MeeGo OS lives again thanks to ex-Nokia employees

When Nokia decided to embrace Windows Phone, its own freshly-developed MeeGo smartphone OS – as seen on the Nokia N9 – fell by the wayside. But it’s coming back from the dead, and it’s a group of former Nokia employees that are doing the resurrecting.

MeeGo, developed in conjunction with Intel, was originally seen by Nokia as an ideal platform for its future tablets, but Finnish startup Jolla Mobile will launch a range of smartphones sporting the OS. The company’s COO Marc Dillon spent 11 years at Nokia, and was the principal engineer for MeeGo, which goes a long way towards explaining why Jolla’s chosen to use the Linux-based OS in its first phone.

A company statement also referred to MeeGo as “the world’s best smartphone product”, and a new handset will be revealed by the end of 2012.

[Via CNET]

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