MeeGo’s Debut in Smartphone
MeeGo based phones finally make its debut with the release of source code for Linux-based platform made by Intel and Nokia. Source code can be used by developers to test their performance and create applications that support.
“Source code for this phone is available for the developer community. This code was developed as a version 1.1 which is scheduled to be released next October,” writes a blog on behalf Valterri MeeGo Halla and Imad Sousou of MeeGo Technical Steering Group.
In the source code, includes API (application programming interface), the reference sample interface, and some basic applications and features such as locking the screen, application launcher, virtual keyboard, phone dialer, sending SMS, browser, contacts, and photo viewer.
In addition, the available MeeGo Core OS is also completed with the component so that it can be applied on Intel Atom-based handset and Nokia N900 to use ARM-based processor. On the MeeGo’s site, there are also the illustrations of the screen display when used in handsets and video showing how the applications work.
MeeGo is the result of a merger between Maemo Linux development projects from Nokia and Intel’s Moblin Linux as agreed in the World Mobile Congress 2010 in Barcelona, Spain a few months ago. Not just for mobile phones, MeeGo is also designed for a variety of portable devices such as netbooks and tablets. The first version of MeeGo source code made for netbook has been released last May.