Nokia N900 to get Official MeeGo Port

What is happening in the world of Nokia these days? Last year, MeeGo was their dedicated high-end smartphone OS with Symbian covering low-to-mid end devices, then Windows Phone 7 took over and MeeGo was meant to be hung out to dry. Now, the Maemo-sporting Nokia N900 (released two years ago with one of the best mobile browsers of all time), will get an official port of MeeGo by Nokia.

Jukka Elund, Product Manager at Nokia, just announced that Nokia will be directing efforts to release MeeGo on the N900 as Developers Edition; although targeted towards developers, anyone can use it.

Here’s a copy of his statement:

Hi there,

I am thrilled to announce a little thing we started at Nokia. Basically we want to have MeeGo running in N900 device, so that it’s really usable as your daily development device. 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 on 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. This work is naturally based on the great work done already by N900 adaptation team lead by Harri and Carsten.

The wiki is up here:·http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900/DeveloperEdition. It will populated with more information as we go, thanks for the patience.

Jukka Developer Edition product manager

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Source: MyN900Diary via NokiaUsers / MyNokiaBlog

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