Monday, January 24, 2011

Nokia MeeGo tablet (or phone) prototype spotted in the wild?

The folks at the Mobile-Review forum have dug up an image of a new portable device from Nokia running the MeeGo Linux operating system. There aren't many details at this point, and it's not clear if this is an early image of an actual product that will soon ship or just a test platform that Nokia is using internally. But it certainly doesn't look like any existing Nokia phone.

The logo is in the center of the bezel instead of off to the side, and the bezel is thinner than on most Nokia smartphones. Based on the pictures, it appears that this little guy is probably the size of a (very) large smartphone with a 4 to 5 inch display rather than a 7 to 10 inch tablet like the ones all the cool kids seem to be clamoring for these days.

But as smartphone screens get bigger and bigger, the lines between phones and tablet continues to blur. The fact that MeeGo is designed to run on phones, tablets, netbooks, and other devices certainly doesn't hurt the line-blurring either.

via My Nokia Blog

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