Another mobile operating system...

Slept late, woke up late. Opened my browser and voila! Another operating system from the two biggest companies in the world. Nokia and Intel. Nokia, the largest cell phone manufacturer and Intel, the biggest chip maker, must be facing enormous pressure from Apple, Research in Motion, Microsoft, and AMD, to force the birth of a new operating system, the so-called MeeGo.

How in the world do they pick OS names?

MeeGo, if you look it up in the Wikipedia, is "a short-lived American science fiction sitcom that aired on CBS in 1997. It's a 9,000-year-old shape-shifting alien from the planet Marmazon 4.0".

How in the universe do they pick planet names?

Anyway, here's a few backgrounder info from different sources regarding MeeGo, the shape-shifting OS that's about to pop-out of the belly of Nokia and Intel.

MeeGo, is a new operating system that can run on advanced smartphones, netbooks, connected TVs, and tablet computers is arriving this second quarter of 2010 courtesy of Nokia and Intel. MeeGo, as it is called, is a merging of Nokia's Maemo and Intel's Moblin. MeeGo will support both Intel's Atom and ARM architectures. System and developer tools are expected to be released in the coming weeks and is based on Qt which will allow developers to build once and run the application on multiple platforms.

Sounds good, doesn't it? But whatever happened to the venerable Symbian? After being acquired by Nokia in 2008 and its software released into Open source world in February 2010, is it going to be the end?

Nope! According to Nokia, Symbian will continue to be the mobile OS of choice for low-end phones and not so smart smartphones. Poor Symbian.

So, here I am, wondering if this will be the operating system that will finally deal the iPhone's OS the death blow. Wondering, wondering, wondering...