Nokia N900 to get official port of MeeGo as N900 developer edition
It was pretty unclear what would be the future of N900 and MeeGo. Up to now it was getting MeeGo through N900 Hardware Adaption team.
Now, the Nokia N900 will get some of the support it deserves from Nokia by getting an Official Port of MeeGo as the Developer Edition.
Target is to make a Developer Edition of MeeGo for the Nokia N900 device. Flashed with this edition N900 will be usable as a primary phone device for a developer/hacker person. The focus is on meeting the non-functional targets (such as performance) rather than number of features. This will hopefully encourage more people to use MeeGo on N900, and continue enhancing the functionality or build new stuff.
Developer Edition is built from MeeGo 1.2 trunk content.
Cheers for the tip, aris! In the linked blogpost at MyN900Diary, there’s also a letter from Jukka Eklund, Product Manager for the Developer Edition:
Hi there,
I am thrilled to announce a little thing we started at Nokia. Basically we want to have MeeGo running in N900 device, so that it’s really usable as your daily development device. Basic Handset UX should work, phone calls, SMS, web browsing. So we are concentrating on a few selected features and polish those to be “perfect”. It might mean that we leave out some things in MeeGo 1.2 trunk for this edition, but that is not the default intention.
We are doing this fully on the open, and I hope this is an interesting project where we all in the community work towards the same goal: have a great MeeGo edition in the N900. This work is naturally based on the great work done already by N900 adaptation team lead by Harri and Carsten.
The wiki is up here: http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900/DeveloperEdition. It will populated with more information as we go, thanks for the patience.
Br,
Jukka Developer Edition product manager
twitter.com/jukkaeklund
IRC: jukkahttp://www.linkedin.com/in/jukkaeklund
So, they’re at polishing stage. I don’t know whether to be happy or to be concerned. Concerned for MeeGo’s readiness. But great news for N900. I do hope N950 isn’t just a N900 with official MeeGo.
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The “N950″ will be what is left of Maemo6 core with MeeGo API:s. It will e.g. use .deb packaging and not .rpm (although Nokia claims it’s not a huge issue).
This N900 developer edition will be based on the MeeGo 1.2 core.
Maybe, _maybe_ (i.e. in an alternate universe), the “N950″ will also at some point get a proper MeeGo core..
Nokia engineers said it’ll be possible.
nice! interesting news! i will sure try meego on my N900 when they get it official
Sooo…
Now that Nokia has managed to piss off and destroy their community developer base and at the same time infuriate their own staff to the point they need to offer cash for them to stay the “great minds” decide to come up with this?
Sorry Nokia, too late for this… No one cares anymore.
Good point, how come all this greatness is coming out now (Qt etc.) and during the past 6 months we heard next to nothing about it?
Nokia is on a roller coaster ride.
If no one cared there would have been no comments here.
Commenting is different than having a N900 to install another half baked OS.
By the time that this developer edition comes out, most probably, those N900 owners moved to Android or something else.
Commenting is caring.
Sounds stupid to move from a half baked operating system to another half baked OS.
I’ll definately be looking at getting MeeGo on My N900. I was always going to because someone would have made it availiable, official or not, but now there will be an offical versions so that’s great.
I’m sure it will still end up being the job of the Maemo/Meego communities to keep N900 Meego release up to date though.
I am just loving this bit of news!
I care.
Good news, at least the staff care.. even if its not elop
If only they cared a little more a while back and pushed for this to be released as a 2010 event. That could have been something awesome.
As a N900 owner I’m pleased to hear this. I know Nokia may have piss alot of hardcore fans with their announcement about the windows stuff but the decision is wise for the company. I’m so glad they didn’t choose Android because it’s so boring and to be honest it’s just as bad as they say symbian is but of course we’ll never hear that from the editors here in the states. Just took the Galaxy S II back to Tmobile for I didn’t see anything better then the first version except the camera but if I wanted a camera phone I would have got the N8.
It’s a bit too late now don’t you think? No one cares about maemo/MeeGo/N900, its dead technology now. we waited so long for updates and meego that we end up selling it for iPhone and Android devices.
its a shame cause the n900 was such a joy to have when it was released
Ask Intel if MeeGo is dead.
“no one cares about maemo/meego/N900,”
I just saw a post at maemo forums of a guy inquiring for an N900.
That makes us two. #hopingnottobreaktheusbport
apple will be the largest phone maker if they make iphone mini
true. if today apple starts selling a 300, 350$ iphone (mini,nano whatever) they will be the no. 1 smartphone manufacturer in an year. why would anyone buy an N8 when they can get way better software, apps, games and customer support.
doesnt matter what the fanboys think. ground reality is every average consumer who has heard of iphone wants it. geeks dont matter. its the average customer who matters.
“customer support” you are kidding to me. I can not think of anyone better than Nokia for support.
Don’t make me laugh. Nokia is the worst for customer support. I remember when I pre ordered the N900 and they kept delaying the release date and when I called Nokia and visit the store they gave me a horrible service
Do not think that those who have iPhone1, iPhone2 and iPod Touch find it so ridiculous that they do not get iOS 4.3.
Nokia 5800 will still get updates.
nicce info… just dont HOAX..! :d
GUYS ONE MORE THING TO CHEERS IS THAT “MEEGO IS THE TOP PRIORITY IN NOKIA PLAN C”
MEEGO IS NOT DEAD IT IS RESERVED FOR FUTURE EXPANSION BECOZ OF “ENDLESS OPPORTUNITY IN MEEGO”
GUYS ONE MORE THING TO CHEERS IS THAT “MEEGO IS THE TOP PRIORITY IN NOKIA PLAN C”
MEEGO IS NOT DEAD IT IS RESERVED FOR FUTURE EXPANSION BECOZ OF “ENDLESS OPPORTUNITY IN MEEGO”
MEEGO IS EXTENSIVELY IN NOKIA PLAN C-
http://businessweek.com/technology/ content/mar2011/ tc2011032_306919.htm? campaign_id=rss_topStories
Thats just a opinion of a journalist. However I would like it to be true.
MEEGO IS EXTENSIVELY IN NOKIA PLAN C- http://businessweek.com/technology/ content/mar2011/ tc2011032_306919.htm? campaign_id=rss_topStories
Nokia deep investment in Meego
http://businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2011/tc2011032_306919.htm?campaign_id=rss_topStories
Well thats nice
not gonna sell my n900 for a while then.
Developer Edition eh? What wil happen to “Consumer Edition MeeGo”?
Will I be able to use my Nokia N900 when it’ll be still in MAEMO 5 or do I have to study a little bit of development to properly use the MeeGo Nokia N900?
Chris, vendors will do the “consumer editions” of MeeGo for MeeGo products. Nokia N900 is not a MeeGo product and will not be, but we thought that why not utilize that existing great HW to ease development for MeeGo. To try it out you don’t any special developer skills, but then again if you are not a developer/hacker person probably this is not for you.
BTW, thanks all for comments, looks like this is considered interesting
MeeGo or not, I will love my Nokia N900 MEAMO 5. I will reflash my N900 anyway so I will try out the MeeGo a few months after some of our friendly hackers finish finalizing the N900. Hopefully there’s OVI.
The N900 is actually a development phone but I bought it to test linux. I sure hope I will get the same experience in MeeGo N900. All I care is I can call, text, surf the web and use the camera. It seems this is what I will get in MeeGo at launch. I will try out a few games and that’s it. I start to hack the N900 MeeGo.
Anyway, Hope to see the success of MeeGo. Thanks for the heads up
Ok. so is there any specific date when this meego 1.2 release is downloadable?
VERY EXITED TO HEAR WONDERFUL NEWS AND I JUST HOPE THIS MEAN MORE SUPPORT ACCROSS THE BOARD OVI STOPRE MAEMO-MEEGO.
I DO BELEIVE THEY ARE SOME OF THE BEST WHEN IT COMES TO CUSTOMER SERVICE REALLY I AM SO CONTENT NOW THAT I MOVED AWAY FROM THE EVIL EMPIRE- APPLE-.
THIS TABLE NOT PHONE DOES MORE THAN IPHONE CAN ON JAILBREAK JUST NEED MORE DEVELOPERS AND HACKER SUPPORTING THE PROGRAMMING AND DEV OF THIS DEVICE.
A CYDIA VERSION FOR N900 WOULD BE THE FOOT IN APPLES ASS, I KNOW IT CAN BE DONE.
HOPE THAT NOKIA IS LISTENING.