16 September 2009

Nokia Is Surprised With Large Interest
Towards Its First Maemo Powered Smartphone

The most ingenuous and powerful combination of software and hardware ever created has received tremendous buzz from both carriers and consumers and I would say even Nokia has been surprised with the success of its first Maemo powered smartphone and unanimously positive response they were receiving from large majority of participants at its recent Nokia World show in Stuttgart.

Not only consumers but whole mobile industry itself seems somewhat caught by surprise with the release of Nokia N900 and Nokia’s decision to switch its high-end devices from Symbian to Linux based Maemo platform.

But it is not only Maemo, neither the hardware, nor the way it looks, it is openness that offers a huge potential for a flexibility that is not available on other mobile phone operating systems!

"Since we started to show it to larger audience two weeks ago, there has been tremendous buzz and interest. A lot of interest," Ari Jaaksi, vice president for Maemo devices at Nokia, told Reuters on sidelines of a mobile software conference in Amsterdam.

"Now we are finalising the package, software, hardware, marketing campaign. The goal is to get it out in October," Jaaksi said.

Analysts see N900 and following Linux devices as key for Nokia to gain back ground in the coming years, something that market has been waiting for a years, a real game-changer that will help Nokia to finally turn the tide of smartphone war in their favour and control the mobile market again.