Nokia N9 getting MeeGo and Intel Atom internals?
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.
