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"Former employees of Nokia have teamed up with a mission to resurrect MeeGo, the Finnish firm&amp;#039;s ill-fated smartphone operating system.  The group has created Jolla Mobile, a Finland-based technology startup that will aim to design and develop new phones based on MeeGo, described as &amp;quot;the world&amp;#039;s best smartphone product&amp;quot;.  MeeGo was created by Nokia in partnership with Intel and Samsung in a bid to claw back smartphone market share from Apple&amp;#039;s iOS and Google Android.  However, the operating system had a short-lived existence, as Nokia dropped the software shortly after it made its debut in the Nokia N9 phone.  Struggling phone giant Nokia partnered with Microsoft&amp;#039;s Windows Phone in early 2011, using the OS to power its new generation of smartphones.  My Nokia Blog (via TechRadar) reported that a team of ex-Nokia staffers have got together to resurrect MeeGo under the brand Jolla, apparently pronounced &amp;#039;zholla&amp;#039; or &amp;#039;tjolla&amp;#039;. In the bio on the @jollamobile Twitter page, the startup says: &amp;quot;Jolla continues Nokia&amp;#039;s excellent work on #MeeGo based smartphones together with the #N9 core professionals and #MeeGo community alumni.&amp;quot; The startup&amp;#039;s LinkedIn page adds: &amp;quot;The Jolla team is formed by directors and core professionals from Nokia&amp;#039;s MeeGo N9 organisation, together with some of the best minds working on MeeGo in the communities.  &amp;quot;Nokia created something wonderful - the world&amp;#039;s best smartphone product. It deserves to be continued, and we will do that together with all the bright and gifted people contributing to the MeeGo success story.  &amp;quot;Together with international private investors and partners, Jolla Ltd. will design, develop and sell new MeeGo-based smartphones.  &amp;quot;The Jolla team consists of a substantial number of MeeGo&amp;#039;s core engineers and directors, and is aggressively hiring the top MeeGo talent to contribute to the next generation smartphone production.&amp;quot; A Facebook page for the project reveals that it was founded on October 1, 2011, in Helsinki.  The Jolla Mobile LinkedIn page, meanwhile, shows that its new chief operating officer is Marc Dillon, formerly principal engineer on MeeGo.  After it was dropped by Nokia, parts of MeeGo were picked up by Samsung and used in a new mobile OS collaboration with Intel called Tizen.  Tizen is now operated as a free and open-source Linux operating system, backed by the Linux Foundation.  Posting on Twitter, Jolla Mobile said that it was focused on creating new MeeGo-based smartphones, but would also &amp;quot;work eagerly with any truly open systems&amp;quot;. The project has received a positive reaction online.  Twitter user Juuso Myllyrinne tweeted: &amp;quot;Can&amp;#039;t wait to see what you guys come up with. Meego deserves a second chance.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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