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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. Nokia is dead by Steve+Max · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Nokia is dead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

      Really, REALLY, REALLY makes you wonder what kind of deal Microsoft has with Elop personally, doesn't it?