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Nokia & Intel Unite To Create MeeGo (a Linux Based OS)

Continuing in the battle of providing superior User Experience with an open platform strategy, Nokia & Intel have announced a partnership to merge Nokia’s Maemo OS and Intel’s Moblin OS giving birth to the Linux based MeeGo OS. This is going to be the second major strategic move by Nokia after announcing Symbian as an open source platform. It will definitely create some disrupting competitive waves to the competitors like Google with open source Android, Apple with Mac OSX and Microsoft’s to be launched Windows Mobile 7.

Smartphones War Part II: Smartphone OS the differentiating factor

In the previous post we discussed the growth of mobile phone industry and the contribution of smartphones to it. We conducted a simple industry analysis understanding the externalities that affects the smartphone market and the players involved. We also identified that the smartphone OS is the primary differentiating factor in satisfying the priorities and needs of the users which integrates with their mobile phones