Nokia CTO Rich Green has seemingly named the company first MeeGo device, the Nokia N950, set to launch later in 2011. Speaking at Nokia Developer Day keynote last week, I caught Green on camera suggesting that coders "should look at this as the successor to the N900, the N950." The name differs from Nokia current nomenclature scheme, but follows directly from the Maemo-basedN900 launched back in 2009.
No images of the device were shown, and Green did not go into detail describing the design or functionality of the device. "There is a lot of work thats gone into the technology" he suggested, "thereis a lot of really interesting user interface and platform design work, some very elegant hardware."
That hardware could well be a touch-only candybar design, with Nokia reportedly axing the N9-00 QWERTY slider seen in previous leaks and previews after concerns over the physical durability of the hinge mechanism. Last month, the MeeGo team took its UI development covert as it finalized the latest update ahead of being considered feature complete.
Green suggested that the N950 should be considered a development platform rather than, we are assuming, a mainstream, user-ready smartphone for code work on MeeGo, which Nokia has reclassified as a test bed for future disruption in mobile ecosystems.
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Intel known for making the processors that made laptops a mainstream item. Several years ago they tried to make the cost of laptops even more affordable by introducing Atom. While its debatable how successful the netbook category is, you cannot argue with the fact that one can now buy a portable personal computer for less than 500 Euros. Thank Intel for that. The head of Intel Ultra Mobility Group, Anand Chandrasekher, has been with the chip firm for 24 years andthis week we find out that he is leaving the firm. It is not that his work has been bad, just look at the latest generation of MacBook Pro laptops from Apple or the new solid state drives that make everything your operating system tries to do happen in the blink of an eye. No, his failure is bringing x86 processors to the fastest growing consumer device segment: smartphones.
His post will be filled by Mike Bell and Dave Whalen. The fact that it takes two people to fill his shoes says a lot. But lets step back to August 2010 when Intel announced they were intent on purchasing Infineon wireless unit. For a company that invented WiFi and tried, hopelessly, to get WiMAX off the ground, why was Intel purchasing the guys who make the baseband that goes inside the Apple iPhone? Short answer is they know they need to make something, anything, that can fit inside a smartphone. Long answer is that the new competition from ARM vendors such as Texas Instruments and Qualcomm offer a more attractive product. As a device maker, why would not you be interested in buying a platform from a company that provides WiFi, GPS, a GPU, CPU, cellular connectivity, and soon even NFC? Intel model of selling chipsets and chips is grossly in need of an overhaul, and Anand failed to make that transition happen.
The N900 is the Latest Geeks Flag-ship device from Nokia, the Device Started with Maemo 5 and released to the markets on Early 2010, then the Device Got the MeeGo 1.1 Update on October,2010. It looks like Nokia also want to get the MeeGo 1.2 on this Device but this time it will be a Full integrated Update with Many New Features and Improvements from the Previous Update.
It look like Nokia want to make the MeeGo OS the Main Operating System for The N900 as Jukka Eklund, MeeGo developer edition product manager, said about the Nokia N900:
"... its really usable as your daily development device"
And about the MeeGo 1.2 Update for the N900 he also comment:
"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 in 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"
But what about the Update Release Date ?...
Well we have found a Document on MeeGo WiKi shows the release Stages of the MeeGo 1.2 OS for Core Netbooks, Handsets, Car Systems, tablets..etc, the Document shows that the General availability will on 27, April and same as the last time the N900 will get the MeeGo 1.2.0.0 Update on 28, April 2011 (Check Document Below)
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| 1.1.99.2 | 2011-04-07 -- 2011-04-13 | MeeGo 1.2 Release candidate 3 (to be published on 2011-04-13) | Details | |
| 1.1.99.3 | 2011-04-14 -- 2011-04-20 | MeeGo 1.2 Release candidate 4 (to be published on 2011-04-20) | Details | |
| 1.2.0.0 | 2011-04-21 -- 2011-04-27 | MM5: MeeGo 1.2 Release for Core, Netbooks, Handsets, ... (General availability, release to web on 2011-04-27) | Details |
Nokia and Intel Teams promises big improvements on the MeeGo operating system itself Performance, Reliability and User Interface too on the upcoming Version of MeeGo (MeeGo 1.2.0.0). Here is some Screenshots leaked from Prototype devices running earlier versions of the new MeeGo (e.g. v1.1.90)
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Despite the shift towards Windows Phone 7, Nokia will still ship a MeeGo device this year. Its going to be the successor to the Nokia N900 and will be called the N950. We do not have a photo of the device yet, but Nokia gave reassurances that they are committed to MeeGo, Symbian, Qt and S40 too.
At Nokia Developer Day, Nokia CTO Rich Green gave an extensive talk about the future of current Nokia platforms, MeeGo included. He said that they are working hard on the N950 and have come up with some "very elegant" hardware and interesting UI. I believe the Device will be Announced with the MeeGo 1.2 on April and Ofcourse the Intel Midfield will be on board of its Hardware too.
Thats all we have on the Nokia N950 the Nokia N9 (which was rumored as the coming MeeGo device) might have been canceled and Nokia showed absolutely no new devices at the MWC.
Green assured the attending developers that the Nokia N950 is well-stocked as a developer platform and says "we'll see how that goes". It sounds like the N950 is aimed more towards devs than the mass market user. Nokia strategy still relies on Qt development for both Symbian and MeeGo and pushing forward with Java on Series 40, so work on those platforms continues. S40 will be getting a new Ovi Browser that aims to bring mobile Internet connectivity to hundreds of millions of people.
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Intel has stepped up and said that despite Nokia recent announcement to partner with Microsoft and Windows Phone 7, Intel will continue to aggressively develop the open source MeeGo OS with other partners. To that effect, they have released a set of MeeGo Tablet user development tools. But the exciting news here for us consumers is that they have plans to release tablets running MeeGo by the end of the year. We got a hands-on with some of the alpha MeeGo tablets that are running a new MeeGo tablet user experience.
What we especially like about the MeeGo tablet UI is that it is designed to bring up quick contextual menus for whatever you are doing at the moment, so that you dont have to constantly jump back to the main menu of applications to do something new.
Intel MeeGo Tablet Specs Not Officially release yet, but Stay tuned!
Hands-on Video Below!
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