According to Reuters, yes, and all because of some slutty-slut-slut Linux OS named Maemo, said to be the company’s new high-end handset platform. Nokia’s first Maemo indiscretion handset’s said to be landing next week, and probably looks something like this.
https://gizmodo.com/more-nokia-rx-5-n900-tablet-details-first-maemo-5-scre-5341484
Nokia will try again to tackle Apple Inc’s iPhone in the top-end of the handset market with a bet on Linux software, several industry sources told Reuters.
Top handset maker Nokia will show its first high-end phone running on Maemo, a version of Linux, next week at the annual Nokia World event in Stuttgart, Germany, the sources said
Come to think of it, it is pretty weird that the phone-sized, phone-shaped, phone-button-having N900 has until recently been consistently assumed to be a tablet, even though the prospect of a QWERTY Maemo handset has been openly discussed for well over a year now, and explicitly predicted as far back as October. There may still be a gutted tablet version, but this thing has the heart, soul and body of a smartphone—I’d say this is what Reuters is talking about when they say “Maemo handset”, even if they don’t know it.
https://gizmodo.com/fresh-shots-of-the-nokia-rx-5-tablet-prototype-5333007
Kicked out of the high end of Nokia’s product line, Symbian—which remember, they recently plunged nearly $400m into—would be relegated to the dregs of Nokia’s product line, where it would presumably, eventually, wither and die. Sad!
Anyway, Maemo: It handles great on a tablet, but nobody really knows how it’ll translate to a phone. That said, the N900 is largish and has a QWERTY-shaped crutch, so expectations, so majestically shattered last month, are back on high. [Reuters]
https://gizmodo.com/nokia-n97-review-nokia-is-doomed-5308440
