The recent news about Nokia switching to WP7 has frustrated and saddened many people, especially around here.

But no matter how dark the times may seem: never say die! I know it sounds cliche, but for any movement, it is the attitude that counts. One can be cynical yet persistent as long as the idea of openness and freedom remains in sight to inspire the community.

So lets keep our spirits up, there are still indicators that not all is lost.

I'll list some of the positive developments, let's see if we can expand on these:

Obviously there is Intel stating that they will continue their effort with Meego, in order to cope with ARM creeping into their lucrative low-end market.

Then there is this teaser screenshot about a potential Meego phone by Intel. We all know about the Aava dev platform and the GW990 concept by LG (unfortunately not put to market) both already running Intel Moorestown a couple of months ago, so there has definitely been done some research by other parties than Nokia. The Aava itself is no longer available for purchase though :/

Then there is AMD (!) that joined Meego about three months ago (for similar reasons as Intel I would suppose). They have developed their low power Fusion "APU", and have apparently presently quite a committed open source department. Obviously Fusion is more targeted towards Netbooks/Nettops, but they might also be looking into the Smartphone sector as both worlds grow closer and closer in the future.

Furthermore, there is also still the hope to be able to run Meego smoothly on phones originally designed for Android.

What do you guys think?

MeeGo may not be dead afterall. For example ZTE is exploring possibe adoption of MeeGo. If this happens, it really adds insult to injury for Nokia...

What would make more sense is to actively develop the phone app (ofono), write open source versions of proprietory drivers and abandon Meego?

ARM versions of other linux-based distros already exist and seem to run quite well.

Intel shows Medfield based phone on MWC at around 1:11 on this vid. It's running Android, but obviously should also run Meego. At the end he takes a jab at ARM's CEO.

Would be interesting to see benchmark comparisons between Medfield and ARM's newest dual cores (and how overclockable they are )

some should show up soon, since they're "sampling" the chip, that means they send it out to other companies to test out... You know how that goes.