World’s biggest mobile phone maker Nokia Inc. and software giant Intel Corp. announce on Monday a deal that would help both companies develop top-class Smartphone software that can directly compete against Microsoft, Apple, and Google.
Based on the initial agreement Nokia’s Linux Maemo software platform will merge its expertise with Intel’s Moblin, which is also a Linux open-source software developer, to create a new mobile phone operating system called MeeGo.
Strand Consult chief and owner John Strand said that the both Intel and Nokia have recognized that the only way to beat market leaders Apple, Microsoft, and Google is to introduce the new MeeGo to more devices.
“However, both companies also failed to realize that it is not about just the mere scale or numbers. But it is also about what consumer will like. It like bees, they do not just go for the biggest garden but the most beautiful flowers,” Strand pointed out.
To date, many of the consumers are lending toward the Smartphone markets, which can give them more power and control to what they want to have in their handheld devices. So far, iPhone and Google Android devices, as well as Research in Motion’s Blackberry, have been dominating the market with millions of sales worldwide.
Also, both Intel and Nokia’s release of the new MeeGo may be spoiled by the release of a Microsoft mobile phone platform called Windows Phone 7. Many of the experts and consumers have been anticipating the release of the new phone OS, which could further provider stiffer competition against the MeeGo.
Nokia was able to release its only Maemo-based phone called N900. It is a result of a five-year development program in a bid to boost the company’s Smartphone sales.
To date, Nokia still dominates the mobile phone market but is slowly losing ground to higher end phones. Meanwhile, Intel hopes to get more of its chips into Smartphones.
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