Meet:Mobility Podcast 64 is now available.

Sashca, JKK and Chippy discuss the Nokia news from Fridays announcement and how that impacts MeeGo. We cover new netbook news and discuss MWC 2011

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On todays podcast.

• JKK from JKKmobile – @jkkmobile on Twitter
• Chippy from Carrypad- @Chippy on Twitter
• Sascha from Netbooknews - @sascha_p on Twitter

Nokia  Update
We discuss the following and more:
“MeeGo becomes an open-source, mobile operating system project. MeeGo will place increased emphasis on longer-term market exploration of next-generation devices, platforms and user experiences. Nokia still plans to ship a MeeGo-related product later this year.”
Alberto Torres steps down. (he took over from Ari Jaaksi on the open source work)
Intel need new partners for flagship devices. Nokia probably commited to release at least one Intel/Meego device?
Meego now in ‘smart devices’
one device from Nokia this year.
Qt – No Qt for Windows.

MeeGo devices weren’t happening until later in the year.

MeeGo slowed down open source strategy too much for Nokia

Smartphones are now mainstream, will we see focus on tablets, mids, smart pcs as new business?

MeeGo?  ( jkk: will stay proto as Maemo was )
“MeeGo-related open source device, which we plan to ship later this year. Though our plans for MeeGo have been adapted”

Netbooks
AMD fusion performance numbers. GPU up, CPU down, Battery life down.
Lenovo S10 199 euro, Single core now ‘budget’ category?
ASUS Eee PC R051PEM N550 for 299 Euros
Sunbook. Pixel Qi on netbook. $795 – Price for (10-20% battery life)
No Lenovo Thinkpad x120e (Fusion) for western Europe.

Smart- devices
WebOS TouchPad – Webos, apps, hardware.
Alien Dalvic
bModo 11.6-inch review (Link? Whats this?)
WeTab Rev 2.0 review

MWC

HTC – Flyer?

Samsung – Tab 2 (2 devices?)

Intel  – MeeGo, Appup

LG

RIM Playbook – Android apps
Atrix European version.