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Aug
31
2010

MeeGo 1.1 Coming in October 2010, MeeGo 1.2 Six Months Later

Jonne Eilimö | August 31, 2010 11:20 | 0 comments |

According to the official MeeGo Wiki, we will get a final version of MeeGo 1.1 between October 21st and 27th, 2010.

GA, RTW: MeeGo 1.1 Release for Core, Netbooks, Handsets, … (General availability, release to web

Six months after that, between April 21st and 27th, 2011, we’ll get MeeGo version 1.2.

MeeGo 1.2 Release for Core, Netbooks, Handsets, … (General availability, release to web on 2011-04-27)

This follows the same release cycle as what Android is currently following. Please keep in mind that the release schedule is just an target, and things could go wrong with it.

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Jonne Eilimö | August 31, 2010 11:20 | 0 comments |
Aug
23
2010

Nokia N9 Specs Leaked – 1GHz Snapdragon, 4″ OLED Screen, 512MB RAM & 64GB ROM

Jonne Eilimö | August 23, 2010 19:54 | 0 comments | source

If todays rumored spec leak for the Nokia N9 turns out to be true, I think we have a serious competitor coming from Nokia!

Here is what the specs for the Nokia N9 looks now:

  • 4 inch OLED screen (resolution of 800 x 480 pixels)
  • 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 processor
  • 512 MB of RAM
  • 1 GB of system storage
  • 64 GB internal memory
  • 720p HD video recording
  • 802.11 b/g/n, HSPA+
  • A-GPS
  • Bluetooth 2.1

All that with enclosed in an aluminum casing, Nokia’s build quality and MeeGo – this sounds really delicious!

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Jonne Eilimö | August 23, 2010 19:54 | 0 comments | source
Aug
04
2010

MeeGo v1.0 for In-Vehicle Infotainment Released

Jonne Eilimö | August 4, 2010 04:52 | 0 comments | source

The MeeGo for IVI v1.0 release includes:

  • Sample IVI home screen and taskbar. The IVI home screen and taskbar are built with QT 4.6 included in the MeeGo 1.0 core software platform. The taskbar is designed with Automotive Center Console HMI requirements in mind. By default, it appears on the left side of the screen but easy customizations can move it to the right side of the screen to optimize access for the driver or passenger, as desired. The taskbar can be controlled by a Contour ShuttleXpress scroll wheel, touch screen or mouse and is designed to reflect the scroll wheel usage, with the ability to spin through the menu options and make selections or go back by pressing two button or by tapping the touch screen.
  • Sample navigation (Navit) and Bluetooth* hand free dialing (BT-HFP dialer) are included from community upstream projects. The BT-HFP dialer application will be replaced in MeeGo 1.1 with a MeeGo Touch Framework based dialer application, supporting HFP and well integrated with the MeeGo core software platform.
  • Carrick is the UI for the MeeGo 1.0 core software “ConnMan” connection manager.
  • Packages from open source automotive projects are included for audio management, resource management, persistent storage management, CE device management, and system health management

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Jonne Eilimö | August 4, 2010 04:52 | 0 comments | source
Jul
28
2010

New MeeGo for Handsets Screenshots

Jonne Eilimö | July 28, 2010 08:01 | 0 comments |

Nokia just posted 6 new screenshots of MeeGo for handsets on their official Facebook account.

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Jonne Eilimö | July 28, 2010 08:01 | 0 comments |
Jul
10
2010

Video: MeeGo 1.1 on Intel Moorestown Based Phone

Jonne Eilimö | July 10, 2010 18:23 | 0 comments |

Intel Aava MeeGo 1.1

Check out this rather lengthy(16 min) demo of MeeGo 1.1 on an Aava phone. The Aava phone runs on an Intel 1.5GHz Moorestown SoC (system-on-chip).

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Jonne Eilimö | July 10, 2010 18:23 | 0 comments |
Jun
30
2010

MeeGo v1.1 Handset Preview – Images and Video

Jonne Eilimö | June 30, 2010 18:05 | 0 comments |

MeeGo v1.1 Handset Developer Preview was released earlier today, and here you can see it in action.

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Jonne Eilimö | June 30, 2010 18:05 | 0 comments |
Jun
30
2010

MeeGo v1.1 Handset Developer Preview now available

Jonne Eilimö | June 30, 2010 17:30 | 0 comments | source

meego-handset-day1-screenshotsMeeGo.com today announced the availability of MeeGo v1.1 Handset Developer Preview. Those of you wanting MeeGo on the Nokia N900 will still have to wait a little bit more, since N900 support didn’t come with this release. N900 support should follow in the near future.

The MeeGo project is happy to announce “Day 1″ of the MeeGo Handset user experience project. Many of you will remember this “Day 1″ concept from March, when we first made the MeeGo core OS source code available and started development towards the MeeGo 1.0 release. Today, the handset baseline source code is available to the development community. This code is being actively developed as MeeGo 1.1, which is scheduled for release in October. The team has been preparing MeeGo Gitorious with all the sources and infrastructure to perform the weekly builds for MeeGo 1.1 development. The MeeGo UI team has also been busy creating the handset reference user experience and preparing the MeeGo UI design principles and interaction guidelines. This milestone marks the completion of the merger of Moblin and Maemo as major architecture decisions and technical selections have been determined. Today, we are also opening the MeeGo Build Infrastructure.

The MeeGo Project Handset Day 1 includes:

  • MeeGo APIs, incorporating Qt and MeeGo Touch UI Framework (MTF)
  • Subset of the handset reference UI and applications
    • Status Bar: clock, network, Bluetooth, 3G connection, notifications, and battery charge
    • Home Screen
    • Lock Screen
    • Application Launcher
    • Virtual Keyboard
    • Applications: Dialer, SMS, Browser, Contacts, and Photo Viewer
  • MeeGo Core OS (including the middleware components)
  • Hardware adaptation support for Intel Atom-based handset (Moorestown) and ARM-based Nokia N900

More details are in the Handset Day 1 release notes.

Valtteri Halla & Imad Sousou
MeeGo Technical Steering Group

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Jonne Eilimö | June 30, 2010 17:30 | 0 comments | source
Jun
29
2010

Analysis of the Nokia N9 Video

Jonne Eilimö | June 29, 2010 05:25 | 0 comments |

A video of what is said to be the Nokia N9 leaked today. On video, this device runs Symbian, but it has previously been rumored that this device will in fact run on MeeGo. This could be of course just to test the hardware, if they have a more function complete Symbian^3 release than MeeGo.

Things that suggest this in fact is a Nokia-built prototype:

  • Scandinavian Å, Ä, Ö characters on the keyboard: Nokia has a lot of its RND going on in Finland.
  • Type: RM-626: This is a known naming scheme for Nokia products. The N8-00 is RM-596.
  • 0591821 Product Code seen in video: It ‘looks’ like a Nokia product code. The code is not in use for a currently available phone (no firmware updates available). The nearest would be 0591817 (E90, E71 or E66), and 0591824 (5800).
  • Opening mechanism under the keyboard: Looks like one seen on the N97 mini.

What makes me suspicious about this prototype:

  • Symbian!
  • Camera on the back: Lens looks really crappy, not Carl-Zeiss quality.

I like the looks of this device. It sure looks like a N8-00, but with an added QWERTY-keyboard. The added keyboard hasn’t made it much thicker than a N8. Good to see a beautiful product made by Nokia.

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Jonne Eilimö | June 29, 2010 05:25 | 0 comments |
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