The MeeGo-based Nokia N9 came out to be a great smartphone that exceeded all expectations. Yet one question remained open – will this new Nokia smartphone have the necessary number of apps for adequate work? After all, MeeGo is a relatively new OS, and it doesn’t have many applications yet…
The French-Swiss Myriad Group, however, says that the future owners of the Nokia N9 (and the Nokia N950 as well) have nothing to worry about. The company promises to adapt Myriad’s Alien Dalvik – the Java virtual machine that allows Android applications to work on other, non-Android platforms – for the Nokia N9 and the Nokia N950, so we’ll be able to run our favorite Android apps on these two smartphones.
The developers claim that they won’t need to make changes to the codes of the Android apps to port them; they also promise the applications won’t lose their performance on the MeeGo OS.
I think this is a great idea, since the success of any smartphone is based on two things – on the specs of the device and on the ecosystem of good and useful applications. The Nokia N9 has no problem in terms of specs (3.9-inch AMOLED touchscreen, TI OMAP3630 1GHz processor with PowerVRSGX530 GPU, 8MP camera powered with Carl Zeiss optics and super wide 28mm lens and many, many others), and if the app problem is solved by Myriad Group, the smartphone will succeed for sure.
And here is an interesting video by Myriad Group:
