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**Prescience500** · 13 February 2011, 04:25 AM

This is such a shame. I was really looking forward to a bunch of hot, new MeeGo smartphones. Android is great and all, but the problem with it is that it uses java. MeeGo doesn't need java. I was hoping that MeeGo would help liberate the linux smartphone from java.

**Ex-Cyber** · 13 February 2011, 04:50 AM

Originally posted by grantek View Post

What would the new fork of Qt be called? Libret?

I'd go with "Rt" (which you can pronounce like "art" if you feel like it). But I'm not a marketing guy or a KDE guy, so whatever.

**V!NCENT** · 13 February 2011, 07:17 AM

Get your hate machine going http://www.msqt.org/

**RealNC** · 13 February 2011, 07:50 AM

I LOL'ed

**drag** · 13 February 2011, 08:07 AM

Originally posted by GreatEmerald View Post

Yes they do:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/12/n...rise-to-intel/

To bad Intel sucks and cannot be trusted with software development.

Yeah sure I use their drivers and will continue to recommend their hardware because of it, but they won't do a good job on anything 'large'.

**aussiebear** · 13 February 2011, 08:39 AM

*Scratches chin*

I guess if push comes to shove...

KDE Free Qt Foundation
=> http://www.kde.org/community/whatisk...foundation.php

**entropy** · 13 February 2011, 09:16 AM

Originally posted by Ex-Cyber View Post

I'd go with "Rt" (which you can pronounce like "art" if you feel like it). But I'm not a marketing guy or a KDE guy, so whatever.

What about 'Kt'?
Easy to advertise with a nice woman.

**Ex-Cyber** · 13 February 2011, 11:55 AM

Originally posted by entropy View Post

What about 'Kt'?
Easy to advertise with a nice woman.

That's taken, sort of.

**GreatEmerald** · 13 February 2011, 01:32 PM

Originally posted by drag View Post

To bad Intel sucks and cannot be trusted with software development.

Yeah sure I use their drivers and will continue to recommend their hardware because of it, but they won't do a good job on anything 'large'.

Looks like they're better than you think:

Intel promises, teases MeeGo smartphone and tablet for MWC

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/13/intel-promises-teases-meego-smartphone-and-tablet-for-mwc/

Lookie here. Intel may have been the jilted bride left at the altar by Nokia, but it's not giving up on MeeGo just yet. The above poster has been hung up here in Barcelona, in the area us humble journalists still aren't in allowed yet, and shows a smartphone and tablet running Intel's Linux variant as their OS. There are plenty of details to pore over, such as the multiplicity of home screen items on the tablet that includes Big Buck Bunny -- a favorite for testing HD video playback -- in its top right corner; the handset, meanwhile, could very well be that Aava Mobile device we've been hearing about lately. MWC is opening its doors tomorrow, so even if Intel doesn't announce these devices in full, we'll snoop its booth out and find out for ourselves.

Even includes the specialised tablet UX they were developing.

**Jedibeeftrix** · 13 February 2011, 01:43 PM

My response, for what it is worth, is that while this is definitely not a result i ever wanted to see, it is worth remembering that Nokia will still be investing >around< half a billion annually in the broader MeeGo ecosystem after this change in direction.

While MeeGo is not now going to become one of the 'big-three' or the lead Nokia platform, it probably does have a healthy a viable future as a niche platform.

Nokia & Microsoft – And what it means for QT and MeeGo.

http://jedibeeftrix.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/nokia-microsoft-and-what-it-means-for-qt-and-meego/

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