Nokia used their Conversations blog to announce that a glossy white color alternative of the Nokia N9 is on its way. All of the other colors are matte, so this is a nice new addition to the N9 collection! The new color will arrive by the end of this year. First up for delivery is the 64GB version, followed by the smaller capacity options.
They also wrote that a software update is in its finishing stages, meaning that we’ll see PR 1.2 released before the end of this year.
Changes in PR1.2:
The update includes usability improvements, like music controls keys from the lock screen or closing apps by swiping them down by default and NFC tag reading is also added.
Eldar Murtazin just wrote an interesting little Tweet. According to Mr. Murtazin, Samsung is interested in overtaking MeeGo from Intel, and continue developing the platform further. The news come just a few hours after we learned that Intel will not continue developing MeeGo.
MeeGo was originally a joint project by Nokia and Intel. When Nokia decided to go Windows Phone only, they naturally also withdrew from the MeeGo project. Intel has ever since been developing the platform in-house, but this will apparently change in the future.
Please take this with a grain of salt since we haven’t gotten an official statement from Intel or Samsung.
Intel has allegedly cancelled development of the MeeGo platform due to lack of interest from hardware manufacturers. Intel and Nokia originally created the MeeGo platform to bring a Linux-based OS to smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, netbooks and in-vehicle systems. Once Nokia decided to change their main smartphone strategy to Windows Phone, the whole MeeGo platform was left on thin support. Now also Intel is planning to withdraw from the project, and no-one are actually working on developing it. I guess this is the final sentence for the platform if this actually turns out to be true. We’ll see if some other developer will pick up the development process of MeeGo, but until that happens, I consider this platform dead.
sapiensbryan, a YouTube user, has posted 10 hands-on videos of a Nokia N9 on his YouTube account. The videos give you a pretty good idea of how the software works on the Nokia N9.
Just a short BTW, I’m attending MeeGo Summit FI, in Tampere Finland, April 15-16, 2011.
I hope to hear some news on MeeGo’s future. Be sure to follow our Twitter / RSS feed to get notified when a new post is made. Most of the sessions will be held by Nokia’s staff, so it should be interesting!
Mozilla Firefox 4 for Android and Maemo is now available as a release candidate in more than 10 languages from the Android Market and for download on your Maemo device.
This release offers faster scrolling, better responsiveness with Firefox Sync and improves the overall user experience of Firefox. Firefox 4 for Android and Maemo brings the performance and customization of Firefox to mobile devices with features like Firefox Sync, Awesome Screen, tabbed browsing and Firefox Add-ons, to create a personalized and effortless mobile browsing experience.
MeeGo v1.1 for Handsets and Netbooks was released today. This enables you to download it and install it on for instance your Nokia N900!
You can download your copy of MeeGo v1.1 for Handsets and Netbooks here. By digging a little deeper in that folder structure, you can find the binaries for MeeGo v1.1 for the Nokia N900, or then you can follow this link ;)
This is one lovely thing to see, the Nokia N900 dual booting MeeGo and Maemo. This was made possible by the firmware update that the Nokia N900 received a few days ago.Today, we wrote about a how-to guide on what you need to do to get the Nokia N900 to run MeeGo.
A short video showing the Nokia N900 running both the Maemo and MeeGo operating systems. Many thanks go to the MeeGo N900 hardware adaptation team for all of their hard work in making this possible.
