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Is Nokia Set to Demo a Maemo Phone, and Is it Faltering in Smartphones?

As GigaOm and this Reuters report note, there is talk that Nokia will show a Maemo phone at next week's Nokia World show in Germany. Maemo, of course, is Nokia's long-standing operating system for its line of Internet Tablets, and is based on Debian GNU/Linux. However, some are interpreting the possibility as yet another sign that Nokia's focus on an open source Symbian OS is wavering.

The Symbian OS has half the global smartphone market, but Reuters quotes Neil Mawston from Strategy Analytics as saying: It looks like Maemo, or at least a Linux derivative of some description, will play a key role for Nokia in high-end (products) over the next year or two. If that's true, I have to question Nokia's overall prospects in the smartphone market.



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Nokia leaks phone with full GNU/Linux distribution. Unlike Google's Linux platform, Nokia is not intentionally breaking compatibility with real distros.

Open source and healthcare reform: good news and bad. Could open source mess up a truly integrated digital infrastructure for healthcare?

How open source saved enterprise IT. Open source is becoming more like the market that it arose out of.

Open source equivalent applications for the average user. If you were weaned on proprietary Windows apps, what are the free, open source equivalents?



Nokia's Microsoft Deal: How Truly Focused is it on Open Source?

With the announcement of today's deal between Nokia and Microsoft, which will see Microsoft adapt its Office applications for Nokia smartphones, one has to wonder how focused Nokia really is on its execution of plans for an open source Symbian operating system.?Symbian remains a dominant smartphone operating system, and the open source version of it is heading into beta testing.?Nokia, which is backing the development of the OS, with the help of a huge investment from the European investment bank,?retains top market share in the smartphone market, but is displaying increasingly mercurial and questionable decision making with its smartphone strategy.