Potential specs for Nokia’s MeeGo phones revealed

By on Feb 2, 2011 at 8:29 PM
mobile February 2, 2011

An administrator of a German Nokia enthusiast forum dug through a variety of MeeGo bug reports, source code files and log files recently, and has assembled the specification details contained within. While impressive, to say the least, there is no indication at this point that all of these juicy specs are destined for a single smartphone. But it’s safe to say that Nokia is working with some pretty advanced hardware as it prepares to embrace the MeeGo platform, which will power all of its high end smartphones in the near future. So, what did this forum admin uncover? How about a 1.6GHz Intel CPU, a 200MHz GPU with 512MB of dedicated RAM, 1GB of system RAM, an 854 x 480-pixel touchscreen display, an HDMI-out port, HSPA+, NFC, GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi 802.11n and all the standard sensors. Specs along aren’t going to save Nokia as its profits and market share continue to shrink at an alarming pace, that’s for sure — but top of the line, well-spec’d devices are one important piece of an enormous puzzle that Nokia needs to assemble as quickly as it can.

[Via IntoMobile]

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  • Anonymous

    Not even well-specced devices can save Nokia now.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RNAEK4YVCN2LPL4IWFIFGGVAHE Odai

    If they had that in a Symbian device. I will buy it. No questions asked. I’m still itching about Maemo and MeeGo. I’ve been using Symbian for many years and I love it. I really don’t care much about the apps and all that. I love my N8 and other Symbian phones but I might put this to a try if it’s real (and has T-Mobile’s 3G frequency support and HSPA+ for it will be better!)

    • http://www.youtube.com/jeromeo1980 Jeromeo

      Nearly all of Nokia’s newer phones are the only devices in the world to support both T-Mobile AND AT&T 3.5G North American networks.

  • Anonymous

    specs sound very impressive for a smartphone but how about the battery life?

  • http://rmbo47.myopenid.com/ rmbo47

    Yeah, we should see this around 2015. Way to go, Nokia! Bwahahahaha!!!

  • http://twitter.com/#!/dutchtender m j

    entering the marketplace with an untested unknown OS running on an untested and unknown chipset seems like a loser to me. But then again we are talking about a nokia business decision here.

    • Marcus Christopher McFann

      since when is GNU/Linux unknown? MeeGo is merely Maemo, with new partners and Qt already added, plus a Qt UI instead of a Gnome/GTK based one. So its proven. The chipsets in every iPhone and Galaxy S were once new, too…

    • Mo

      Untested!! This thing has been testers hands since before Aug 19th 2010. Do a search and see how many tech sites show the N9.

      • http://twitter.com/#!/dutchtender m j

        every v1 os sucks and meego will be no different. in fact it looks like n9 has been delayed yet again!

  • Anonymous

    I like the form-factor of this phone. If I was CEO of Nokia….I’ll just make hardware.

  • http://mindmirror007.blogspot.com/p/home.html Sathya

    I hope OS matches specs!

  • http://twitter.com/hijackerjack Rohil Thopu

    Put Android on it and I’ll consider it…

  • Itsjustmee

    all they need to do is come up with a way for meego to run android apps and they’ve got it made.
    assuming they can ever actually GET IT DONE and not just talk about it for another two years

  • Anonymous

    Looking forward to MWC and some official news from Nokia regarding Meego and Symbian Developments. Also to note the N9 is also rumored to have the same 12MP camera (w. Xenon) that the Nokia N8 currently has. I guess we’ll find out, Meego looks promising.

  • http://twitter.com/ThereIsAFormula There Is A Formula

    meego=Maemo + Moblin.. youtube Maemo 5 and tell me that OS doesn’t deliver.

  • http://twitter.com/spamcuritiba G

    Can Intel make a splash in the smartphone industry?

  • http://twitter.com/spamcuritiba G

    Can Intel make a splash in the smartphone industry?

  • Brian

    Apparently I’m a total idiot.
    A true convergent Personal Computer/phone/multimedia device built on Nokia hardware – which is still as good as if not better than most – with a Linux distro that’s able to run recompiled* desktop apps sound pretty sweet to me.
    If Intel and Nokia pulls this off I’ll gladly give the fruit and robot the boot.
    * Alright, a little more to it than that but not much – but an instant open source app library free for the taking. Sheeple won’t go for it but anyone wanting a real device? Whaddayuhthink?

  • http://twitter.com/angusou812 craig mac

    Nokia still doesn’t get it, the handset specs are good but common these days of Android phones, so you have to put as many interfaces as you can to appeal to the masses. Made to order these N series with Android, Symbian, Meego and Maemo is the only way to save them.

  • Dara

    Those specs are netbook level already. Meego will end up on everything, not just N series phones.

    The potential of Meego is that Intel will make it x86 compatible, and the Linux community will port existing interfaces. For example, the KDE interface (which is used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux), is already written in Qt. Then you get complete integration and can run the same apps everywhere.

    • Exvaser

      but kde blows

      • Dulwithe

        You don’t get it… Meego is NOT kde. Kde is built upon qt. Qt is the programming framework upon which kde was/is built. Meego is going to use qt libraries, but it is not Kde.

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