lanigerous@feddit.uk to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoThat time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unitwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1490arrow-down18file-text
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minus-squareCossty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months agoI read some articles in the past that before was Nokia bought they worked on some new os. Idk if it was based on android, but I think it might have been Linux. I don’t remember. Microsoft, after the purchase, of course flushed it.
minus-squaretargetx@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·6 months agoMaemo and later Meego yes… I had a Nokia N900 and it was an awesome phone. Basically Debian in your pocket, easily accessible terminal with root etc.
minus-squarePersi@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·6 months agoIt would depend on whether you think elop was a Microsoft mole al along 😉. By the time of the Microsoft acquisition, focus had already shifted to Windows phones.
I read some articles in the past that before was Nokia bought they worked on some new os. Idk if it was based on android, but I think it might have been Linux. I don’t remember. Microsoft, after the purchase, of course flushed it.
Maemo and later Meego yes… I had a Nokia N900 and it was an awesome phone. Basically Debian in your pocket, easily accessible terminal with root etc.
It would depend on whether you think elop was a Microsoft mole al along 😉.
By the time of the Microsoft acquisition, focus had already shifted to Windows phones.