Nokia-Intel Collaboration, Maemo and Moblin Turns Into “Meego”

Intel and Nokia announced in June of 2009 that they would be teaming up to work on various projects, And now the Cell phone manufacturing giant Nokia greets with Intel at World Mobile Congress 2010 to conflate their mobile Linux projects into one and by came up with Meego.

Apart from the air-headed name, MeeGo is the combination of Nokia's Maemo, used on the Nokia N900 and a few others, And Intel's Moblin which powers MIDs based on the Moorestown platform.

What can a Meego do?

The CPUs that support Meego are seemingly quite diverse too - Maemo runs on ARM processors, while Moblin is optimized specifically for the Atom-based Moorestown platform.

The shameful aspect is that there won't be an amalgamated app store. Intel AppUpSM Center will be the go-to place for apps for all Intel devices while those running on Nokia will use the Ovi Store.

The Qt toolkit:

It seems that developers will have to write an application just once and deploy it on several platforms - that includes MeeGo on ARM or x86 CPUs, even Symbian and other OSes.

Meego is a completely open source and will be hosted by the Linux Foundation.

There's no word whether MeeGo will be available for Nokia N900 but the first release of MeeGo will be in the second quarter of this year and the first devices to use the new OS will come some time after that.

This collaboration will help reduce the costs and share the risks of development associated with new offerings.