Nokia scuttles plans for N9 MeeGo phone?

By on Feb 9, 2011 at 9:22 AM
mobile February 9, 2011

According to a report filed by Reuters, Finnish phone giant Nokia has ended the development of its first MeeGo smartphone; the article cites “two sources close to the company” as the origin of this information. Nokia’s first MeeGo handset has long been rumored to be the full-QWERTY N9 (pictured above). Industry analysts tapped by Reuters feel that the phone maker could still showoff another, unknown, unfinished MeeGo device at next week’s Mobile World Congress, but such an assertion is pure speculation.

Nokia has an event planned for this Friday, and rumors have been flying about the company potentially adopting the Windows Phone 7 operating system; Nokia’s new CEO, Stephen Elop, is a former Microsoft executive.

We’ll know more on Friday, but until then… hang on. It’s going to be a bumpy ride for Nokia.

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  • Anonymous

    So how is this news? Prototypes are scrapped all the time.

    • http://twitter.com/usemeego meegouser

      I also don’t get it. The actual N9 project is still on track. This leaked prototype was cancelled months ago.

  • Omar

    Such a huge dissapointment you are Nokia.. I was such an advocate of the brand.. I didn’t know you were just a huge chicken with its head cut off! Well.. Time to bring out those hidden patents and slap WM7 on it in hopes it will salvage your market share.. Snooze you loose!

  • http://twitter.com/mfg68 MFG

    It’d be nice to see Nokia adopt Windows Phone 7 AND Android. They’re hardware is very nice and those camera…ooooo.

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

    Didn’t they learn anything from Palm’s debacle getting WebOS out the door?? Nokia announced MeeGo a looooong time ago and we’re still waiting for it. By the time it finally hits the streets, everyone else is light-years ahead and MeeGo will be just another “also ran” phone os. Palm took 2 YEARS to get Nova/WebOS onto a handset from the time they announced it. How long until we actually can use MeeGo?

    • i told u so.com

      wrong Palm announced Webos at CES 2008 then released it june 06 where do you get your info from. Also thats not what hendered webos sales, which still sold over 3million pre’s it was the hardware, and marketing both of which was because palm didnt have the captial to scale it. hence HP/Palm Webos show in 3 hours, with the best OS in webos, to become a market leader in 2 years get ready for that.

      • i told u so.com

        i meant CES 2009

  • http://twitter.com/mattmoschel Matt Moschel

    Does anyone else think this form factor would be sweet if it were tablet sized? Honestly, I need a keyboard to get real work done. This, plus the iPad or Android OS a few iterations down the road, and I could see that as my only computer (except maybe the Flash iPad). What do you think?

  • Anonymous

    i was waiting for the N9 to launch like a year ago..Nokia has been REALLY going downhill. If this was released then, I probably would’ve sold my Nexus One, at the time, for it. The physical attributes on this device is sic!

  • Alexander530

    What? “bumpy ride for Nokia”? But nokia fanboys have been saying that it’s been a growing year for nokia and that they’re still the biggest and are still leading. Let’s not believe Nokia. Let’s believe what the nokia fanboys say :)

    • http://twitter.com/usemeego meegouser

      Full year 2010 final market shares of the top 10 smartphone makers: Nokia still sells more smartphones than the next two competitors combined.

      1 Nokia 100.3M 34%
      2 RIM 48.0M 16%
      3 Apple 47.5M 16%
      4 HTC 25.0M 8%
      5 Samsung 24M 8%
      6 Motorola 13.7M 5%
      7 SonyEricsson 9.5M 3%
      8 LG 7.0M 2%
      9 Fujitsu 6.2M 2%
      10 Sharp 5.2M 2%
      Others 11.6M
      Total 297.9M

  • Anonymous

    Funny that as all I see are ‘rumour’ and ‘sources’

    Those rumours and sources could not perhaps be Microsoft sponsored, perhaps trying to distract their own shareholders from the fact that in Q4 of 2010, despite a new launch, windows phone lost market share.

    Q1 sales numbers for windows phone are not out yet, but expect them to
    be half of what shipping Q4, as media blitz is now over. fail.

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