Nokia announcement

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Tuesday 21 December 2010, Adam Celarek wrote:
> Hi,
> this is a bit of a reply to an old thread from Inge with the same title  
> [1].
> 
> In an austrian newspaper, there was a report about nokia switching to  
> windows phone 7 [2]. In [3] there is quite the same news in english.
> 
> I'm thinking of buying a new nokia smartphone (ether n8 or c7), but now  
> i'm even less sure, how much future there is for s^3 and meego.

Well, I'd personally never buy a Symbian phone -- not even the N8 which is really pretty cool. Lack of a terminal would put me off. And nobody involved with Nokia can say anything about unreleased hardware, no matter how impressive it is. 

> Do you have any hints, or info if nokia is abandoning the development of  
> calligra mobile (as assumed by boud for instance [4])?

As far as I know, Nokia always intended FreOffice/Calligra Mobile to become a community-based project that runs on maemo/meego -- that's why we had this big effort last summer to get a dozen or more students involved. I'm not sure what new things are in store for Calligra Mobile, though I have some plans of my own.

As I've mentioned earlier this summer, there's yet another user interface on top of the koffice core, and I don't know how many more there will be. Rumours from companies outside Nokia indicate a strong interest, though -- like we had for some time the Vietnamese guys embedding KWord in their meego tablet or the German guy, Zaebos, who needed kword + annotation for a mobile medical device.

> 
> 
> [1] http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/calligra-devel/2010-December/000312.html
> [2]  
> http://derstandard.at/1292462293420/Bericht-Nokia-plant-Windows-Phone-7-Handys
> [3]  
> http://www.thewirelessnews.com/58699104/nokia-microsoft-talk-to-develop-windows-phone-7-phones-on-nokia-hardware/
> [4] http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/calligra-devel/2010-December/000319.html
> 
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