According to news around Internet Intel and Nokia are combining their respective Linux operating environments to power future smartphones and tablets. The Intel-Nokia collaboration began in earnest in June when the two companies announced the beginning of a “long-term relationship,” focusing on developing new chip architectures, software, and a new class of Intel-based mobile computing devices. The goal for MeeGo is to put more flesh on the bones of last year’s announcement. The MeeGo software is expected to be released in the second quarter of this year and products are slated to emerge in the second half.
MeeGo project combine two disparate, unwieldy operating environments under one roof. The combined operating systems are Maemo from Nokia and Moblin from Intel. MeeGo will support both Intel and ARM processors. This means that Intel will be now sponsoring a mobile Linux distro which will have ARM as one of it’s main supported processors. The MeeGo will be hosted by the Linux Foundation as an open source project.
At today’s smartphones the biggest players are Symbian, Apple’s iPhone OS, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, and Google’s Android. The market stress from iPhone OS and Android could have ben part of why Intel and Nokia felt it was necessary to team up. MeeGo is also targeted to devices beyond today’s mobile phones: netbooks, tablets, and televisions.
Both companies stressed that applications that run on Moblin and Maemo will run on top of MeeGo. MeeGo will use Nokia’s Qt application development environment. Using Qt, developers can write once to create applications for a variety of devices and platforms (including Symbian that Nokia also continues to use), and market them through Nokia’s Ovi Store and Intel’s AppUp Center.
MeeGo is supposed to be the result of merging Maemo and Moblin, bringing together the best pieces of those (already quite similar platforms). For example both Maemo and Moblin started off Gtk-based, using the Clutter toolkit on top of Gtk. Now both have switched over to Qt.
The iPad is so expensive so that I hope the Android Tablet is ready in the next month. I hope it will offer the same opportunities like the iPad.
Mobile computing is on the rise these days. Maybe we will get a dual core powered cellphones in the future..”,
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Nokia to use Linux for flagship N-series phones
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65N20Y20100624
Nokia’s next flagship smartphone, the N8, will be the last N-series phone running Symbian software.
“Going forward, N-series devices will be based on MeeGo,” said Nokia spokesman Doug Dawson.
mobile computing nowadays is not yet very powerful compared to netbooks but time will come that it would become like that.-.”
Genivi Alliance (BMW, GM, Mitsubishi, Hyundai and Peugeot) are planning to start using Meego operating system on their In-Vehicle Infotainment systems.
Information source:
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/article478129.ece?s=r&wtm=tietoviikko/-27072010
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mobile computing is the future of personal computers, we want more portable and mobile pc’s*.;
we need some smaller and energy efficient microprocessors to support mobile computing :;”
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop rallies troops in brutally honest ‘burning platform’ memo? (update: it’s real!)
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/08/nokia-ceo-stephen-elop-rallies-troops-in-brutally-honest-burnin/#
Memo mentions MeeGo:
We have some brilliant sources of innovation inside Nokia, but we are not bringing it to market fast enough. We thought MeeGo would be a platform for winning high-end smartphones. However, at this rate, by the end of 2011, we might have only one MeeGo product in the market.
Nokia drops first MeeGo phone before launch
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/09/nokia-meego-idUSLDE7180X420110209
Two industry sources close to the company said that Nokia has ended development of its first smartphone using its new MeeGo operating system.
The question is how many other Meego products do they have under development and what happens to them…
Intel kept in the dark over Nokia’s MeeGo plans; operators reject first device
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/02/12/intel-kept-in-the-dark-over-nokia%E2%80%99s-meego-plans-operators-reject-first-device/
Prior to the public announcement on Friday, Intel was kept in the dark with regards to Nokia’s plans to relegate MeeGo to a glorified R&D project, sources with knowledge of the situation tell TechCrunch Europe.
As a result, the first MeeGo smartphone, thought to be the N9-00, has indeed been canned. Instead, a second (and possibly last) MeeGo smartphone on the roadmap – the N9-01 – sans physical keyboard will be pushed out first, as earlier reported by Engadget.
Intel promises, teases MeeGo smartphone and tablet for MWC
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/13/intel-promises-teases-meego-smartphone-and-tablet-for-mwc/
Intel may have been the jilted bride left at the altar by Nokia, but it’s not giving up on MeeGo just yet. The above poster has been hung up here in Barcelona, in the area us humble journalists still aren’t in allowed yet, and shows a smartphone and tablet running Intel’s Linux variant as their OS.
Intel demos MeeGo ‘tablet user experience’
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/14/meego_tablet_user_experience/
MWC 2011 Intel has released a video demonstrating the MeeGo mobile operating system on a tablet PC, mere days after Nokia pulled the rug out from under their MeeGo partnership with Intel.
MeeGo Netbooks and Tablets: Hands-On
Intel says it doesn’t need Nokia for its platform to succeed. But maybe it does.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2380359,00.asp#
“MeeGo on a netbook is a series of panels with seriously limited functionality: a Firefox Web browser, a media player, email, an IM program, a file browser, and something called MyZone, which is a screen combining social networking updates, calendar items, and tasks. There are very few other, downloadable apps. It really feels like you’ve just taken your powerful netbook and reduced it to the capabilities of a free-with-contract smartphone. The fonts looked big and oddly low-resolution in the browser, and I really couldn’t figure out why anyone would want this when they have a real operating system as an alternative.”
There are rumors that Nokia is releasing Meego Tablet at
http://www.netbooknews.de/46326/nokia-arbeitet-weiterer-meego-plattform-kommt-nokia-tablet/
The page has some interesting pictures of some Meego roadmap slides.
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20110901PD217.html
Intel reportedly plans to back off MeeGo OS
Intel reportedly plans to temporarily discontinue development of its MeeGo OS due to a lack of enthusiasm for the platform from handset and tablet PC vendors. Instead, Intel will focus on hardware products, with its handset platforms to be paired with either Android or Windows Phone in 2012, according to industry sources.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20100779-64/meego-os-fading-fast-intel-says-its-still-committed/?tag=cnetRiver
MeeGo OS fading fast? Intel says it’s ’still committed’
An Asia-based report surfaced today that claims Intel will temporarily halt development of its MeeGo operating system for tablets and smartphones due to lack of interest. Intel, however, says it’s still committed.
The DigiTimes report claimed that Intel plans to “temporarily discontinue development of its MeeGo OS due to a lack of enthusiasm for the platform from handset and tablet PC vendors.”
Instead, Intel will focus on hardware that is paired with either Android or Windows Phone in 2012, according to the report, citing industry sources.
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20100779-64/meego-os-fading-fast-intel-says-its-still-committed/#ixzz1Wn010yiP
Also mentioned at http://www.itviikko.fi/ratkaisut/2011/09/02/hylkaako-myos-intel-meegon/201112351/7?rss=8
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/09/report-intel-meego-no-go/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29
Report: Intel ‘Temporarily’ Halting Meego Development
There may be another victim in the smartphone-strewn battlefield of the mobile OS wars.
Intel’s Meego OS could be dropped from the ranks due to a lack of enthusiasm from smartphone and tablet manufacturers. Industry sources say Intel will instead focus on hardware and turn to Android or Windows Phone 7 as a platform for mobile devices that debut in 2012.
Nokia officially abandoned Meego, and its own Symbian operating system, in favor of Windows Phone 7 in February.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/02/microsoft-and-nokia-team-up-to-build-windows-phones/
http://www.dailytech.com/Report+Intel+Ready+to+Put+Final+Nail+in+Meegos+Coffin/article22640.htm
Unconfirmed report says that Intel feels unable to sustain the platform without Nokia’s commitment
If new reports are to be believed, Intel Corp. (INTC) may be preparing to bury Meego only nineteen months after the smartphone, tablet, and laptop OS project was announced.
For a company used to nothing less than sweeping success, this is likely a very painful and unfamiliar situation. Digitimes is reporting that enough may be enough and that Intel is considering suspending development for the platform, in order to focus on delivering hardware for Android and Windows Phone 7 devices.
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http://www.edn.com/article/519337-Intel_Android_on_x86_phones_TK_in_2012.php
“Meego is still alive and well in embedded and the automotive industry where it’s a major asset for us,” Otellini added.
“We also are working with hardware vendors around the world to optimize [Meego] for tablets and phones,” he said. “There remains a continuing interest among handset makers and carriers to have an additional ecosystem that is open and that is the value proposition for Meego,” he said.
MeeGo will become Tizen, Intel said today. “Intel joined Linux Foundation and LiMo Foundation in support of Tizen, a new Linux-based open source software platform for multiple device categories,” the company said in a statement.
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20112580-64/intel-finds-a-way-to-let-go-of-meego/#ixzz1ZEuiy23z
More information:
https://www.tizen.org/
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/meego+sai+kuoliniskun++tizen+elaa/a693878?s=r&wtm=tietoviikko/-28092011&
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4888/introducing-the-tizen-project
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/27/zombie_linux_merger/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20112580-64/intel-finds-a-way-to-let-go-of-meego/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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