Nokia to replace Symbian OS with Linux based MeeGo

The Nokia N8, to be released later this year, will be the last N-Series handset running Symbian. From then on it\’s MeeGo all the way.

That\’s not to say that Nokia will be dropping Symbian entirely, but the Finns have long seen it as the perfect OS for spreading the smart phone joy into the less well-off demographic, so it should come as no surprise that its own flagship handsets will be switching to MeeGo.

It also raises the question of which OS will run the N9, which was expected to emerge shortly after the N8. Nokia\’s been getting good press for keeping the price of the N8 down in comparison to the iPhone, but perhaps that\’s in order to make way for a higher-priced iPhone 4 competitor running MeeGo.

Symbian will remain on lower-end devices

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