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Nokia plans netbook
Talking to Taiwan
Tue Apr 14 2009, 11:17
MOBILE PHONE OUTFIT NOKIA is planning to develop a netbook and has been chatting to the Taiwanese about how to build one to a price.
ECS, which makes cheap and cheerful motherboards, is currently in talks with the Finnish giant and the two are expected to iron out a deal by June. This would mean that Nokia-badged netbooks could appear just in time for Christmas 2009.
The smart money is on Nokia using an ARM-based processor with the Symbian OS. µ
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I doubt it is going to be Symbian. Ito is going to be Maemo. Nokia is working on new version of Maemo (Maemo 5) that supports OMAP3 ARM based CPU. I think both Ubuntu and Maemo are Debian derived.
I currently use old Nokia N800 internet tablet and I like it a lot. N800 uses older Maemo 4. It is grat for web surfing, IM, e-mail, divx watching. There is even a port of torrent client. Basicaly you can cross compile every linux app for Maemo.
I look forward to new netbook from nokia. It is going to be intersting device.
No way in hell are they going to use Symbian. They already have an OS that is used on "almost-netbooks", namely Maemo. Symbian ecosystem lacks pretty much everything users expect from netbooks, including a shell, customizability, track record on non-phones, third party software, upgrade system
Whereas with Maemo, they can just basically throw it out to market.
Personally, I'd rather see them just adding maemo desktop components over a standard Ubuntu distro though (as opposed to having a debian-derivative custom distro)
I would like to see an up to date version of the Psion Series 5mx or 7. They were beautiful. (Well the 5 was)
A Symbian/ARM based netbook could be really usefull now Nokia is porting the QT framework to Symbian. Could we see KDE and all the k apps running on this device?
I really would love to see an arm based netbook, like an oversized smartphone with all day runtime.