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Nokia has been one of the biggest backers of MeeGo, a platform that both Nokia and Intel have been heavy investors in and has been dubbed as one of the most promising options for the next generation of smartphones and tablets.

While Nokia has and still continues to be the biggest cellphone manufacturer in the world, the company has been unable to make a major dent in the U.S or North American market for that that matter. The company has been working behind the scenes to establish its Symbian^3 platform and most recently MeeGo.

At first Nokia had planned to release its Meamo ^ on a TI OMAP processor. However, in light of its recent board shakeup mainly due to the company’s slumping sale, the new Canadian-born CEO has made several changes inclyding the decision to role Moblin into MeeGo. More importantly, the company has been working with Intel closely as we noted earlier and has since been considering using Intel’s Atom instead of TI’s ARM based OMAP chip. Intel has said before that the company’s Medfield-based smartphone processors which are a successor to Moorestown would be arriving in mid-2011.

All this has led a Finnish technology magazine, Prosessori, one that is well respected to reveal that the Nokia N( will be launched with a 1.2GHz Atom processor, more importantly, the device could be launched as early as next month at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Spain.

Thanks to an Intel chip and an all new user experience, this could give Nokia that extra oomph to not only gain worldwide attention but some credibility in North America as well. This would be crucial to Nokia’s high-end lineup which the company has been revamping of lately with such devices as the N8 and the N700.

Thanks Engadget

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While it is pretty much expected that mobile phone users would be more interested in the Apple iPhone 4 than any other handset (since smart phone just came out a couple of weeks ago), it is surprising how much Nokia’s public ratings has gone down.

According to an independent study by YouGov, the number of people interested in getting a Nokia handset has gone down by at least 12%. Only 34% of phone buyers are considering getting a Nokia.

While the drop is mostly attributed to Apple’s new iPhone launch, but many also believe that Nokia has failed to keep public interest in their devices by failing to come up with truly innovative handsets in the past few months. With most of Nokia’s mobile phones still concentrating on the low end users, many high end smart phone users pass up Nokia devices in favor of phones from LG, Samsung, HTC and other big name phone manufacturers.

The Espoo based company needs to ramp up its game. Not only is Nokia currently the largest phone manufacturer in the world, they are also the most eco-friendly (with Sony Ericsson ranking in second place) as reported by Greenpeace.

Nokia has previously led the industry by setting new standards for mobile phone makers. Also, the close ties between the Finnish phone maker and the Symbian foundation has led to the creation of several iconic devices as well. Unless they are able to come up with a phone that is truly able to compete with the Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7, Nokia stands to lose plenty of ground in the next generation of smart phones.

This means that the upcoming Nokia N8 which uses the new launched Symbian^3 OS and the Nokia N9 which uses MeeGo which was developed by both Intel and Nokia are going to determine what happens to the company in the next few months.

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In what is probably a tech industry faux-pass, Nokia has indirectly placed the Symbian^3 OS on the side and is putting more focus on the upcoming MeeGo OS as well as the possibility of the eventual launch of the Symbian^4.

With that said, Nokia has already confirmed that the N8 smart phone will be the only Symbian^3 handset to be used in their N-series lineup. In the meanwhile, their new MeeGo OS will be the main focus of their high end N-series lineup. With two strong operating systems already available (the Symbian Foundation’s S-series and the Intel-Nokia MeeGo) Nokia is not looking at other operating systems.

This means that die-hard Nokia users will not be seeing any Android smart phones from the Finnish phone manufacturer any time soon –or even in the distant future. Nokia’s support for the Symbian Foundation is a pre-established given in the industry, and even with the development of a proprietary Nokia OS, the Symbian still remains as a primary OS for Nokia’s other phone lineups (such as the X, C and E series of handsets).

As for the Symbian^4 operating system, there is still no news as to when the OS will finally be made. With the Symbian^3 still not yet out, it is unlikely that version 4 will be released this year, though it is rumored that development on the new OS is already underway.

The Symbian OS has been suffering from performance issues –particularly with the major bugs that plagued the Nokia N97. Even established Symbian supporters such as the Guru have acknowledged the situation and are starting to slowly withdraw their support from the OS. The Symbian^3 OS needs to bring back the confidence and trust of users in the platform, and according to Anssi Vanjoki there is plenty to look forward to with the upcoming N8 –for Symbian’s sake, he better be right.

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