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Nokia’s MeeGo device arch quits
The VP in assign of Nokia’s MeeGo Devices has resigned. Ari Jaaksi confirmed to Finland’s Talous Sanomat which he quiescent last week. According to a Nokia orator his departure does not start MeeGo’s rollout schedule that had called for a first device to be delivered prior to the end of 2010. We’ve reliable this with Nokia as good, who tells us which an “refurbish upon MeeGo” (note a shake room in which phrase) will be voiced prior to a finish of the year.
In case you’re gripping lane, Jaaksi’s depart follows the high-profile exits of Nokia’s former CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo (replaced by Stephen Elop) and a head of Nokia Mobile Solutions, Anssi Vanjoki. Notably, Nokia’s MeeGo group picked up Palm’s Peter Skillman as the head of MeeGo User Experience as well as Services during a same period.
It’s also value observant which only yesterday Mobile-Review’s Eldar Murtazin pronounced which Nokia’s N9 hardware is “near perfect” though a MeeGo software build is “not so good during the impulse.” Given all this, you can’t see how Nokia could presumably boat its initial MeeGo handset — the device Nokia hopes to position opposite a iPhone 4 as well as best Android handsets in a US — in 2010, do you?
[Thanks, JJ Ehto]