Showing posts with label MeeGo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MeeGo. Show all posts

21 Jun 2011

Nokia officially introduces the MeeGo powered Nokia N9, the first pure touchscreen phone

Nokia officially introduces the MeeGo powered Nokia N9, the first 
pure touchscreen phoneFacing a desperate situation, Nokia might have pulled a miracle out of its hat with the introduction of the Nokia N9. On Monday,
The first thing to understand about this phone is that there are no front buttons. The Nokia N9 is so intuitive that a swipe or gesture on the curved  3.9 inch AMOLED display is all you need to navigate through the MeeGo OS. To leave an app and go back to the home screen, the user swipes from the edge of the screen. The phone itself is constructed in a one-piece unibody design with the body made from polycarbonate material to improve antenna reception. Under the hood is a TI OMAP3630 1GHz CPU matched as usual with the PowerVRSGX530 GPU, Nokia's first.

28 Apr 2011

Stephen Elop: Nokia won't build just another tablet


Apple has a tablet. So does RIM. HP Palm too, soon enough. And Android tablets, particularly those running Honeycomb... they're everywhere -- hell, even Sony has a few on the way. That leaves Nokia as the glaring anomaly conspicuously absent from the tablet wars. Understandable, we guess, given the company's urgent need to transition its smartphone strategy to Windows Phone. That doesn't mean the company is standing still though. According to an interview with YLE television in Finland, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is taking a very calculated approach to tablets,