Microsoft never said they are making Windows Phone 7 exclusive to Nokia. They are only allowing Nokia to change whatever they want in the UI, and Elop has stated they won't even exercise those rights. Nokia is on the path of being just another manufacturer with WP7. Add in some crappy hardware choices by the management and their shares will tumble enough so MS can easily buy them out.

HTC and other manufacturers probably don't care about MeeGo or the MS-Nokia deal. All OS agnostic manufacturers probably wanted to check MeeGo out when it was finished, and have a working prototype in case the market turns bad for them in Android/WP7 land. Now it will take something else to happen for them to get behind an unfinished OS that just lost some major support.

Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Dell have significant presence in the PC market and maybe Intel can strike a deal with one or a few of them.

Edit: Since Samsung owns their own ARM factory I guess they can be ruled out, even though MeeGo runs on ARM. Intel will only benefit from the handset version of MeeGo if their x86 Atom processors are being used.

http://mynokiablog.com/2011/02/13/me...ablet-for-mwc/

Guys, hate to be a pessimist but for somebody to make Meego handsets, somebody else has to sell Meego to that somebody. The question is who? If Meego is open sourced, who has the commercial incentives or business reasons to sell Meego?

The only place I see Meego now is IVI. At least Intel has the incentive there.

Regards.

Intel wants MeeGo, and has a pressing business need to push MeeGo forward. Without GNU/Linux and open source, Intel cannot sell a competitive mobile chipset.

Intel handset's will probably feature x86 architecture instead of ARM.
So we'll be able to run lot's of closed binaries in Wine.
To hell with the appstore if I can play thousands of games in Wine.

If any manufactuer, maybe Intel brings out a meego phone in the next weeks/months, its the best change to get many people from the maemo community to meego... and the maemo community is the best of maemo.

fyi

http://twitter.com/#!/chippy/status/37817879051255809

Looks like at least Acer will release a "mobile meego device", whatever that means.

probably a tablet looking what acer have been doing for long.

This is true, if i was nokia, i'd be looking at the repo download figues and thinking "now if each one of those had cost £1....."

But Intel don't tend to make consumer devices, do they? There may be a MeeGo-handset developed by a company which includes Intel tech, of course, but it won't be branded Intel. The question is, which company might release such a thing?