Nokia is in a weird position: it’s still the world’s biggest smartphone manufacturer (for certain definitions of “smartphone”), but it’s more or less completely out of the conversation when it comes to the future of handhelds and tablets. All the buzz is focused on the iPhone, Android, Windows 7, and (maybe more now that HP has bought it) webOS. Nokia’s venerable Symbian OS is pretty much out of the running.Thus it’s not a big surprise that the company is desperately reorganizing itself, for the second time in six months. The new configuration creates two different divisions, each responsible for a different market segment: “Mobile Solutions,” which will be putting out the real cutting-edge stuff, and “Mobile Phones,” which will focus on mid-tier feature phones (or, as the press release appears to put it, “feature-rich phones”). The Mobile Phone unit will be putting out S40-based devices, while Mobile Solutions will be selling running S60 and the Linux-based MeeGo — but all indications are that MeeGo, a join project with Intel, is the future.What’s all this have to do with Java? Well, MeeGo, despite being a Linux variant, won’t support Java, unlike the Symbian variants, which can run Java ME apps; MeeGo apps are to be built with the Qt toolkit. This is another potentially prominent smartphone platform that Java won’t get to play on, leaving only the unofficial-Java-based Android as a mobile Java alternative for the future. Though if it makes Java developers feel any better, I have a feeling that MeeGo isn’t exactly going to set the world on fire. Technology IndustryNokia