Nokia plans netbook
Talking to Taiwan
Tuesday, 14 April 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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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.
I would like to see an up to date version of the Psion Series 5mx or 7. They were beautiful. (Well the 5 was)
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 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.