A proper MeeGo device is still nowhere in sight, but the Aava phone is the next best thing, it's a developer platform, meaning intended mostly for MeeGo developers rather than customers, but it gives us a look at how the MeeGo OS and MeeGo-powered devices might look.
There’s a lengthy video review along with an extensive photo shoot of the Aava phone running MeeGo 1.1. A lot of the things aren’t working yet, but there’s still quite some time before the market launch…
Like I said, this Aava phone is not meant for consumers and it shows – many things (volume keys included) still aren’t working. The software needs plenty of work too – but the things that work look rather impressive.
The Aava phone is powered by the Moorestown platform with a 1.5GHz Intel Atom based processor – so, in terms of computational power it’s about equal to a netbook. The Firefox Mobile browser (ex Fennec) goes through the SunSpider JavaScript test in about 4.2 seconds, while a netbook running Chrome manages it in about 2 seconds (of course, Chrome is much faster than desktop Firefox, so it’s not really a fair comparison).
