Nokia’s latest mobile operating system Maemo, launched beginning of October in N900 handset didn’t turn out as expected. At the same time, the processor giant Intel is still waiting for the best opportunity to enter the mobile world. The cooperation between Nokia and Intel has been rumored for a while in the industry and in blogs and finally it is announced today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Maemo + Moblin = MeeGo

This is the new formula that Nokia and Intel put in place to fight Google Android. Watch the video below to check the different point of views from both partners regarding this cooperation.

Next month, Nokia will release the new smart phone N900 that will run on Maemo 5 operating system. In 2008, Nokia acquired Symbian, the leading OS in the “smart mobile device” market, also known as Symbian OS. According to Nokia, Maemo 5 is completely different from Symbian, Windows Mobile, Iphone OS or Google Android since it is regarded as the technology that will computer capabilities to the mobile phone.

The OS is an open source and based on Debian Linux. However, software improvements is only a part of migrating computer capabilities to mobile phone.
Maemo 5 introduced a completely redesigned finger-touch UI, cellular phone feature, and live multitasking on the Maemo Dashboard. But what about processor performance? Battery usage?
It was said before that Nokia and Intel will have a cooperation which will allow Intel to enter the mobile phone market. But Nokia has chosen the ARM CortexTM-A8 processor for the N900 smart phone.
Watch the N900 promo video below. Read More »

At Nokia World 2009 in Stuttgart, Germany, Nokia Research Center showed a new concept in user experience: Nokia Mixed Reality
The concept features three concepts:

• Gaze-tracking eyewear which allows the user to select and browser with the eyes
• 3D Audio
• Haptic wrist device to feel and fetch media through gesture and touch

This concept allows to you to experience immersion and effortless navigation in an Augmented Reality environment. New types of interactions involving near-to-eye displays, gaze direction tracking, 3D audio, 3D video, gesture and touch. Through these new types of social linkages people will be connected in innovative ways between the physical and digital worlds, as described on Nokia Research Center Website

Take a look at this video to get an idea about Nokia’s vision of future technology. Read More »

Nokia announced few days ago in a press release its new mobile financial service, Nokia Money which will offer to consumers basic financial services access from their mobile like sending money to another person using the person’s mobile number, paying for goods and services, paying utility bills or recharging prepaid SIM cards. Nokia says to have designed it to be easy to use and as simple as making a phone call. The service is based on the Obopay platform that Nokia invested in earlier this year.
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