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Nokia confirms Nseries MeeGo move

, Jun 24th 2010 Discuss [1]

Nokia has officially confirmed that it is, indeed, switching its high-end Nseries devices to the MeeGo operating system once the Nokia N8 is out of the way.  Reported yesterday by way of an aside from a Nokia Australia rep - and prompting doubt from many Nokia watchers - spokesperson Doug Dawson from the Finnish company told Reuters today that "Going forward, N-series devices will be based on MeeGo." Read The Full Story

Nokia Nseries to make MeeGo switch post N8?

, Jun 23rd 2010 Discuss [2]

Nokia has apparently confirmed that the N8 will be the last NSeries device from the Finnish company to run Symbian, with all future NSeries handsets switching to the MeeGo platform they're working on in collaboration with Intel.  The news comes from Nokia Australia, who told CNet Australia that Symbian^3 and its successor, Symbian^4, will be used primarily on the XSeries and ESeries of handsets. Read The Full Story

Nokia tablet in testing ahead of Q4 2010 launch?

, Jun 21st 2010 Discuss [0]

Nokia's tablet ambitions have once again reared their head, with a little more grist for the rumor mill.  According to DigiTimes' sources at component manufacturers, Nokia has apparently produced "about 100 engineering samples" of a tablet device which it will be using for testing; the tablet has a 7- or 9-inch touchscreen, they believe, and is manufactured by Foxconn.  The rumors follow earlier talk of a "large screen" device with OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics for gaming. Read The Full Story

MeeGo Tablet UI gets video walkthrough

, Jun 21st 2010 Discuss [0]

MeeGo-based tablets were a small but significant cohort at Computex recently, but while we've seen brief demos of the hardware we're yet to see a full walkthrough of the tablet-centric build of the OS.  Over at YouTube there's a new video demo of a MeeGo pre-alpha, showing how the platform handles a reasonably-sized, multitouch capable touchscreen display, and the good news is that even at this early stage it looks pretty impressive. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

MeeGo Smartphone UI guidelines detailed

, Jun 18th 2010 Discuss [4]

We've already seen Nokia and Intel's plans for the MeeGo UI for netbooks, but so far the smartphone UI has been something of a mystery.  Now, thanks to a prematurely posted - and since yanked - document titled "MeeGo Handset Interaction Guidelines" (which is still available to view through Google's cache), we know that the MeeGo team have been studying Android and webOS for some of their inspiration. Read The Full Story

Nokia N9 and mysterious S-series outed in roadmap leak

, Jun 9th 2010 Discuss [1]

Nokia's plans for their handset future have leaked, courtesy of a house-shaped diagram that showed up in the mobile-review forums.  The document, which appears to be part of an internal presentation, details everything from the basic entry-level Cseries and Eseries models, through midrange Cseries, Eseries and Xseries phones, up to the flagship N8 and hitherto-unconfirmed Nokia N9, with an Sseries "chimney" too. Read The Full Story

MeeGo gets serious: Wistron, Quanta & CZC tablets spied [Video]

, Jun 1st 2010 Discuss [0]

Intel are going full steam ahead with MeeGo at Computex this week, with multiple name-checks for the open-source OS during the keynote and several manufacturers implicated in pushing out MeeGo-based devices.  In among the Oak Trail/Canoe Lake information was confirmation that Acer will be developing MeeGo tablets and netbooks, while there are brief details on Quanta's Redvale MeeGo tablet, together with the Wistron W1 and CZC P10T tablets spotted by Carrypad on show at the Intel booth. Demo video after the cut Read The Full Story

Nokia to use ARM chip in first MeeGo device

, May 31st 2010 Discuss [4]

We have already talked about Nokia's MeeGo OS on a few occasions. Last week we learned that MeeGo v1.0 for netbooks and the Nokia N900 smartphone had launched. Nokia is expecting MeeGo to be adopted by other manufactures wince the OS is offered as an open source option for devices. Read The Full Story

MeeGo v1.0 for netbooks and N900 launches, gets video demo

, May 27th 2010 Discuss [0]

MeeGo v1.0 for netbooks and the Nokia N900 has now been released, complete with Qt 4.6 support, the MeeGo SDK with an integrated application development environment, and various other OS tools.  The MeeGo experience is centered around the Myzone, with various social networking, email, calendar and contacts widgets; these aggregate content from multiple networks, together with synchronized calendar, tasks, appointments and recently used files. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Nokia N900 gets Maemo 1.2 update; official MeeGo a no-go

, May 25th 2010 Discuss [1]

Nokia's N900 has just been gifted a software update, though it's not the MeeGo v1.0 firmware we're waiting for (more bad news about that after the cut).  Maemo 5 version 1.2 (v10.2010.19-1) is out in the UK today and will go global by the end of the week; it boosts email support, adds Facebook IM chat, video calling and portrait-orientation browsing, together with tweaking Nokia Ovi Maps. Read The Full Story

Intel bringing tablet & ultra-thin netbooks to Computex

, May 12th 2010 Discuss [0]

Intel has promised to deliver its alternative to the iPad and other ARM-based tablets at Computex 2010, with Mooly Eden - vice president of the company's PC Client Group - taking to the stage at the Intel Investor Meeting to show off a new ultra-thin dual-core netbook reference design together with a tablet.  According to Eden, Intel "are going to design silicon" for the tablet segment and will "actively participate" in the market. Read The Full Story

Dell Athens & Sparta netbooks tipped, plus Looking Glass Pro HD tablet

, Apr 26th 2010 Discuss [1]

Dell have been piloting a pretty leaky ship recently, with smartphones and tablets spilling out all over the place, and next up are the company's MID, netbook and tablet intentions.  AndroidCentral have acquired an image showing that Dell plan a convertible netbook/tablet, the "Sparta" in Q3 2011, which will have a nifty rotating touchscreen that pivots within its bezel, and a "true" netbook, the "Athens", later that quarter.  Going by the logos, they'll be available either with Android or Moblin (though we're guessing the latter was used prior to the Nokia/Intel MeeGo announcement). Read The Full Story
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