Jay Hollingum - Works in IT

It looks like yet another operating system is going to be developed for smartphones and mobiles and released to the world. Doing the rounds on the news sites and blogs is that story that Nokia and Intel have joined forces to work on a new OS. The spin is that this Linux based OS will not just be aimed at one hardware platform but can be scaled to be used on smartphones , TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems, or netbooks and anything in between. MeeGo is a merging of Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo projects. With the successful uptake of Android in the mobile world and the related Chrome OS to be released, Windows 7 Mobile doing something to restore Microsoft's credibility, Palm entering the fray with their WebOS, the iPhone OS being so successful with the iPhone, and Symbian to mention but a few, how much more room in the market is there for OSs or is this two global corporations trying to emulate Google's success in their release of Android. Unless, of course...

Looking forward to the release of the  Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 , it seems there's still a little bit of mystery as to it's release date. If SE leave it much longer then newer better Android phones are going to be out, which is a bit of a shame as it looks like the X10 could revive Sony's fortunes somewhat in the smart phone arena. It was good to see Sony going a little open source by using the Android OS, opening it up to the Android Market  and also ditching their own memory sticks in favor of the MicroSD format. The only disappointing thing is that it looks likely to be released with Android 1.6 and not 2.0 or 2.1. Hopefully it can be updated to the newer version of the OS. Release dates for the phone vary from 19th February on play.com  19th Feb on play.com, to  22nd April on expansys.com . Latest news reports rumour 1st March as written on mobiletoday.co.uk . Sony say only that it will be launched in Q1 of 2010. Either way, if SE hang aro...