Intel Processor for Nokia MeeGo

Good news for fans of Nokia because the world’s largest mobile phone vendor is likely to soon use high-speed processors made by Intel. If the news is confirm, before the end of the year will release its first mobile phone.

The second generation of Intel Atom processors previously codenamed Moorestown was officially available starting Tuesday (05/04/2010) then. Intel claimed the first phone that will use these processors will be available later this year and using MeeGo platform, open source operating system based on the result of the merger between Intel Moblin and Nokia Maemo.

“You’ll see devices with Moorestown and Meego began the end of 2010,” said Pankaj Kedia, director of global ecosystem programs Intel mobile internet devices as reported by Pocket-Lint, Wednesday (05/05/2010). He was not sure whether the first mobile phone is Nokia.

However, implicitly Nokia said the same. A spokesman for Nokia said it will use MeeGo start later this year. “We hope to produce first MeeGo device later this year,” the source Nokia.

If true, Nokia will shift the LG. Earlier, during the Mobile World Congress 2010, LG is showing off LG GW990, which become as the first mobile phone with Intel Moorestown platform and Moblin. However, recently rumored LG cancel the production.

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