Can Jolla Become MeeGo?s Saviour? CEO Plans Two Smartphones Already

It was almost a year ago in July that I jumped off the Tube at Oxford Circus in London's West End and wended my way deep into Soho to Nokia's chi-chi central London office. There, I sat down with a handful of other journalists to interact via live video conference with Marko Ahtisaari, Nokia's legendary design guru, about their new smartphone. By this time we'd already had the Burning Platform strategy unveiled by new CEO Stephen Elop. But Ahtisaari unveiled a beautiful, MeeGo-powered smartphone, the N9, and assured the hacks that Nokia was committed to it. It even had Angry Birds! But, with Nokia in bed with Microsoft, we all knew that this would probably be the only MeeGo phone Nokia would produce. Last week Nokia released a major software upgrade for the N9, but it's probably the last upgrade we'll see. Even then, few people even saw a MeeGo-powered N9, basically the shell of what became the Lumia 800 and 900 devices. So what of the poor neglected Meego, the platform that barely existed? Well, Jolla Mobile - a company without even a web site yet - hopes to be its resurrection. In the last couple of days it's emerged that much of the team inside Nokia's MeeGo's development have left to created actual new smartphones based on for the platform. A spokesperson has categorically denied to TechCrunch that the Jolla Mobile will get any Intellectual Property Rights from Nokia to achieve this, but, according to the CEO, we will see two - count 'em - MeeGo phones appear this year. They are even thinking about entirely new products based on MeeGo.

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