Video: 30 Minutes into MeeGo 1.2 Developer Edition on Nokia N900
Amanda Hoic has a half hour long video to show us MeeGo 1.2 Developer Edition.
This is of course not yet finished and neither is the developer edition for the general consumer. Just perhaps a platform for App development.
http://amanda_hoic.mysinablog.com/
Another point of view about MeeGo 1.2 DE comes from BlueChrism who emailed us this a couple of days ago:
Slides
http://sf2011.meego.com/sites/all/files/slides/n900de_sf2011_20110525_final.pdf
The slides have probably been up a while, i’ve not tried to check, but interesting reading through and looking forward to watching the demos via the live stream. Interesting is the list of things working and not yet working, and I wonder how much of an indication this is of the state of MeeGo Handset project as a whole vs adapting the handset version for N900.What is working right now
● Qt/Qt Quick and MeeGo SDK
● Core use cases, with known issues
● Cellular voice calls
● SMS text messages
● Camera (with autofocus)
● WLAN and Fennec browser
● Handset UX for launching applications & settingsImprovement needed
● Device system performance, optimizations
● Applications (email, multimedia, calendar)
● Localization
● Virtual keyboard (VKB)
● HW keypad layout support
● Browser alternatives
● UI usability (or a new UI)If this is status as a whole, it does begin to make sense on why Nokia dropped Meego a bit, but hopefully we will find out more in the conference itself. The last one on the need for improvement is interesting – the MeeGo team themselves are unhappy with the current MeeGo UI? Maybe those comments are a bit harsh on the MeeGo developers.
Either way, this is probably the best look we will get at where the MeeGo handset’s project is until we start to see devices.
Oh – as far as WP7 goes, you have rightly suggested people not judge too harshly until they try it. As of today (for mucking about with) I have a rooted HTC HD2/Leo with Windows Phone 7 with Nodo on it (haven’t activated it yet, so one last hurdle to get through). I will certainly try it out, and am excited about the some of the Mango updates and the prospect of tight integration with XBox, Netflix and Skype, though I’m not sure yet that i like live tiles – anyway, i’m waffling,point is, i’m giving it a go as a user and an app developer.
He has a blogpost about it here
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One of the things i hate with W7..live tiles..
You’re off topic
LOOOOL +1
So Meego is not close to be finished. I wonder why it takes so long to Nokia developers to finish a product, and the “exhaustive testing” is BS, that’s why S60 5th had that bunch of bugs, and why S^3 1.0 had a lot of bugs (like email and alarm bugs, which should have been detected in a good testing process).
That’s what I like of Nokia’s move to WP7, Microsoft has so much power to develop a platform. WP7 is maturing faster than Android (I’m talking about Android 1.0).
I expect that Intel can lead Meego in a good path, the potential is there, it just needs a good team behind.
MeeGo is never going to be finished the same way Linux is not “finished” or whatever else. It’s under continuing development.
Also it has been known since MeeGo was announced that Nokia’s first phones are not going to be MeeGo but an instance of Meamo/Harmattan, with only parts of MeeGo. It’s true that Nokias MeGo phones have been delayed because software was not ready, but all indicators are telling those phones/phone are now ready enough for release. The same can’t be said about “full” MeeGo though.
Also because MeeGo is a Linux foundation project you can’t “blame” Nokia alone for not finishing it earlier. It’s a joint project with Intel and other engineers from different companies are also working on it. As far as I know Intel is putting even more resources into it than Nokia.
You mention that WP and MS is somehow more advanced than MeeGo and its development is superior speedwise to any other mobile OS. That is load of BS, WP7 works only on Qualcomm chipset, has UI only for phone level hardware and it does not support i86 even in theory. So yes, it’s development is luckily advancing at least on powerpoint slides, but at the same time it’s the only option for them because they really don’t have that many features at the moment.
in other words you says meego sucks at current state…right?
i think it will continue to suck the rate at which it is devleoping.
in other words you says meego sucks at current state…right?
i think it will continue to suck the rate at which it is developing.
PCCW? in HK? neat
Even at its current state, I want it more than WP7.5
Surely you’re kidding. It’s like it was made by amateurs
You are talking about WP7, right? Yes, I agree. WP7 is really amateurish OS.
What does MeeGo have that Symbian doesn’t?
The linux stamp on It. But Symbian is better.
life
a well thought UI,
not only pretty, but functional/practical
i mean, check the browser, the hope screen,
heck even the multitasking,
everything in symbian regarding UI is half baked… and should be revamped !
i cant believe the symbian UI havent changed in the past 10 years, ALMOST exactly the same still
(nokia user for the past 10 years.. and still
)
so basically, even is meego is not upto standard or even worse. hmmm.. no wonder Elop picked windows.
I’m a little shocked to see this from the article above:
“Improvement needed
● Device system performance, optimizations
● Applications (email, multimedia, calendar)
● Localization
● Virtual keyboard (VKB)
● HW keypad layout support
● Browser alternatives
● UI usability (or a new UI)”
Don’t know what is taking so long, but the number of things that are ready is equal to the things NOT ready. Not that I think that Windows can or will provide a better experience, but it’s no wonder why Nokia decided to brush Meego aside. At this rate, when exactly will a Meego device be ready for release? This is a typical Nokia timeline. They can put out amazing products, but not in a timely fashion. When they do, it is not complete and they promise future updates, which in turn take FOREVER. SOMETHING has to change within this Nokia culture. Not sure if the Microsoft alliance was the answer, but going down the path they were before the alliance wasn’t cutting it!
Now i can see why Nokia ditched symbian and go for Windows Phone. Meego’s development is too slow!