MeeGo

Less than a week ago we informed about the availability of MeeGo 1.2 RC1 and here comes the version RC2 bringing us even closer to the final MeeGo 1.2 release scheduled for the end of April.

As reported yesterday by Jukka Eklund (Product Manager at Nokia) on MeeGo Development list, the Nokia N900 will get own version of MeeGo - the N900 MeeGo Developer Edition. A dedicated team will be formed for this project, together with the current N900 Hardware Adaptation Team.

The Nokia N900 users have for long for the requested for a software upgrade, mostly to improve the GPS experience to a standard similar to the one on S60 5th edition smartphones.

According to the post on Nokia Conversations, although Nokia N900 devices are being used for platform development and testing for MeeGo project, there are no plans for a full scale commercial MeeGo upgrade on the Nokia N900. I think that’s a good approach, in order to keep User Experience focused on one platform that’s tailor made for a device.

As the Nokia N900 and Maemo 5 project advances, users don’t sleep. Sometimes we should have a closer look on what more advanced users are working on, recently I ran into few interesting articles about customization and MeeGo running on N900.

It seems that the installation of MeeGo on Nokia N900 as a second operating system begins to ease. Now available in Extras-Devel repository u-boot package, compatible with the firmware PR1.3.

The first official version of MeeGo for mobile is about to leave, probably later this month, but already we can see a preview of what will be MeeGo, in this case on the Nokia N900 and the build 1.1.80.0.20101001.1.