As expected Meego.com released the MeeGo v1.1 Handset Developer Preview. The Nokia N900 is not supported in this release. As we can see Nokia N900 in supported Hardware page we are expecting its release soon. But N900 developers if you are interested you can start to build an N900 image Download the N900 file.
Read after the break for detailed info.
From Meego Blog:
The MeeGo project is happy to announce “Day 1″ of the MeeGo Handset user experience project. Many of you will remember this “Day 1″ concept from March, when we first made the MeeGo core OS source code available and started development towards the MeeGo 1.0 release. Today, the handset baseline source code is available to the development community. This code is being actively developed as MeeGo 1.1, which is scheduled for release in October. The team has been preparing MeeGo Gitorious with all the sources and infrastructure to perform the weekly builds for MeeGo 1.1 development. The MeeGo UI team has also been busy creating the handset reference user experience and preparing the MeeGo UI design principles and interaction guidelines. This milestone marks the completion of the merger of Moblin and Maemo as major architecture decisions and technical selections have been determined. Today, we are also opening the MeeGo Build Infrastructure.
The MeeGo Project Handset Day 1 includes:
- MeeGo APIs, incorporating Qt and MeeGo Touch UI Framework (MTF)
- Subset of the handset reference UI and applications
- Status Bar: clock, network, Bluetooth, 3G connection, notifications, and battery charge
- Home Screen
- Lock Screen
- Application Launcher
- Virtual Keyboard
- Applications: Dialer, SMS, Browser, Contacts, and Photo Viewer
- MeeGo Core OS (including the middleware components)
- Hardware adaptation support for Intel Atom-based handset (Moorestown) and ARM-based Nokia N900
See it for yourself–check out the cool UI Handset Day 1 screenshots. Or better yet, try it out on a device for yourself by downloading a developer preview image or browse the source code. The MeeGo Handset Day 1 image is provided as a community developer preview and we are in a very early and active development state. While we don’t recommend installing it on your primary phone just yet, we invite all developers who are interested to have an early look using a development device.
More details are in the Handset Day 1 release notes.
Valtteri Halla & Imad Sousou
MeeGo Technical Steering Group
The current release dont support Nokia N900. It supports only
- Aava Mobile Intel Moorestown platform EV2
- Aava Mobile Intel Moorestown platform DV1
But the Developers who wish to build an N900 image Download the N900 file and start building.
The current release have some basic applications such as
- MeeGo Handset Dialer
- MeeGo Handset SMS
- Fennec Browser is MeeGo’s Qt based web browser
- MeeGo Handset Photos
- MeeGo Handset People content management system
Meego Handset Developer Preview Screenshots:
More about the Release
Download Images
- Download the Aava Mobile Intel Moorestown platform image (MD5 Sum)
- Follow the instructions on installing the image.
The MeeGo [v1.1] Handset User Experience includes:
- MeeGo Handset Dialer is MeeGo’s Handset dialer application
- MeeGo Handset SMS is MeeGo’s Handset SMS application
- Fennec Browser is MeeGo’s Qt based web browser for Handsets
- MeeGo Handset Photos is MeeGo’s Handset photo viewer
- MeeGo Handset People is MeeGo’s Handset contacts management system
The MeeGo [v1.1] Core Software Platform Features include:
- Kernel Version 2.6.35.
- MeeGo Touch Framework is MeeGo’s framework to assist in rapid touch based application development.
- QtContactsTracker is MeeGo’s back-end contracts storage management engine.
- Virtual Keyboard is MeeGo’s virtual touch based handset keyboard.
Supported Hardware
Known Issues and Workarounds
- X crash with lock screen
Description: Double tapping the lock button crashes X. Not always reproducible. Lock button is located under Home -> Apps -> second screen (slide to left) -> fourth icon.
Workaround: Please do not double-tap the lock button.
Bug 3375 – Unlock screen crashes X by tapping lock icon- White screen
Description: Tapping and dragging the top tool bar show white screen.
Workaround: On white screen, tap where the home button should be, and the UI reappears.
Bug 3289 – [REG] White screen shows instead of drop down menu after tapping the system UI- Home screen button only works once per application
Description: Home screen button works only once, clicking it second time has no response.
Workaround: Do not tap home screen button two times, or do not use it at all. Application switcher is still very buggy.
Bug 2600 – [REG] No response when clicking application home button the second time- Failure to connect to WiFi network crashes the settings application
Description: If establishing a connection to WiFi network fails, the settings application will crash.
Workaround: Re-launch the settings application from Home -> Settings (Second icon on bottom tool bar).
Bug 811 – Click Failure network in WIFI network list can crash Settings- Cannot return to ‘People’ application once other application is launched from it
Description: When an application is launched from the ‘People’ application, for example, from the SMS application launched by tapping on ‘SMS’ against a mobile phone number, there is no way to return to ‘People’ application.
Workaround: Close the newly launched application to return to the ‘People’ application.
Bug 3170 – People: No way to return to People from SMS/Dialer/Email- Scrolling (sliding) picture list to left/right shows two partial pictures
Description: In the ‘Pictures’ application, when sliding a picture to left/right, to see next/previous picture, it shows two partial pictures.
Workaround: Continue sliding in the same direction to view next/previous picture.
Bug 3532 – [REG] Two incomplete photos showed simultaneously in the screen, when screen scrolled towards left/right side in photo view- Clicking ‘All’ button pops contextual menu in ‘Pictures’
Description: A contextual menu pops up when ‘All’ button is clicked, to view all photos while browsing photos in the ‘Pictures’ application.
Workaround: Click outside the pop-up menu to make the pop-up go away.
Bug 3481 – [Photo viewer] The contextual menu will be popped when click the “All” button in the title bar- Text corruption with on-screen keyboard
Description: Tapping on the ‘Sym’ button three times garbles the button text on the on-screen keyboard.
Workaround: No known workaround. The keyboard is still functional, but it’s difficult to type when you can’t see the button text.
Bug 2645 – Corruption of text of VKB in input field- QT Fennec scrolling and orientation switching
Description: Switching orientation from landscape to portrait causes an issue where portions of the page extends off the right side of the screen. As a result the portion of the page and the control strip on the right side become not visible.
Workaround: No known workaround.
Bug 3452 – QT Fennec doesn’t recalculate scrolling size after orientation switching