative

    They had the dominant smartphone OS AND the dominant dumbphone OS. They had an experimental high end, Linux-based OS that was almost ready to retake the top spot in mindshare. They had the best development tools, which would allow one to target those 3 OSs simultaneously. And they were developing this new Linux-based dumbphone OS that would be created around those tools.

    Now they have Windows Phone.

    Amazing to think that was little more than a year ago.

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    When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
  2. Re:Double down on black by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm beginning to think M$ management culture is infectious

    It is if your CEO is from Microsoft.