MeeGo Coming to Nokia N900 This Year!

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By Mike Browne on March 5,

2010 at 00:00,

The Nokia N900 has rightly been the focus of a great deal of attention in recent months. This is set to continue as it's been revealed the Nokia N900 will be the focus for the first stage of the MeeGo operating system. What's more, there are hints that it will happen sooner than people think. Join us after the jump for the latest on MeeGo and the Nokia N900...

Valtteri Halla, who refers to himself as a 'Nokia member of the currently two-person Technical Steering Group (TSG) of MeeGo', makes reference to the Nokia N900 being the starting point for MeeGo in his opening blog post for the MeeGo Community site.

We hope to move on here very quickly now. Nokia and Intel have set the target to open the MeeGo repository by the end of this month. I guess this is something that finally will signify the real "Day One" of MeeGo project, a genuine merger of moblin and maemo. What is scheduled to be available then is the first and very raw baseline to a source and binary repository to build MeeGo trunk on Intel ATOM boards and Nokia N900.

It's the 'We hope to move on here very quickly now.' part that has us getting excited the most. This means the guys working on MeeGo are already thinking about getting the platform rocking in such a form that devices will be out this year.

Whether that is a new flavour of Nokia N900 or its successor but with both Nokia and Intel knocking us for six with the MeeGo announcement – and nary a whisper of it coming – it's bound to come as a real surprise when it lands.

What do you think, will we see MeeGo running on the Nokia N900 or do we want a new device for this brand new OS? Let us know what you think the Comments below.

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http://bharatikunal.wordpress.com Kunal

I dont think we need new device for new os. And also its not a new os. Maemo and Moblin are merged to create Meego.

N900 is a very good hardware. Getting Meego on N900 will be good. Also knowing that meego will run on n900 people will buy the device now

I have n900 device and I will upgrade it to meego as soon as it is released
http://drgeorge.org ricegf

I\’m more than willing to reflash my N900 with MeeGo 1 as soon as it offers superior value to Maemo 5 – but since MeeGo 1 == Maemo 6, I expect that to be more of an evolutionary upgrade compared to the revolutionary MeeGo 2 next year. Just speculating here.
George

me go for meego.:-)
Pete Miller

Yes, I\’m an N900 owner and as it stands, without Meego, this handset is dead in the water. There are many shortcomings in the N900 software stack and without some way to address these my investment was wasted. Unless Nokia deliver a compelling platform real soon they will be a spent force. And if it does not work soon, I will not be making another investment in Nokia technology
ghime

u go me go we goo
detyy

the news of this is fantastic,
but if it is released later this month than how will the operating system be changed on my N900?
who can do it and how? :S
zeka

Can I use N900 to my MEGO this software. but I’ve bought a week ago and have heard the news that Intel and Linux have joined forces To do a better N900. and not understand or can I take in this month end this Software. thanks from Kosovo
http://www.semiloose.blogspot.com Semi

anything as long as it works
pedrosk

We need hardware that can work better on ATT network. I had it on Tmobil and I had to kiss MMS good bie. FMMS app worked OK, but not reliably on Tmobile. I moved to a different part of the US where there is no Tmobil and with ATT I don’t even get 3G because N900 lacks the necessary frequency. So yes we need a better device.
We also need a better email client. The one that N900 comes with is a joke. The web browser is slooowwww on many websites. …..

I am a big open source supporter, but we have to better than this ….