Reuters: LG, others show interest in MeeGo as Nokia bows out

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No one likes letting a perfectly good operating system go to waste. Reuters is reporting that just as Nokia begins to divest in the MeeGo operating system, other companies are starting to dig in. The publication writes that electronics giant LG has joined the likes of ZTE and China Mobile in a “working group” that aims to develop a MeeGo-based smartphone. “It [Nokia's absence] is opening opportunities for the others to come in,” said a member of MeeGo’s steering committee. “Discussions are taking place. You’ll see things coming out this year, pretty soon.” The fate of the open-source operating system has been in question since Nokia announced it would focus the lion’s share of its development dollars and efforts on Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform. It is, however, nice to see that an OS with such great potential will not be put out to pasture just yet.

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18 Comments
  • http://twitter.com/clientsfromhell Clients From Hell

    I always did like MeeGo, hope LG can do something good with it.

  • Anonymous

    Oh LOOK, it’s “Bringit” and “Scroat” on their Wedding Day!

    • Bringit

      If it was iPAPiNYC and Tim242, you’d be spread wide open droiiid style, like your momma last night.

      • Steve Hillshire

        Wow, and you bash others for unintelligent posts…

      • Bringit

        At least mine are factual Steve Hillshire.

    • Anonymous

      FAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Q!

      • Anonymous

        You two look adorable together, when are you having ugly iBabies??

      • Bringit

        weak sauce response – like the sauce you put in Tim242 nightly. The 2 of you are wide open, droid-style.

  • Anonymous

    It’s a shame really. MeeGo looked quite good. Trouble is, there are a lot of big, big players in the mobile OS market torady. Even with an expanding market, MeeGo will have to fight hard to even overtake products like Palm and Symbian if it is to survivve.

    The second problem it faces will be to attract developers to write or prort apps to the platform. Today, apps maketh the phone.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1005786481 Sidarth Kher

      its linux, you can pretty much install anything and everything you want

  • http://twitter.com/XXTravis Travis

    Nokia didn’t bow out. Still shipping the ultimate Meego device this year.

    • https://me.yahoo.com/a/J7Mg.aBrt_zUZAONR5KHn_om4dCMew--#37f81 indio7777

      ‘ultimate meego device’ Um, isn’t this kind like GM doing away with Pontiac? Sure, you can still buy them until they run out, but the future is dead for them?

  • http://www.facebook.com/amartincolby Aaron Martin-Colby

    DAMMIT! I waited two years for a Meego/Maemo device that was a full-on, market-ready device. I liked so much about the N900, I just couldn’t make it work for my life.

    Now, after the N97, after the N8, after the N86, after endless disappointment, I’ve finally given up on Nokia and my Meego dreams. So what happens? Some other companies grab it! I can’t take this!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000722296108 Herman Guerra

    HTC will soon to follow. That would be the day that its ON!

  • http://twitter.com/homescrub homescrub

    LG, maker of low end garbage picking up more garbage.

  • Anonymous

    This is great news. Good to see an alternative open source OS for smartphones.

  • Anonymous

    Yah!

  • http://www.facebook.com/wixostrix WixosTrix

    iOS, Android, Windows Phone, WebOS, Blackberry OS, MeeGo. How many smart phone OSs can survive?

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