Mobile OS: things are starting to get serious with MeeGo

MeeGo is starting to build strong foundations by making the first pieces of their puzzle available to developers, in anticipation of their full version being released in May.

During its official release at the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona, very few details were provided about MeeGo, a new open source platform which should bring together functions provided by Nokia’s Maemo, and Intel developed Moblin.

An initial version was promised for the second quarter of 2010, with this now having been done (almost) with the announcement that the first elements of the MeeGo system have been made available for developers.


No user interface yet
Not everything is quite so advanced though, with the higher level layers of the mobile OS not being ready, meaning the user interface. All lower level components are accessible including the telephony services, social networks and Internet, multimedia services, data management and other sub-systems.

Other elements will be provided in the coming days, with the complete version of MeeGo planned for release in May 2010. Developers will be able to test and comment on this first engine on a wide range of platforms, with MeeGo system images available for Intel Atom netbooks, the Nokia N900 (ARM architecture) and for handsets operating Intel Atom processes using the new Moorestown architecture.