The Nokia N9 is the first (and probably the last) phone to ship with MeeGo Linux. But just because that’s the software that it comes with doesn’t mean that’s what you’re stuck with — because now there’s a way to dual-boot MeeGo and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on the Nokia N9. The software which is called “Project Mayhem” is still in alpha, which means… Read more »

The Nokia N9 is one of the only phones ever to ship with the MeeGo Harmattan Linux-based operating system. Pretty much the only reason to choose the N9 is if you want to give the dead operating system a try. But if you don’t want to be stuck with MeeGo, it looks like an alternative may be on the horizon. A group of developers have been… Read more »

The Nokia N9 is the first and last phone the company plans to make running the MeeGo Linux operating system. That might be enough to convince you not to buy the phone, since any apps you purchase probably won’t be able to run on the next phone you buy in a few years. But it’s still nice to have a chocie, because the N9 looks… Read more »

Nokia has been working on a new Linux-based smartphone operating system for a couple of years. Originally called Maemo, the project merged with the Moblin netbook Linux project a while back to become MeeGo, a customizable, robust touch-friendly Linux-based operating system. Eventually the plan was to use MeeGo instead of Symbian in high-end smartphones. But then Nokia decided to sign a partnership with Microsoft to… Read more »

Nokia still sells more phones than any other company on the planet. But the company’s market share is rapidly declining and the Symbian smartphone operating system which powers Nokia’s high-end devices has been seriously lagging behind iOS and Android in development. Today Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced the company is going to take pretty drastic action in an attempt to turn things around: it’s dropping… Read more »

You know what the best way is to run Android apps on your phone? Buy a phone running the Google Android operating system. But pretty soon it might not be the only way. A company called Myriad has announced a new tool called Alien Dalvik which allows phone makers, operators, and others to offer Android applications for non-Android phones. The company will demonstrated the technology… Read more »

If there’s one thing I’ve learned since I started covering modern smartphone operating systems, it’s that someone out there is trying to get every single one to run on the HTC HD2. While the phone ships with Windows Mobile 6.5, we seen users figure out how to install Windows Phone 7, Google Android, and even Ubuntu 10.10. Now it looks like we can add MeeGo… Read more »

Nokia has released a new plug-in for the Nokia Qt SDK which allows third party app developers to enable native push notifications. In plain English, that means apps like news apps, instant messengers, or social networking tools will be able to let you know when there’s an update more easily. Because the API now supports native push notifications, it means that apps won’t have to… Read more »

The folks behind the new MeeGo operating system for smartphones have announced the minimum hardware requirements to run the upcoming MeeGo 1.2 operating system. Basically in order to play, a handset will need a 600MHz or faster ARM v7 or x86 processor, 512MB or more of RAM, and 512MB or more of storage space. Most higher end smartphones released in the last year or two… Read more »

This week at the MeeGo Conference in Dublin, developers of the mobile operating system showed off the latest builds of MeeGo 1.1 for smartphones. The software is based on the same Linux core as MeeGo for netbooks, tablets, and other devices, but the UI has been completely retooled for smartphones — although it’s still a work in progress. Chippy from CarryPad shot a video fo… Read more »