UPDATE: Video is now live. Check it out after the jump!
We love the Parrot AR Drone indoor chopper, which can be controlled via an iPhone, Android or Symbian phone. Add Meego to that list today too: today at Nokia World, scientists at the Nokia Research Centre showed off the app running on a Nokia N9, all in the name of indoor GPS.
Considering Nokia is now backing Windows Phone and only Windows Phone, we must say its staff continue to do a sterling job of supporting the wonderful N9 and its MeeGo OS. Case in point: it’s even crafted a Spotify app for the Nokia N9 in partnership with the Swedish start-up, complete with offline caching and 3G streaming. It looks, as you’d expect, delicious.
The Spotify Nokia N9 app is in the Ovi Store now and free for Premium subscribers, but really, we have to wonder. Where is the Windows Phone app? Spotify says it’s coming – it already supports the older Windows Mobile – but perhaps it could have got Nokia staff to lend a hand with that platform instead.
Though it’ll never see the light of day in the UK, the Nokia N9 began shipping yesterday in a few select countries. It was Nokia’s first smartphone running on MeeGo, an open source OS that merged Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin platforms. We now know for sure that it will also be Nokia’s last MeeGo smartphone too: just a few hours later, the Linux Foundation killed MeeGo.
That’s right: MeeGo is dead. All hail Tizen!
Catch-up time! As another week draws to a close, it’s time to recount the best stories to have hit Electricpig this week. This weekend we have the latest on the Nintendo 3DS TV service tipped to arrive soon, the latest new Xbox developments, a glimpse of the Nokia N9, a first look at Olympus’ new Pen E-P3 Micro Four Thirds range, and much more.
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Nokia may be making Windows Phone its primary smartphone operating system, but if it doesn’t pester Microsoft to stick some of MeeGo’s greatest features into the Mango update or future versions, how shall we put it? We’re going to have a problem. Read on as we look at the best bits of MeeGo on the Nokia N9 we’d really like to see copied. After all, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?
We’ve just hot footed it from Nokia’s London offices, where we got to grips with the Nokia N9, a MeeGo smartphone that the company appears to be treating like a red headed step child. It’s a crying shame, because what we’ve seen is nothing short of delightful.
Why’s that bad? Allow us to explain.
It’s been a wet week here in the UK. Rather than let the weather get us down, we’re here to help you catch up on the best stories to land on Electricpig this week to help brighten up your day.
This week we have a launch date for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, the latest on a PS3 price drop, reviews of the HTC ChaCha and Sony Ericsson Neo, a video interview with Libertines man Carl Barât and more.
There’s a new Nokia phone! Look! Here’s the Nokia N9 video. Wooooo…oh, no, wait, I just remembered: it’s a MeeGo phone. And as we heard from Intel’s CEO earlier today that Nokia/Intel partnership was the tech equivalent Paul McCarney and Heather Mills’ marriage.
With Steve Ballmer and Microsoft circling like the chubbiest vultures in the desert and Stephen Elop rocking the burning boat metaphors, Nokia needs to have begun its public resurrection by now. Keeping the MeeGo mission going is a gross misuse of time and effort…
