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Nokia has dropped the software project it had been working on that would be designed to compete with Google Android smartphones, according to Reuters. There had also been reports last month that Nokia was axing the Linux-based OS called Meltemi, and today Reuters’ sources say that the platform has been scrapped entirely as part of the company’s cost-cutting strategy, which involved 10,000 layoffs of Nokia employees.
Nokia had originally announced its plans to develop the new software platform In September 2011, which the company had hoped would replace its older Series 40 software in smartphones with more advanced features to better compete against the rise in lower-end Android smartphones. But we never really got any significant hints on the details of the Meltemi OS since Nokia CEO Stephen Elop really only mentioned it briefly back in September.
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Posted: 2012-07-26 19:05:00
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