MeeGo to run on all Nokia N-series devices after N8

Confirming something which has been coming for a long time, Nokia have announced that the recently launched "N8" will be the last N-series device running Symbian; with future devices in the range running MeeGo. Engadget, in reporting the news, said, Nokia will naturally keep Symbian around -- of course there's a whole Symbian^4 to come -- but will utilize it on more mass market devices as it seeks to push smartphones further down the product hierarchy. So it's not necessarily bad news, as such, it means we'll likely see Symbian trickle down to handsets priced more like featurephones and less like miniaturized laptops. The biggest impact of this, in your editor's opinion, will be the political impact on the top brass at Nokia, who've seen Symbian so intrinsically linked to their high end strategy for so long.