Nokia’s N8 failed miserably when compared to the likes of iPhones and Android phones in US, and they’ve learned a good lesson with that. Now the Finnish firm is ditching the Symbian for a much rock-solid MeeGo powered by Atom. Yes, Intel’s Atom.

Under a new Canadian-born CEO who spent much of his time working in the US, Nokia has joined Intel to roll up Maemo 6 and Moblin into MeeGo with Nokia’s first Maemo 6 MeeGo/Harmattan handset pushed into 2011. Simultaneously, Intel has also been doing its best to show its new Moorestown platform as a powerful ARM alternative, even showing off MeeGo handsets exploiting a Lincroft SoC and Atom processor core. And Intel has said that Medfield-based smartphones (Moorestown’s successor) would arrive in the middle of 2011.

It seemed that after selling off its ARM division, Intel is still keen to come back to the mobile and compact world where its X86 cannot rule. Nokia N9 is said to launch a new Nokia N9 slider smartphone with a 1.2GHz Atom processor at Mobile World Congress in February. Will the N900 successor really win back some Nokia fans?

SOURCE via Engadget