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 ;)
Pocketnow has had the chance to talk with a Nokia representative who told that a MeeGo announcement is still on track for late 2010. This comes after Intel said that there will not be any handset announcements with MeeGo before early 2011.
It remains to be seen if Nokia will actually announce a final device with MeeGo on board before the end of this year. Maybe we’ll see the announcement by Nokia during this year, but shipping of the product in early 2011?
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.
MeeGo.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
Here is a screenshot of what HDBlog.it claims to be a dialer from a coming MeeGo release. As you might know, MeeGo is the outcome of what Nokia and Intel thinks Linux should look and function like on almost any device. Eventually we’ll see MeeGo on computers, airplanes, phones, cars, tablets and almost anything you can think of that has an internet connection.
MeeGo 1.0 was released a while ago. We will see better support for phones and touch screens in the coming 1.1 release, that is set to be released some time in October.
