I worked in Nokia til december when they sold us. I continued to have access to the nokia intranet upto the point where I resigned. The memo is real and that is elop's speech. Elop is in a real tight spot as is Nokia. The N9 was canned cos the hardware was waaaayy too out of date, instead meego is being retargeted at a new platform with a dual app processor. They are reworking the qt graphics subsystem around a new scenegraph system to improve performance. IMHO its still way too late. Elop I think will select either win7 or android. I would personally go for Android as it does allow UI customisation, however Elop was always a sleeping agent for microsoft so they'll probably go for win7 which IMHO is a terrible mistake.
Hopefully on the 11th he'll kick Mary Mcmental out together with the rest of the OPK yes men on the board. I hold OPK responsible for the complete destruction of a once great company. He was awol most of the time and his idea was to out google google. However they outsourced everything with OVI to a bunch of idiots. You pay peanuts - you get faeces all over the wall.

Here's the entire memo from Elop
http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/news/1054056/

I guess Meego is out of the question since this is what he says about it:

"We thought MeeGo would be a platform for winning high-end smartphones. However, at this rate, by the end of 2011, we might have only one MeeGo product in the market."

Then he goes about its not about a single phone its about an ecosystem such as the OS,apps & tons of other things that flew by Nokia.

i think they have to make impossible to force meego with 3d screen and other hi end stuff and they will be N1 and all that before summer otherwise nokia fans wil no more p.s. sorry for the english

I've held out little hope for Meego just based on the speed of development of Maemo vs Android.

If you go all the way back to the N770, where I started, OS2005 was released in November of 2005. If you start with the N900 and Fremantle, that was released around October 2009.

With Android, 1.0 was released in late September 2008 with 7 more releases (1.1, 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3) between then and December 2010.

Apple, which Nokia seems to be more like with their sole-vendor of the phone approach, has had *29* releases (including minor patches) for the iPhone OS since it was released at the end of June, 2007. Number 30 is due out next week!

It is like Nokia snapped on the clogs and is just going to plod along at a leisurely pace until someone comes up to them and lets them know the race not only started, but you already lost!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history

I love my N900, chunky little beast that it is. The USB port finally broke off last December and I just now got around to disassembling the unit and soldering it back on. However, it has been relegated to portable, wireless computing toy. I bought an HTC MyTouch 4G when the N900 broke and couldn't be happier.

While I will keep the N900, I already see it as the spiritual successor to my old Newton Messagepad. Another device I loved and lament why the company that birthed it was so inept in raising their baby and finally just gave up as it hit that awkward adolescent phase.

Meego had such potential.

blablabla Dualcore XXX/YYY HW cmon! The N8 has ONLY 680Mhz But I am sure it sometimes is better than Android phones that has faster CPU.

Its not always latest HW that makes stuff success. Take a look at Iphone as an example.

if nokia adopts wm or android leaving meego behind, i am outta here in palm ecosystem with N900 as my last nokia device.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/08/n...honest-burnin/

kind of ironic to say something like hardware isn't important, software can win too, when we're talking about Nokia.

I dont want a world where only one big company stands for "freedoom" that scares me *** hell!!!

What Elop is saying does not make sense. Apple made their entire ecosystem from nothing with essentially one single device. They still have one single smartphone.

Android came from nowhere with no ecosystem.

Nokia have everything, they just need to oil some gears and get going. Running away is no solution.

If this really is true, it is shocking and sad But RIM is having an equal "bad" time and not to mention HP/Palm and MS. If Nokia is going WP7 it will be with RIM and possibly HP in a joint venture where MS is NOT dictating all and everything. If those negotiations did not go as planned, it is Android time.

BBC News are now reporting the memo as being genuine! I still call fake. Surely Elop would not be sloppy enough to describe top end phones as 300+ Dollars and low end phones as sub 100 Euros in the same document?