The release date got pushed back as Nokia started a new keyboardless design called the N9-01, codenamed Lankku, which was likely the basis for the N9 that Nokia unveiled this week.

That design, which was known internally as N9-00, was dropped. The original MeeGo-based N9 prototype had a slide-out physical keyboard and was thought to be scheduled for a Q1 2011 launch. What this means is that the distinction will be little more than an implementation detail as far as users and application developers are concerned.Ī closer inspection of Nokia's MeeGo strategy shows that this hybrid approach is entirely consistent with the roadmap that Espoo was espousing earlier this year.Īnother major point of confusion is the relationship between the new N9 and a leaked prototype with the same name that showed up on the radar last year. It seems sort of dubious on the surface to call the software MeeGo when it's really still Maemo, but the hybrid is apparently designed in such a way that it has full API compatibility with MeeGo 1.2.

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