72-509: WeTab (initially announced as WePad ) is a MeeGo -based tablet computer announced by German producer Neofonie in April 2010. The specifics include an 11.6-inch TN-panel touch screen (1366×768 resolution), a 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N450 processor with fan, 16 GB NAND memory and a total weight of the device of an announced 800 g (1.8 lb ), but actually 1.002 kg (2.21 lb ). Most media coverage in relation to
144-550: A 1 GHz ARM Cortex A8 CPU which runs the operating system and applications, an Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX530 GPU supporting OpenGL ES 2.0 and capable of processing up to 14 million polygons per second; and a 430 MHz TI TMS320C64x, a digital signal processor , which does image processing for the camera, audio processing for telephony and data transmission. The system also has 1 GB of low power single channel RAM ( Mobile DDR ). Compcache uses part of this memory as compressed fast swap. It was, at
216-499: A BV-5JW 3.8V 1450mAh battery. According to Nokia, this provides from 7h to 11h of continuous talk time, from 16 to 19.5 days of standby, 4.5h of video playback and up to 50h of music playback. The phone supports USB charging only. A number of devices can be used with the N9 via several connectivity options: external keyboards via Bluetooth , wireless headphones via NFC , wireless loudspeakers via NFC, and many others. Strictly speaking,
288-529: 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
360-739: 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
432-465: 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
504-426: A call. It has also an ambient light sensor that adjusts the display brightness. The device also makes use of its accelerometer to rotate the screen in portrait/landscape mode for some applications, such as the web browser. N9 has an autonomous GPS feature with optional A-GPS functionality, Wi-Fi network positioning, a magnetometer, and comes pre-loaded with Nokia Maps and Nokia Drive applications. Nokia Maps
576-598: 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
648-728: A closed user experience. As with Maemo 5 on the Nokia N900, the community can request a closed source component owned by Nokia to be released as open source. Hundreds of 3rd party applications, mostly free and open source, have already been created or ported to the Linux MeeGo Harmattan platform. Images of an N9 prototype running Android 2.3 were leaked to Sina Weibo by a user who had previously uploaded prototype images of Nokia's Sea Ray (later Lumia 800 ) Windows Phone. They were believed to be likely genuine, as Steven Elop had mentioned Nokia had considered Android in
720-410: 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
792-765: 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 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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#1732791974658864-490: 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
936-490: 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
1008-405: 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
1080-472: 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
1152-585: 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
1224-614: 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
1296-608: 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
1368-401: Is capable of displaying up to 16.7 million colors. The OLED screen is covered by a curved scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla glass. The gap between the glass and the display has been reduced and the screen is coated with an anti-glare polarizer to ease the usability in daylight. There is a proximity sensor which deactivates the display and touchscreen when the device is brought near the face during
1440-467: Is designed to be fully API compatible with MeeGo 1.2 via Qt. As far as end users and application developers are concerned, the distinction between Harmattan and MeeGo 1.2 is minimal. Since all marketing effort would have been directed to "MeeGo", Nokia dropped the Maemo branding to adopt MeeGo as to not confuse customers. The Nokia N9 user experience provides three panes, called Home , and a Lock Screen . Dragging or flicking horizontally navigates between
1512-574: 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
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#17327919746581584-497: Is possibly the most beautiful phone ever made," and "MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan is such a breath of fresh air it will leave you gasping — that is, until you remember that you're dealing with a dead man walking." In a review for Ars Technica , Ryan Paul writes: "The N9 is an impressively engineered device that is matched with a sophisticated touch-oriented interface and a powerful software stack with open source underpinnings." The Verge (website) writes: "The Nokia N9 is, without doubt, one of
1656-723: Is protected by a small door. The built-in Bluetooth v2.1 +EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) supports stereo audio output with the A2DP profile. Built-in car hands-free kits are also supported with the HFP profile. File transfer is supported ( FTP ) along with the OPP profile for sending/receiving objects. It is possible to remote control the device with the AVRCP profile. The Bluetooth chip also functions as an FM Receiver/Transmitter, allowing one to listen to
1728-480: Is similar to Ovi Maps found on recent Symbian devices from Nokia and is mostly about finding nearby places (restaurants, metro station, theater, etc...) around the user. Nokia Maps for MeeGo is also integrated with the Contacts and Calendar applications. Nokia Drive is a dedicated application for car navigation and provides free lifetime turn-by-turn voice guided car navigation. The Nokia N9 comes with preloaded maps of
1800-482: Is used by MeeGo system for noise cancellation which make phone conversations clearer in noisy environment. On the top, there is a 3.5 mm AV connector which simultaneously provides stereo audio output, with support for Dolby Headphone , and either microphone input or video output. Next to the 3.5 mm connector, there is a High-Speed USB 2.0 USB Micro-B connector provided for data synchronization, mass storage mode (client) and battery charging. The USB connector
1872-463: 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
1944-704: The Saturn Media Markt chain. In February 2012, Nokia N9 appeared on the Italian Nokia site, which is supposed to be a sign of N9 being in official Nokia distribution for the Italian market. Prices in January 2012 were, depending on the size of the internal memory, between €500 and €630. The Nokia N9 is powered by a Texas Instruments OMAP 3630 which is a System-on-a-chip based on a 45 nanometer CMOS process. It includes three processor units:
2016-589: The Windows Phone -powered Nokia Lumia 800 which was released later that year. The successor of Nokia N900 , internally known as N9-00, was scheduled to be released in late 2010, approximately one year after N900 launched. Pictures of the prototype leaked in August 2010 showed an industrial design and a 4-row keyboard. A software engineer working for Nokia's device division cited the N9-00 (the product number) in
2088-418: The 16:9 aspect ratio is 3552 × 2000 px (7.1 megapixels), and 3248 × 2448 px (8 megapixels) for the 4:3 aspect ratio. Typically, a 16:9 picture format on a digital camera is achieved by cropping the top and bottom of a 4:3 image, since the sensor is 4:3. Nokia N9 genuinely provides more in the width of the picture by choosing the 16:9 aspect ratio option by using the full 3552-pixel width of the sensor, and more in
2160-730: The FM radio by using headphones connected to the 3.5 jack as antenna. As with the Nokia N800, N810 and N900, it will ship without software support. However an FM radio application is already available in OVI Store from independent developer. NFC is also supported for sharing photos, contacts, or music with other devices supporting NFC (e.g. Nokia C7 , Nokia 701 ) and also pairing (connecting) stereo speakers (e.g. Nokia Play 360 ) and headset (e.g. Nokia BH-505 ). More than one device can be connected simultaneously with N9 via NFC. The Nokia N9 has
2232-511: The N9 only because of Nokia's earlier decision to drop MeeGo for Windows Phone for future smartphones – often questioning this decision at the same time. Engadget 's editor Vlad Savov said in June 2011 that "it's a terrific phone that's got me legitimately excited to use it, but its future is clouded by a parent that's investing its time and money into building up a whole other OS." In a later review, Engadget writes: "Love at first sight — this
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2304-546: The N9 reached number 1 in ranking "by rate" with a rate of 8.432 (out of 10) and votes of 74,940, and also number 5 by daily interest hits in GSMArena's ranking. In April 2012, the N9 was awarded a Design and Art Direction "Yellow Pencil", in the interactive product design category, beating among others the iPad 2 and the Nokia Lumia 800 . The approach applied by Nokia is one of an open platform, with exception, and
2376-558: The N9, and instead the community will provide the unofficial port for Sailfish OS. However, Jolla maintained that the experience will not be the same as the Sailfish on official Jolla phones (Jolla released the first Jolla mobile phone on 27 November 2013). Sailfish OS is the first full Linux MeeGo OS, as the MeeGo Harmattan was only a "MeeGo instance" because of not fully finished combining of Maemo and Moblin . Sailfish OS
2448-643: The N9, including the visual style and double-tap feature, was resurrected in the Nokia Asha platform , which was introduced on the Nokia Asha 501 device in 2013. The Nokia N9 was announced at Nokia's Connections event in Singapore, June 2011. The reception for the device has been very positive, citing the MeeGo v1.2 Harmattan UI, pseudo-buttonless design, polycarbonate unibody construction and its NFC capabilities. Still, many reviewers did not recommend to buy
2520-647: The Nokia N9 does not run MeeGo 1.2 as its operating system. It instead runs what Nokia refers to as a "MeeGo instance". During the development of Harmattan (previously marketed as Maemo 6), Nokia and Intel merged their open source projects into one new common project called MeeGo. Not to postpone the development schedule, Nokia decided to keep the "core" of Harmattan, such as middleware components (GStreamer) and packaging managers (the Harmattan system uses Debian packages instead of RPM packages ). Nonetheless, Harmattan
2592-569: 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
2664-521: The Sailfish OS running on a Nokia N950 appeared on the Internet the same day as the announcement. As the N950 has similar technical specifications as the N9, with slight differences including a physical QWERTY keyboard, this led many owners of the N9 to believe that Sailfish OS can be ported to the N9. Jolla confirmed this, but also stated that it has no "official possibilities" for such kind of support for
2736-611: The United States. Other reports indicated that the device will not be available in other markets such as Japan, Canada and Germany. Nokia posted on the official blog in the last week of September 2011 that N9 phones are heading to the stores. The initial retail price was announced to be around €480 (16GB) and €560 (64GB) before applicable taxes or subsidies. In Germany, devices imported from Switzerland are available online from Amazon and German Cyberport GmbH. In January 2012, they were also made available in some major stores of
2808-573: The WeTab took place in German. WeTab GmbH began mass marketing in September 2010. Retailers of the device are Amazon.de and German electronics retail giant Media Markt . The WeTab runs the Linux-based MeeGo operating system and thus can execute native Linux programs, additionally Adobe AIR applications work. Android apps are supported via Virtual Machine . MeeGo MeeGo is
2880-496: 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
2952-506: The company's partnership with Microsoft announced that year. It was initially released in three colors: black, cyan and magenta, before a white version was announced at Nokia World 2011 . Despite a limited release, the N9 received widespread critical acclaim, with some describing it as Nokia's finest device to date. It was praised for both its software and hardware, including the MeeGo operating system, buttonless 'swipe' user interface, and its high-end features. The case would be reused for
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3024-421: The continent where it was purchased, and as such, Nokia Drive does not require an active data connection and can work as a stand-alone GPS navigator. The main (back) camera has an autofocus feature, dual LED flash, is optimized for 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratios, and has a 4× digital zoom for both video and camera. The sensor size of the back camera is 8.7 megapixels (3552 × 2448 px); the effective resolution for
3096-577: 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,
3168-412: The device facing the screen, on the right side, there is a power on/off (long press) and lock/unlock (short press) button and volume keys. The Nokia N9 has fewer hardware buttons than most smartphones and makes extensive use of the touchscreen to navigate the user interface. For example, to minimize a running application, the user has to swipe their finger from one side of the bezel surrounding the screen to
3240-435: 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
3312-548: 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
3384-647: 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
3456-466: The hands of retailers and operators. Elop restated that the company will not be continuing development of MeeGo even if the N9 would be a success, focusing solely on the future Lumia series, something that MeeGo supporters already felt before the N9 announcement due to the Microsoft deal. They responded by creating a petition "We want Nokia to keep MeeGo". That was even more severe as MeeGo Linux
3528-403: The height of the picture by choosing the 4:3 aspect ratio option by using the full 2448-pixel height of the sensor. The Carl Zeiss lens has quite unusual specifications for a mobile phone: 28mm wide-angle lens focal length , fast (for this class) f/2.2 aperture , and a 10 cm-to-infinity focus range. It is capable of recording up to 720p video at 30 fps with stereo sound. When holding
3600-588: The largest smartphone markets such as the U.S., Canada, UK, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and others. Nokia did not disclose the number of sales for the N9. In November 2011, the Nokia N9 won 3 out of 4 applicable titles (including design, camera and cellphone of the year) at a gala held by Swedish magazine and webzine Mobil.se. In January 2012, the Nokia N9 Swipe UI was nominated for an IxDA Interaction Award. In February 2012,
3672-565: The most fascinating phones of the last few years." Gsmarena titled the Nokia N9 review "Once in a lifetime" with overwhelmingly positive feedback. The German Der Spiegel titles "this could have been Nokia's winner", and the German magazine Stern describes it as one of the best devices ever made by Nokia. Delimiter called the N9 Nokia's "most significant" handset since the Nokia N95 . The Nokia N9 has not been released in most of
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#17327919746583744-548: 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,
3816-451: 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
3888-429: The opposite side. There is also no dedicated shutter key for the camera; the touch screen is instead used to focus and take the picture. The screen can be unlocked by double tapping on it. The N9 has two microphones and a loudspeaker situated at the bottom of the phone. The main microphone enables conversation and recording. The second microphone is located on the back of the device near the flash LEDs and main camera, it
3960-553: The past. An unofficial Android 4.1.1 port by the NITDroid community was made. The port features general functionality but misses some features such as voice calling and use of the camera. On 21 November 2012, Jolla announced and demonstrated Sailfish OS , which is direct continuation and based on MeeGo. Above 80% of the first Linux Sailfish OS is the open source part of the Linux MeeGo. The original MeeGo open source code
4032-656: 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
4104-514: The public bug tracker for Qt , an open source application development framework used in MeeGo. This would later be known as the N950 . This design was dropped; then Nokia started working on the N9-01, codenamed Lankku, a new variant without a keyboard. Nokia planned in 2010 to make MeeGo their flagship smartphone platform, replacing Symbian , whose N8 flagship launched that year. Thus effectively N9
4176-553: 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,
4248-406: The three panes of the home. The Home consists of: When in an application a swipe gesture from one edge of the screen to the other one will return the user to one of the three views of Home . This will not close the application, it will either be suspended or keep running in the background, depending on the application. To close an application, the user must press and hold until a red "X" appears on
4320-472: The time, the most powerful device Nokia created. All user data is stored on the internal eMMC chip; in 16 and 64 GB variants. The N9 was the first smartphone to encompass 64 GB of storage. Nokia N9 has a 3.9-inch (99 mm) capacitive touchscreen (up to 6 simultaneous points) with a resolution of 854 × 480 pixels ( FWVGA , 251 ppi ) in PenTile RGBG layout. According to Nokia, it
4392-496: The time, the phone was presumed to become available to the public in September 2011. Users can get notified via e-mail of the availability of N9 in their country at the webpage of the Nokia Online Store. Since Nokia closed its Nokia Online Shop in many countries, including Poland, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States on 30 June 2011, availability in those countries will be in
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#17327919746584464-719: The upper left corner of the application thumbnail in the Open Application view, which will close it. The user may also close apps by swiping from the top of the device and down while in the application (with fadeout effect). Tapping on the status bar on the top of the screen while using an application will display a menu allowing the user to adjust the volume, change the active profile (silent, beep & ringing), Internet connection (WiFi, GSM data), bluetooth control shortcut (if enabled in Bluetooth settings), media sharing (DLNA) shortcut (if enabled in media sharing settings which
4536-644: 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
4608-449: Was also a form of continuation of Maemo Linux, which was established with combining Nokia's Maemo with Intel 's Moblin , in frames of Nokia and Intel alliance created for purposes of such cooperation. Despite the success of the alliance, it was broken and MeeGo canceled by Stephen Elop's decision. Intel officially expressed regrets because of this situation. After the N9's positive reception and generally weak sales of its Lumia range, Elop
4680-423: Was criticised for this move, which has been said by some to have contributed to the company's demise in the smartphone market. According to Elop following the Microsoft alliance, MeeGo became an experimental "project", with some of Harmattan's interface elements being used in the cancelled "Meltemi" project and later the Nokia Asha platform . In August 2011, Nokia announced that Nokia N9 will not be released in
4752-578: Was developed further in frames of Mer (software distribution) which comes from MEego Reinstated and has established current standard of the middleware stack core, so software above a kernel and below a UI of OS, what's more it is open source and free for vendors. The Harmattan UI and several software applications used in the N9 was closed and proprietary of Nokia, hence could not be used neither in MER project nor Sailfish OS. So Jolla introduced its own swipe UI, used MER core standard and created Sailfish OS. Videos of
4824-501: 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
4896-599: Was introduced in PR 1.2) and availability. The Lock Screen display the status bar, a clock and some notifications. This screen also holds music controls (introduced in PR 1.1) when the music player is active. It is customizable by the end user. The phone can be unlocked by double tapping on the screen. Sliding and holding the lock screen up reveals 4 shortcuts, called the Quick Launcher . The Quick Launcher can also be accessed while using an application. The swiping UI of
4968-437: Was launched in 2010 by Neofonie . In early July 2012, Nokia's Meego development lead Sotiris Makrygiannis and other team members left Nokia. Nokia N9 The Nokia N9 (codename Lankku ) is a flagship smartphone developed by Nokia , running on the Linux-based MeeGo mobile operating system . Announced in June 2011 and released in September, it was the first and only device from Nokia with MeeGo, partly because of
5040-653: 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
5112-486: Was originally meant to be the flagship device from the company. On 11 February 2011 Nokia partnered with Microsoft to use Windows Phone 7 as the flagship operating system to replace Symbian, with MeeGo also sidelined. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop promised to still ship one MeeGo device that year, which would end up as the N9. Nokia N9 was announced on 21 June 2011 at the Nokia Connection event in Singapore. At
5184-548: 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
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