It is looking more and more likely that Nokia will be moving away from Symbian for its high-end devices. Not a bad move I suggest. Thanks to Trevor for the link.
“Nokia is planning to dump Symbian for Linux as part of a concerted strategy to beat the iPhone, multiple sources said Wednesday. While the tips echo reports of the N900 using Maemo Linux for its interface instead of Symbian S60, Reuters now hears the shift is part of a larger strategy that will replace Symbian on many if not all high-end Nokia smartphones in the near future. The first fruits of the move are anticipated at next week’s Nokia World show.
Support for the rumor may come from the increasingly likely specs for the N900. It shares nearly all the features of the slow-selling N97, including the screen size, camera and 32GB of storage, and so far only really differs through a different OS and a slightly different design…”
mmm I like to play around with my N810 (got it free as they sell so badly lol), a linux distro that feels almost like a full desktop distro on a portable device is good fun, but I don’t know if I would pay good money for it.. I hope they have worked hard on this new Maemo release..
Nokia are happy to have a multi OS strategy as their end-game is content. The real money in the future will be in content not hardware and software (Android is already free!).