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?
Doug Fisher, Vice President of Intel’s Software and Solutions Group and General Manager of Intel’s System Software Division, said in an interview to Forbes that the platform is on track, but smartphones with MeeGo on board will not be available until the first half of 2011.
Here is what Forbes wrote:
MeeGo phones and tablets are in the works, but consumers will have to wait until next year to see and purchase them. Fisher said handsets will debut in the first half of 2011, perhaps at one of the tech industry’s large trade shows.
MeeGo 1.1 for Handsets should be available later this month. The Nokia N9 is rumored to be the first smatphone to run on MeeGo 1.1. Maybe we’ll see the Nokia N9 announcement at CES in January, 2011?
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
