Nokia’s treatment of MeeGo smartphone UI revealed?
We've already gotten a glimpse at MeeGo's prerelease stock UI for handsets, but just like Symbian , there's no guarantee that the experience is going to be consistent across manufacturers -- and a new video apparently captured from an online survey makes it seem like Nokia might be looking to go in a slightly different direction. The one minute, twenty-nine seconds of footage walks us through five parts -- starting up, the "powerful multitasking UI," getting connected, the Ovi Store experience, and the music player -- and as you might imagine, it's the Ovi Store portion that has us feeling like this is a thoroughly Nokia-customized experience (not to mention the copyright in the lower left). It generally looks richer and more functional than what we've seen before, and parts -- like the webOS -esque multitasking -- remind us of Maemo 5's thumbnails, which makes perfect sense considering MeeGo's roots.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: copyright, entry, experience, intel, meego, music, stock, store
Intel snaps up former Palm and Apple VP Mike Bell for its smartphone push
Seriously, what the hell did HP acquire when it bought Palm ? A bunch of pretty patents and a rapidly dwindling talent pool, it would seem. Mike Bell, a celebrated capture for Palm back in 2007 after 16 years at Apple, was most recently occupying the role of Senior VP for Product Development on Jon Rubinstein's team, but he has now switched allegiances to the blue team .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: address, apple, entry, group, intel, palm exodus, pool, ultra mobility group
Meego handset UI guidelines offer details aplenty, suggestion of WebOS, Android influences
Sure, you can already download MeeGo 1.0 and try it out on your netbook or N900 , but Nokia also has some grander designs for the mobile operating system, and a new Handset Interaction Guidelines document published on (and then pulled from) the official MeeGo wiki has now offered some more details on exactly what's in store. Among the highlights are confirmation of support for both portrait and landscape keyboards, and some pretty strong evidence of WebOS and Android influences, including a task manager that's similar to WebOS's card system but becomes a grid view with a multitouch pinch, and a notification system and taskbar that are apparently similar to Android's -- not to mention some centralized account management. There's pages and pages of details beyond that, however, so hit up the link below to dive in (courtesy of Google Cache, of course).
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: account, both-portrait, details-aplenty, grid, highlights, intel, interaction, keyboards, meego, mobile, nokia, taskbar, the-highlights, webos
Telefonica gets behind MeeGo, says ’smartphones, netbooks, tablets, and internet connected TVs’ are possibilities
Virtually all of the MeeGo buzz since Intel and Nokia's tie-up back in February has been focused on high-end smartphones, tablets, and netbooks, but Telefonica reminds us that there's another potential target for the platform, too -- connected TVs.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: buzz, cable, entry, fixed-internet, intel, meego, POTENTIAL, spain
Nokia will kick off MeeGo effort with ARM-based silicon, not x86
We've heard a similar message from Nokia dating all the way back to MeeGo's introduction at MWC back in February, so it comes as little surprise that Espoo is apparently trumpeting the virtues of ARM for its first MeeGo-powered device that's still targeted for the tail end of 2010. What might make this particularly interesting is the fact that MeeGo 1.0 is clearly further along for Atom devices than it is for the Cortex A8-based N900 , not to mention that Nokia has already warmed up to Intel thanks to its Booklet 3G -- but regardless of the silicon, getting the platform solid enough for any sort of retail device by the end of 2010 still seems like a tricky proposition when you figure that the ARM build doesn't even have a proper user interface yet. Ultimately, it might come down to a question of size; Intel still hasn't proven that it can scale Atom down far enough to tackle the smartphone market head-on, so if Nokia wants to go small with its first MeeGo hardware, that alone could be impetus enough to go ARM.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: arm, comes-as-little, entry, impetus-enough, intel, meego, nokia, proposition, result
MeeGo 1.0 for netbooks and N900 now available to download
You've seen it teased , and now it's time to shelve whatever you had planned for this evening (or morning, depending on your current coordinates) and slap the first bona fide 1.x MeeGo release onto whatever device you've got handy.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: evening, glance, intel, maemo, meego, mobileos, n900, netbooks, nokia, nokian900, result, sdk, shelve-whatever, whatever-device
Nokia updates N900 to version 1.2 in UK, closes door on MeeGo
You've overclocked it and hacked it to run OS X and Android , now you can return your N900 to its native Maemo 5 OS with the launch of a version 1.2 software update. The V10.2010.19-1 bump now available in the UK (global on Wednesday) packs several enhancements including face-to-face video calling, improved Ovi Maps, and a better email experience with bundled Facebook IM Chat and the ability to accept or decline event invitations from the inbox. You'll also see a number of new games when the Ovi Store switches over on Thursday
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: 1.2, base, fan, intel, launch, maemo, maps, nokia, ovi store, softwareupdate
Nokia partners with Harman to ’standardize’ cellular infotainment
Though Microsoft , RIM and possibly Google are already vying to be the center of the automotive infotainment push, a certain Finnish phone manufacturer says it wants to take charge. Nokia just tapped infotainment provider Harman to "standardize" the interface between phone and car.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: bluetooth, cars, doubt, engadget, entry, Harman, intel, ovi maps, Sheets
Cellbots get Nexus One upgrade, ad-hoc motion control (video)
Sprint and Verizon may have shunned the Nexus One , but that doesn't mean the handsets can't be put to good use: these Android-controlled, Arduino-powered Cellbots now feature the one true Googlephone as the CPU. At Intel's 2010 International Engineering and Science Fair in San Jose, we got our hot little hands on the DIY truckbots for the first time, and found to our surprise they'd been imbued with accelerometer-based motion control
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: after-the-break, arduino-rigged, google-nexus-one, intel, mod, motion controls, nexusone, told-the-first
Clearwire sticking with WiMAX until at least 2012
Clearwire always seems to have commitment issue. Despite going steady with WiMAX , the company keeps saying that they might eventually part ways for different pastures -- namely LTE , should WiMAX turn out to be a dead end (talk about relationship pressure). That's still ongoing, as CEO Bill Morrow recently explained to CNET that its contract with Intel has been amended so that "either party can terminate the technology agreement within 30 days" but later adding that it definitely wouldn't hop on the LTE bandwagon before 2012
Categories: Mobile Phone, htc Tags: agreement, billmorrow, clear wire, entry, intel, lte, party, question-later, Relationship, strikes-down, technology, the-technology