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47-562: The S60 Platform , originally named Series 60 User Interface , is a discontinued software platform and graphical user interface for smartphones that runs on top of the Symbian operating system. It was created by Nokia based on the 'Pearl' interface from Symbian Ltd. S60 was introduced at COMDEX in November 2001 and first shipped with the Nokia 7650 smartphone; the original version

94-505: A web browser . As long as it is a required component for the program code to execute, it is part of the computing platform. Platforms may also include: Some architectures have multiple layers, with each layer acting as a platform for the one above it. In general, a component only has to be adapted to the layer immediately beneath it. For instance, a Java program has to be written to use the Java virtual machine (JVM) and associated libraries as

141-529: A MeeGo instance (though not a MeeGo product), and Nokia is giving up the Maemo branding for Harmattan on the Nokia N9 and beyond. (Any previous Maemo versions up to Maemo 5, a.k.a. Fremantle, will still be referred to as Maemo.) In addition it was made clear that only the naming was given up whilst development on Harmattan would continue so that any schedules would have been met. Aminocom and Novell also played

188-739: A Tablet UX part of the MeeGo project, but it is not known if this UX will be the one demonstrated by Intel. This Tablet UX will be fully free like the rest of the MeeGo project and will be coded with Qt and the MeeGo Touch Framework. Intel has revealed interest in combining Qt with Wayland instead of X11 in MeeGo Touch to use the latest graphics technologies supported by Linux kernel , which should improve user experiences and reduce system complexity. Minimum hardware requirements are currently unknown. The WeTab runs MeeGo T01 with

235-465: A broad third party application ecosystem. According to Intel, MeeGo was developed because Microsoft did not offer comprehensive Windows 7 support for the Atom processor . On 16 February 2010 a tech talk notice was posted about the former Maemo development project founded in 2009 and code named Harmattan , that originally slated to become Maemo 6. Those notice stated that Harmattan is now considered to be

282-598: A change in direction it was stopped in February 2011, leaving Intel alone in the project. The Linux Foundation canceled MeeGo in September 2011 in favor of Tizen , which Intel then joined in collaboration with Samsung . A community-driven successor called Mer was formed that year. A Finnish start-up, Jolla , picked up Mer to develop a new operating system: Sailfish OS , and launched the Jolla Phone smartphone at

329-462: A custom user interface and was made available in September 2010. The GENIVI Alliance, a consortium of several car makers and their industry partners, uses Moblin with Qt as base for its 'GENIVI 1.0 Reference Platform' for In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) and automotive navigation system as a uniformed mobile computing platform. Graham Smethurst of GENIVI Alliance and BMW Group announced in April 2010

376-586: A dual-core processor exclusive, and was planned to be released late 2013 or early 2014. However, in May 2012 a Nokia executive claimed that Carla and Donna were cancelled, and that Nokia would instead only release Belle Feature Pack 2 later in 2012, lacking many of the new features that were planned for Carla and Donna. Many devices are capable of running the S60 software platform with the Symbian OS . Devices ranging from

423-490: A large part in the MeeGo effort, working with the Linux Foundation on their build infrastructure and official MeeGo products. Amino was responsible for extending MeeGo to TV devices, while Novell was increasingly introducing technology that was originally developed for openSUSE , (including Open Build Service , ZYpp for package management , and other system management tools). In November 2010, AMD also joined

470-490: A later time some of the former MeeGo developers from Nokia headed for founding the company Jolla that after some time popped up with a MeeGo and its free successor Mer-based OS platform they called Sailfish OS . MeeGo provided support for both ARM and Intel x86 processors with SSSE3 enabled and used btrfs as the default file system . Within the MeeGo project there are several graphical user interfaces – internally called User Experiences ("UX"). The Netbook UX

517-404: A menu key, a four way joystick or d-pad, left and right soft keys and a clear key. S60 was mainly used by Nokia but they also licensed it to a few other manufacturers, including Lenovo , LG Electronics , Panasonic , Samsung , Sendo , Siemens Mobile , Sony Ericsson , Solstice and Vertu . Sony Ericsson notably was the main vendor using the competing UIQ Symbian interface. In addition to

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564-405: A newer version of Evolution Express , and more. Any end-users can also build their own customized Smeegol Linux OS using SUSE Studio . Fedora 14 contains a selection of software from the MeeGo project. Linpus Technologies is working on bringing their services on top of MeeGo Netbook and MeeGo Tablet. The latest version of the instant-on OS Splashtop -platform (by Splashtop Inc. which

611-472: A partnership with Microsoft for mobile handsets and the departure of Nokia's MeeGo team manager Alberto Torres, leading to speculation as to Nokia's future participation in MeeGo development or using Windows Phone by Nokia. In September 2011, Nokia began shipping the first MeeGo smartphone Nokia N9 , ahead of the Windows Phone 7 launch expected later this year. The first MeeGo-based tablet WeTab

658-591: A platform but does not have to be adapted to run on the Windows, Linux or Macintosh OS platforms. However, the JVM, the layer beneath the application, does have to be built separately for each OS. MeeGo MeeGo is a discontinued Linux distribution hosted by the Linux Foundation , using source code from the operating systems Moblin (produced by Intel ) and Maemo (produced by Nokia ). MeeGo

705-523: A software update to the Symbian Anna release. Three new devices (603, 700 and 701) were announced with Belle pre-installed. The most significant changes were: In November 2011, Nokia announced the Carla and Donna updates. Carla was expected to be released in late 2012 or early 2013 and feature a new web browser, new widgets, new NFC capabilities and Dolby Surround audio enhancement. Donna was going to be

752-585: A technology pool from which software vendors can derive new products. Even though MeeGo was initiated as collaboration between Nokia and Intel, the collaboration was formed when Nokia was already developing the next incarnation of its Maemo Linux distribution. As a result, the Maemo 6 base operating system was kept intact while the Handset UX was shared, with the name changed to "MeeGo/Harmattan". On 21 June 2011, Nokia announced its first MeeGo/Harmattan smartphone device, Nokia N9 . The original Mer project

799-614: Is a continuation of the Moblin interface. It is written using the Clutter -based Mx toolkit , and uses the Mutter window manager . Samsung Netbook NP-N100 use MeeGo for its operating system. MeeGo's netbook version uses several Linux applications in the background, such as Evolution (Email, calendar), Empathy (instant messaging), Gwibber (microblogging), Chromium (web browser), and Banshee (multimedia player), all integrated into

846-608: Is an operating system developed by the Finnish startup Jolla . It also incorporates Mer . After Nokia abandoned their participation in the MeeGo project, the directors and core professionals from Nokia's N9 team left the company and together formed Jolla, to bring MeeGo back into the market mainstream. This effort eventually resulted in the creation of the Sailfish OS. The Sailfish OS and the Sailfish OS SDK are based on

893-574: Is one of the first Linux distributions to deploy Btrfs as the default file system . Although most of the software in MeeGo's Jolla interface use the Qt widget toolkit , it also supports GTK+ . The final revision of MeeGo Qt v4.7, Qt Mobility v1.0, OpenGL ES v2.0. MeeGo also supports the Accounts & SSO , Maliit , oFono software frameworks . MeeGo compiles software with the openSUSE Build Service . As with Moblin before, MeeGo also serves as

940-463: The Qt framework , which is the core part of Meego's API (see above), Tizen cannot technically be considered to be a derivate of MeeGo. On 1 June 2010, Novell announced that they would ship a SUSE Linux incarnation with MeeGo's Netbook UX (MeeGo User Experience) graphical user interface. A MeeGo-based Linux distribution with this user interface is already available from openSUSE 's Goblin Team under

987-516: The open source foundation, Symbian Foundation , who would independently own the Symbian operating system. It announced its intent to unify different Symbian UIs into a single UI based on the S60 platform. S60 5th Edition was the first version under the unified Symbian interface, and it was therefore also named Symbian^1. After this, the S60 name was dropped entirely with the release of Symbian^3 in 2010. In November 2010, Nokia abruptly announced that

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1034-473: The S60 brand and were named solely under the Symbian name. The S60 middleware was a multivendor standard for smartphones that supports application development in Java MIDP , C++ , Python and Adobe Flash . Its API was called Avkon UI. S60 consists of a suite of libraries and standard applications, such as telephony, personal information manager (PIM) tools, and Helix -based multimedia players. It

1081-569: The Sailfish OS is characterised by: Although Tizen was initially announced as a continuation of the MeeGo effort, there is little shared effort and architecture between these projects, since Tizen inherited much more from Samsung's LiMo than from MeeGo. As most of the Tizen work is happening behind closed doors and is done by Intel and Samsung engineers, the people involved in the former MeeGo open source project continued their work under Mer and projects associated with it. Because Tizen does not use

1128-595: The Symbian Foundation will close down, leaving further Symbian development in question. The company had previously stated that MeeGo would become its smartphone future. In February 2011, Nokia instead announced a partnership with Microsoft to adopt Windows Phone 7 as Nokia's primary operating system, while promising continued support for Symbian and its newer devices until at least 2016. On 29 April 2011, Nokia announced that it would transfer Symbian activities to Accenture along with 3,000 employees. Symbian^3

1175-544: The addition of pinch-to-zoom. The native text messaging app now features a "conversation" interface. While the virtual keyboard is still T9, a QWERTY is offered in landscape view. On 12 April 2011, Nokia announced Symbian Anna as a software update to the Symbian^3 release. Three new devices (500, X7 and E6) were announced which will have Symbian Anna pre-installed. The most significant changes were: On 24 August 2011, Nokia announced Symbian Belle (later renamed Nokia Belle) as

1222-496: The alliance of companies that were actively developing MeeGo. Quite noticeable changes in the project setup happened on 11 February 2011 when Nokia officially announced to switch over to Windows Phone 7 and thus abandoning MeeGo and the partnership. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said in an interview with Engadget : "What we’re doing is not thinking of MeeGo as the Plan B. We’re thinking about MeeGo and related development work as what’s

1269-550: The case of an application program or a computer video game , the most relevant layer is the operating system, so it can be called a platform itself (hence the term cross-platform for software that can be executed on multiple OSes, in this context). In a multi-computer system, such as in the case of offloading processing, it would encompass both the host computer's hardware , operating system (OS), and runtime libraries along with other computers utilized for processing that are accessed via application programming interfaces or

1316-577: The core and the tools of the Mer core distribution, which is a revival of the core of the MeeGo project (a meritocracy -governed and managed successor of the MeeGo OS, but without its own Graphical User Interface and system kernel ). Sailfish includes a multi-tasking user interface that Jolla intends to use to differentiate its smartphones from others and as a competitive advantage against devices that run Google's Android or Apple's iOS . Among other things,

1363-470: The early Nokia 7650 running S60 v0.9 on Symbian OS v6.1, to the latest Samsung i8910 Omnia HD running S60 v5.0 on Symbian OS v9.4. In Symbian^3 the version of the revised platform is v5.2. The table lists devices carrying each version of S60 as well as the Symbian OS version on what it is based. Devices since Symbian^3 may be capable of upgrading to newer versions. Symbian Belle Symbian Belle –

1410-435: The end of 2013. Another Mer derivative called Nemo Mobile was also developed. MeeGo was intended to run on a variety of hardware platforms including hand-helds, in-car devices, netbooks and televisions. All platforms shared the MeeGo core, with different "User Experience" ("UX") layers for each type of device. MeeGo was designed by combining the best of both Intel's Fedora-based Moblin and Nokia's Debian-based Maemo. When it

1457-434: The facts, the features and the pictures Platform (computing) Sometimes, the most relevant layer for a specific software is called a computing platform in itself to facilitate the communication, referring to the whole using only one of its attributes – i.e. using a metonymy . For example, in a single computer system, this would be the computer's architecture , operating system (OS), and runtime libraries . In

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1504-548: The former MeeGo user interface were already ported to run on top of Mer, such as the handset reference UX, now called Nemo Mobile . There are also a couple of new tablet UXes available, such as Cordia and Plasma Active . Mer is considered to be the legitimate successor of Meego, as the other follow-up project Tizen (see below) changed the APIs fundamentally. Nemo Mobile is a community driven operating system incorporating Mer targeted at mobile phones and tablet. Sailfish OS

1551-647: The graphical user interface. The Handset UX is based on Qt , with GTK+ and Clutter included to provide compatibility for Moblin applications. To support the hundreds of Hildon -based Maemo applications, users have to install the Hildon library ported by the maemo.org community. Depending on the device, applications will be provided from either the Intel AppUp or the Nokia Ovi digital software distribution systems. The MeeGo Handset UX's "Day 1" prerelease

1598-455: The manufacturers the community includes: There have been four major releases of S60: Series 60 (2001), Series 60 Second Edition (2002), S60 3rd Edition (2005) and S60 5th Edition (2008). Each release had an updated version called Feature Pack , sometimes known as relay . Each runs on top of a different Symbian OS version. As an OS, Symbian OS originally provided no user interface (UI), the visual layer that runs atop an operating system: this

1645-548: The name Smeegol Linux , this project combines MeeGo with openSUSE to get a new netbook-designed Linux distribution. What makes Smeegol Linux unique when compared to the upstream MeeGo or openSUSE is that this distribution is at its core based on openSUSE but has the MeeGo User Experience as well as a few other changes such as adding the Mono -based Banshee media player , NetworkManager -powered network configuration,

1692-451: The next generation." Nokia did eventually release one MeeGo smartphone that year running "Harmattan", the Nokia N9 . On 27 September 2011, it was announced by Intel employee Imad Sousou that in collaboration with Samsung Solstice , MeeGo will be replaced by Tizen during 2012. Community developers from the Mer project, however, started to continue MeeGo without Intel and Nokia. At

1739-656: The project's license policy requires that MeeGo's reference User Experience subsystems be licensed under a Permissive free software license – except for libraries that extend MeeGo API's (which were licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License to help discourage fragmentation), or applications (which can be licensed separately). The MeeGo Core integrates elements of two other Linux distributions: Maemo (a distribution which Nokia derived from Debian ) and Moblin (which Intel derived from Fedora ). MeeGo uses RPM software repositories . It

1786-553: The switch from Moblin to MeeGo. Intel planned to develop a version of MeeGo for IPTV set top boxes, but had since cancelled. The MeeGo framework consists of a wide variety of original and upstream components, all of which are licensed under licenses certified by the Free Initiative (such as the GNU General Public License ). To allow hardware vendors to personalize their device's user experiences,

1833-644: Was a free re-implementation of Maemo, ported to the Nokia Internet Tablet N800. When MeeGo first appeared this work was discontinued and the development effort went to MeeGo. After both Nokia and then Intel abandoned MeeGo, the Mer project was revived and continued to develop the MeeGo codebase and tools. It is now being developed in the open by a meritocratic community. Mer provides a Core capable of running various UXs developed by various other projects, and will include maintained application development APIs, such as Qt, EFL, and HTML5/WAC. Some of

1880-415: Was announced together with Nokia N8 on 27 April 2010. The software is faster than the previous S60 5th Edition and takes better advantage of hardware capabilities to create a snappier performance. Interface wise it is not drastically different although it does have multiple home screens. The task switcher has been revamped and now show thumbnails of each open app. Web browsing experience is also improved with

1927-501: Was first announced, the then President and CEO of Nokia, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo , said that MeeGo would create an ecosystem, which would be the best among other operating systems and would represent players from different countries. MeeGo T01 was first announced at Mobile World Congress in February 2010 by Intel and Nokia in a joint press conference. The stated aim is to merge the efforts of Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo former projects into one new common project that would drive

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1974-536: Was followed by three other major releases. In 2008 after Nokia bought out Symbian Ltd., the Symbian Foundation was formed to consolidate all the assets of different Symbian platforms (S60, UIQ , MOAP ), making it open source . In 2009, based on the code base of S60, the first iteration of the platform since the creation of Symbian Foundation was launched as S60 5th Edition, or Symbian^1, on top of Symbian OS 9.4 as its base. Subsequent iterations dropped

2021-465: Was implemented separately. Other than S60, other examples of Symbian UIs were MOAP ; Series 80 ; Series 90 and UIQ . This separation of UI from underlying OS created both flexibility and some confusion in the market place. The Nokia outright purchase of Symbian in June 2008 was brokered with the involvement of the other UI developers and all major user interface layers had been (or pledged to) donating to

2068-512: Was intended to power fully featured modern phones with large colour screens, which are commonly known as smartphones . Originally, the most distinguishing feature of S60 phones was that they allowed users to install new applications after purchase. Unlike a standard desktop platform, however, the built-in apps are rarely upgraded by the vendor beyond bug fixes. New features are only added to phones while they are being developed rather than after public release. Certain buttons are standardized, such as

2115-653: Was on 30 June 2010. The preview was initially available for the Aava Mobile Intel Moorestown platform, and a 'kickstart' file provided for developers to build an image for the Nokia N900 . MeeGo OS v1.2 "Harmattan" is used in Nokia N9 and N950 phones. Intel demonstrated the Tablet UX on a Moorestown-based tablet PC at COMPUTEX Taipei in early June 2010. Since then, some information appeared on MeeGo website indicating there will be

2162-607: Was previously named DeviceVM Inc.) is compliant with MeeGo, and future version of Splashtop will be based on MeeGo and will be available for commercial use in the first half of 2011. It was announced at the Intel Developer Forum 2010 that MeeGo would follow a six-month release schedule. Version 1.0 for Atom netbooks and a code drop for the Nokia N900 became available for download as of Wednesday, 26 May 2010 . Project planning In February 2011, Nokia announced

2209-507: Was primarily targeted at mobile devices and information appliances in the consumer electronics market. It was designed to act as an operating system for hardware platforms such as netbooks , entry-level desktops, nettops , tablet computers , mobile computing and communications devices, in-vehicle infotainment devices, SmartTV / ConnectedTV , IPTV -boxes, smart phones , and other embedded systems . Nokia wanted to make MeeGo its primary smartphone operating system in 2010, but after

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