Nokia N900 To Get First Meego Build Later This Month!?

[Apocalypso]

Nokia N900 To Get First MeeGo Build Later This Month!?



Nokia and Intel's joint announcement at Mobile World Congress brings new value to using the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework.

Nokia and Intel said they will work together to create MeeGo, a Linux platform that supports multiple mobile hardware architectures, including mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, media phones, connected TVs, and in-vehicle infotainment systems.

Qt is MeeGo's native development framework, meaning developers will be able to write MeeGo applications once, then easily port them to this newly expanded range of devices and pla… .. .

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Sincerely yours,
Teo

[Evolution]

Hope they manage to.. Really looking forward to this.

[Mata]

Oh, i did not believe for this before..
I thought N900 will be the only maemo device without support to "upgrade" to meego..

[ROLAN900D]

Pleased to hear this Teo!
Thanks...

I have to see what the fuzz is all about...

[enej]

I really hope this is true... cant wait!

[Mikey Tommo]

but this doesnt mean that there will be a version of meego that we can flash our devices with. does it?

[alphacompton]

To me, this news means just that... earlier with the announcement of Meego many people started to feel that os upgrades would be out of the scope of Maemo and Intel for the N900. Many people were fairly certain that the N900 would receive Maemo 6 and some in the community expressed devotion to helping the N900 keep up with current OS'es. I feel that this is just proof that the N900 will not be forgotten and will be kept up to date. (The phone isn't even 6 consumer months old) wouldn't make sense to leave people in the dark with a recently purchased phone. Anyway,Maemo and Intel claim that their OS is highly scalable and can work on so many different types Devices, it's only fitting that the N900 is exactly the type of device that Meego needs to run well on to succeed ( A smartphone/mobile computer).

[Crashdamage]

but this doesnt mean that there will be a version of meego that we can flash our devices with. does it?

It will not be a finished, fully functional MeeGo replacement for Maemo, no. It's meant only as a starting point for software developers and/or a community-supported MeeGo for the N900, should an 'official' Nokia-built full release of MeeGo for the N900 never happen (it still could).

IOW, even though Nokia has not yet committed themselves to releasing a completed MeeGo OS on the N900, this is still very good news since Nokia is doing the heavy lifting of getting the basic MeeGo OS running on the N900, saving the MeeGo/Maemo community a lot of work. And it gives software developers interested in writing MeeGo apps a device to work with MeeGo loaded on it. So a big step towards both MeeGo and more software on the N900.

[Nuno Pereira]

Crashdamage, from what i've read untill now, it will be sort of a "MeeGo without multitouch" upgrade..

We will all be able to flash our N900's with MeeGo, and have full features except Multitouch (i don't really need it.. overhyped...).

Note that i'm no expert at all on this.. infact, i'm giving my first steps on the wonderfull world of Linux (so far) , so please correct me if i'm wrong..

[Mikey Tommo]

cool, the impression i got initially was that they where releasing some libraries or somethin. cool news, obviously wont be fit for daily usage, probably wont have any apps not even stock ones but great thing to try.