MeeGo Gone Wild! Features detailed, companies come on board at IDF 2010 (updated)

Wow, the MeeGo news is flying fast and furious today! Our first stop is the Intel Developer Forum, where a recent talk detailed feature lists for netbooks and handhelds running (presumably) 1.0. For the former, you can expect to see it rockin' Chrome (or Chromium), and overhauled social messaging, media, camera, email, and calendar apps. That's in addition to touch and gesture support. As for handhelds, Fennec with Flash support popped up on the slides (probably a carry-over from Maemo, since they already have Mozilla with Flash), VOIP (at least until the carriers get involved), instant messaging, social networking, location-based services, cloud data syncing, and portrait mode support -- not to mention "the Intel app-store framework that can be used to make branded 3rd-party app stores." But that ain't all! According to some freshly minted PR, the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco will be lousy with developers starting Wednesday when the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit begins in earnest. To be announced at tomorrow's keynote are a host of companies that are throwing their lot in with the mobile OS, including: EA Mobile, BMW Group, Acer, Gameloft, Novell, ASUS, and more. Which is all well and good, but the question remains: when are we finally gonna get our hands on an LG GW990? PR after the break.

Update: We added a couple shots of the very in-progress UI from Intel's slide show. See more after the break.

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MeeGo Developer Community Grows As Software Ecosystem Support Broadens

The MeeGo project receives industry-wide support while it gets down to the business of writing code

SAN FRANCISCO, April 12, 2010 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that companies from a broad range of sectors have committed to and are participating in the MeeGo project.

Participants today include leading device manufacturers, operating system vendors (OSVs), chipset manufacturers, independent software vendors (ISVs) and development communities. Supporting statements are attached from Acer, Amino, Asianux, Asus, BMW Group, Collabora, Ltd., CS2C, DeviceVM, EA Mobile, Gameloft, Hancom, Linpus, Maemo Community Council, Mandriva, Metasys, Miracle, MontaVista Software, Novell, PixArt, Red Flag, ST-Ericsson, Tencent, TurboLinux, VietSoftware, Wind River, WTEC, and Xandros.

This participation translates into millions of developer hours dedicated to cross-device compatibility, application portability and the user experience for MeeGo-based devices. Contributors are attracted to MeeGo because it extends reach beyond just smartphones to also include connected televisions, in-vehicle infotainment systems, netbooks and more.

The MeeGo project, which merges Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo Linux-based platforms, was announced earlier this year at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. An opening (http://meego.com/community/blogs/imad/2010/day-1-here-opening-meego-development) of the MeeGo distribution infrastructure and operating system base was made available last month, and the first release of MeeGo is expected in the second quarter of this year with applications available in both Intel's AppUp Center and Nokia's Ovi Store.

"The MeeGo project is being met with enthusiastic support from companies and developers who want to seize the market opportunity that exists for the next-generation of computing devices," said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. "By working with a common set of tools and open technologies for building these devices, MeeGo developers will be able to easily reach the biggest addressable market available."

As an open source software platform, MeeGo will help to reduce market fragmentation and complexity, while helping to accelerate industry innovation and time-to-market for next-generation devices, Internet-based applications, services and user experiences. MeeGo is designed for cross-device, cross-architecture computing and is built from the ground up for a new class of powerful computing devices.

Intel's Imad Sousou, co-chairman of the MeeGo Technical Steering Committee and Nokia's Ari Jaaksi, vice president of MeeGo Devices, will deliver keynotes at this week's Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit on April 14, 2010. MeeGo project meetings will also take place on days 2 (April 15, 2010) and 3 (April 16, 2010) of the Summit. For more information about the Summit program, please visit: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit/agenda

About the MeeGo Project

The MeeGo project combines Intel's Moblin™ and Nokia's Maemo projects into one Linux-based, open source software platform for the next generation of computing devices. The MeeGo software platform is designed to give developers the broadest range of device segments to target for their applications, including netbooks and entry-level desktops, handheld computing and communications devices, in-vehicle infotainment devices, connected TVs, media phones and more – all using a uniform set of APIs based on Qt. For consumers, MeeGo will offer innovative application experiences that they can take from device to device. The MeeGo project is hosted by the Linux Foundation. For more information on MeeGo, visit www.meego.com.

About the Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by hosting important workgroups, events and online resources such as Linux.com. For more information, please visit www.linuxfoundation.org.

Trademarks: The Linux Foundation and Linux Standard Base are trademarks of The Linux Foundation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. MeeGo is a trademark of the Linux Foundation.

Public Support for MeeGo Project

Acer
"Acer was an enthusiastic adopter of Moblin and we're excited about Moblin's evolution into the MeeGo software platform," said Jim Wong, senior corporate vice president and president of IT Products Global Operations at Acer. "We're looking forward to ecosystem innovation that will be enabled by the open nature of MeeGo."

Amino
"Amino is excited to announce support and adoption of the MeeGo* software platform," said Andrew Burke, CEO of Amino. "We are confident that MeeGo will enable and stimulate development of innovative products in the Consumer Electronics and PC industries."

Asianux
"We are excited to be joining the MeeGo Project", said Liguang Yang, Asianux CEO. "We look forward to utilizing the capabilities of MeeGo to deliver an excellent mobile experience to our customers."

Asus Corp.
"MeeGo is an exciting new software platform and gives customers mobile computing solutions based on Intel® Atom™ processors which offer innovations for the user experience," said S.Y. Shian, vice president and general manager of Notebook Business Unit, Asus Corp. "As the netbook market grows, Asus is continually exploring offerings that optimize this computing experience and address the specific needs of today's netbook customers."

BMW Group
"Open source innovations are necessary to drive the Automotive Industry's transition to the next generation of infotainment systems, helping bridge the gap between consumer electronics and In-Vehicle-Infotainment solutions," said Graham Smethurst – GENIVI Alliance president and general manager, Information and Communications Systems, BMW Group. "The first generation of the GENIVI reference platform is based on Moblin and the transition to MeeGo with its support of multiple architectures will make it more attractive to the industry."

Collabora, Ltd.
"The MeeGo project is great news for app developers," said Robert McQueen, director & co-founder at Collabora Ltd. "The combined strength of Moblin and Maemo makes it easy to develop apps for the platform, and allows application developers to target a broad range of mobile and consumer computing devices across the marketplace."

CS2C
"CS2C has seen great success with Moblin*-based products in netbooks and entry-level desktops in the China Go Rural program that boosts rural development with IT," said Han Naiping, CS2C CEO and president. "CS2C is very pleased to be part of the MeeGo Project."

DeviceVM
"DeviceVM is excited to announce support and adoption of the MeeGo software platform," said Mark Lee, co-founder and CEO of DeviceVM. "MeeGo will enable and stimulate development of innovative products in the Consumer Electronics and PC industries."

EA Mobile
"As the #1 worldwide publisher of mobile games, EA Mobile is excited about MeeGo and how it will help us to more efficiently and economically bring our great games to consumers," said Farshid Almassizadeh, VP Worldwide Operations, EA Mobile.

Gameloft
"Gameloft always looks for platforms that bring the consumers' gaming experience to new heights. With such a wide breadth of supporters involved, we expect MeeGo to help provide the necessary performance level for Gameloft to create games that will blow consumer expectations away," said Michel Guillemot, chairman and CEO, Gameloft.

Hancom
"Hancom is excited about the potential of MeeGo. Hancom is keen to productize with MeeGo 1.0 in Korean language and to work with local ISVs to develop compelling solutions for the Korean market," said Youngick Kim, Hancom CEO.

Linpus
"Linpus is excited to be involved in the MeeGo project," said Rita Jing, vice president of sales at Linpus. "We were involved in the Moblin™ project from very early on, shipping with several of the world's largest OEMs. The combination of the best of the Moblin and Maemo projects to form MeeGo only creates a more powerful, flexible open source community and platform."

Maemo Community Council
"The MeeGo project is a revolutionary open source initiative providing exciting opportunities for new and established developers," said Andrew Flegg, chairman, Maemo Community Council. "MeeGo is the natural evolution of Maemo. The Maemo community, active since Nokia's 2005 introduction of the 770 Internet Tablet, is well positioned to share in the benefits of improved tooling, a wider range of devices and a larger pool of innovative ideas made possible by MeeGo."

Mandriva
"Mandriva is pleased to join the MeeGo project," said Arnaud Laprévote, Mandriva CTO. "The MeeGo Project lowers our software infrastructure cost and allows Mandriva to focus our resources on building value for our customers."

Metasys
"Since the beginning of the Classmate PC project, Metasys and Intel have worked together on the development of an educational solution for the Linux environment, currently used in several countries. Now, Metasys becomes part of the MeeGo project and is aligning its strategy of developing the educational platform for the Classmate PC, formerly based on Moblin. Thus, the company expects to offer an innovative open software operating system for the next generation of computing devices," said Paulo Neuenschwander Maciel, CEO of Metasys.

Miracle
"Miracle is very happy to be joining the MeeGo Project and as a member of Asianux Consortium, we want to contribute an acceleration of MeeGo in Japanese market," said the president and CEO of Miracle, Takashi Kodama. "MeeGo will help allow us to provide exciting, innovative products in the embedded space."

MontaVista Software
"We are excited to be an active participant in the MeeGo community. MeeGo will aid device manufacturers in bringing commercial devices to market quickly and cost effectively," said Dan Cauchy, vice president of Marketing and Business Development, MontaVista Software. "By leveraging the benefits of MeeGo, device manufacturers will be able to deliver innovative solutions for handsets and other consumer-based embedded devices."

Novell
"Our strategic partnership with Intel and The Linux Foundation has already resulted in an innovative SUSE platform that addresses the needs of customers and developers alike," said Guy Lunardi, Director of Client Preloads at Novell. "With MeeGo, Novell will continue to play a leadership role by fully supporting open standards and contributing to the growth of the platform for the desktop."

PixArt
"The strong momentum of MeeGo has allowed PixArt to gain entry into the automotive segment," said Gabriel Marcelo Ortiz, CEO and president of PixArt. "We are joining MeeGo and will participate as part of the MeeGo community."

Red Flag
"Red Flag is very happy to be a part of the MeeGo* Project," said Dong Jia, Red Flag president and CEO. "Red Flag supports MeeGo-based products for netbooks, handhelds and in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) and looks forward to working on the upcoming MeeGo 1.0 release."

ST-Ericsson
"As a strong supporter of open source Linux, we welcome the MeeGo initiative," says Teppo Hemia, Vice President and head of 3G Multimedia Platforms at ST-Ericsson. "ST-Ericsson will strive to provide the best reference design to the developer community, while also contributing to the development of a broad array of innovative new mobile devices."

Tencent
"As a leading service provider in China, with more than one billion registered users, Tencent believes MeeGo is one of the most promising platforms for our cross platform service offerings, and Tencent will make our popular product available upon the launch of MeeGo-based devices to extend our own product and service offering to MeeGo compliant in timely fashion. Developing on MeeGo will enable us to establish a common software framework across multiple devices, ranging from smartphones and tablets to netbooks, it will greatly simplify access to an increasingly mobile and personalized Internet and drive uptake of new and existing applications and services," said Jeff Xiong, Tencent Co-CTO and executive vice president.

TurboLinux
"MeeGo preserves our business model of customization, services and support", said Claude Zhou, General manager of TurboLinux. "TurboLinux will transition our efforts from Moblin to MeeGo."

VietSoftware
"A variety of computing devices are occupying the mind of consumers. For example, the smartphone is becoming the dominant personal device in emerging markets like Vietnam," said Dr. Son, general director of VietSoftware Inc. "As a member of Asianux Consortium, VietSoftware is eager to participate in the MeeGo initiative of Intel and Nokia. We look forward to making our meaningful contribution to this important project."

Wind River
"With Wind River's experience as a leader in a wide variety of open source and mobile platforms, we expect that MeeGo will offer a flexible software platform for delivering innovative computing devices compelling user experiences in multiple device markets," said Chris Buerger, senior director, Product Management of Wind River.

WTEC
"The MeeGo Project is an important development in the mobile industry," said Phiroon Phihakendr, managing director of WTEC Co., Ltd. "We look forward to participating in the MeeGo Project."

Xandros
"The convergence of powerful elements into the MeeGo project hosted by the Linux Foundation will accelerate the future of mobile computing," said Andreas Typaldos, CEO of Xandros. "For us, it means that our touch-enabled PIM can be ported quickly to a broad range of mobile devices. We've been a Qt shop since our founding in 2001 and a Moblin participant from "the beginning of that project, so MeeGo combines and extends the best of both our worlds."

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[Pdexter Posted Apr 13th 2010 12:38PM]

Waiting for that Nokia N1000 running MooreStown!!

[sophocha Posted Apr 13th 2010 2:59PM]

@Pdexter

You don`t have to wait.....I have an N1000 the moment we speak!

N900 @ 1000Mhz back to the future....ehehe

[MaTdg Posted Apr 13th 2010 7:07PM]

@Pdexter A phone with 4-5 hours of batterylife at best and a cooling fan? No thanks :P

[Marcial Posted Apr 13th 2010 11:29PM]

@MaTdg Mine runs entire day (only charge at night when I sleep) and its running cool and swift @ 900Mhz with a bunch of other tweaks that make it extremely fast and responsive.

I surf, call, text, couple of songs, etc.

Using ultra low voltage kernel from titan, it double my batt time from original kernel

[MaTdg Posted Apr 14th 2010 6:01PM]

@Marcial I assume you're talking about an N900? I believe you, but does it run on a moorestown cpu like pdexter wants in his phone? ;)

[ArhcAngel Posted Apr 13th 2010 12:39PM]

First Android on ATOM now this? Has the world gone CRAZY?!

[Lord Vader Posted Apr 13th 2010 12:54PM]

@ArhcAngel. I blame the rap music

[Peter Pan Posted Apr 13th 2010 12:58PM]

@Lord Vader Only gangsta rap. Kanye is a nice dude...

[Lord Vader Posted Apr 13th 2010 1:01PM]

"Imma let chu finish Peter Pan, but Android is the greatest OS of all time, of all time!" I find deep holes with your thinking

[kingstu Posted Apr 13th 2010 12:43PM]

MeeGo has gained critical mass. Time for it to explode everywhere.

[Kangal Posted Apr 13th 2010 9:14PM]

@kingstu
Time to explode ... depends!

Will an Application (eg N64 emulator) built for MeeGo on x86 run natively on a high-powered smartphone/tablet (ARM Cortex A9) without the need for recompiling?

If YES, MeeGo will beat Apple to a pulp as it spreads like cancer.

If NO, how much recompiling?

If LITTLE, MeeGo might still become widespread in a short time
If ALOT, MeeGo's success will be more limited and the project may even fail disastrously.

MeeGO devs people answer this dillema and how it affects end-users

[Munk Posted Apr 13th 2010 9:46PM]

@Kangal Write it in QT :}

[kingstu Posted Apr 13th 2010 11:35PM]

@Kangal
Look at it's partners. It will have EA mobile producing games for it as well as others. Look at all the people joining the bandwagon. It's better than going it alone.

[Kangal Posted Apr 14th 2010 12:23AM]

@kingstu

Qt is the framework. So building Apps on Qt will work on both platforms without the need for recompiling?

I mean java accomplishes this same "cross-compatibility" feat but it doesn't run native so you have deteriorated performance.

It's great that many supporters coff coff EA is jumping in the bandwagon!

[taylorh Posted Apr 14th 2010 3:34AM]

@Kangal That's a very superficial understanding of what needs to happen. Everything will need to be reCOMPILED, because they're different processor architectures. They probably won't have to be reWRITTEN, because they're written with the same frameworks, which are present on both the x86 version and the ARM version

[cookiemawnstah Posted Apr 13th 2010 12:45PM]

Finally we get a new smartphone OS that is free! Wait!

[cookiemawnstah Posted Apr 13th 2010 12:45PM]

@cookiemawnstah still waiting! should have been wait...

[IT expert Posted Apr 15th 2010 7:24AM]

@cookiemawnstah

MEEGO = Free as a bird

This contrasts Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 which will be a locked-up walled-garden where Ballmer must approve all your apps first.

[Darkseider Posted Apr 13th 2010 12:48PM]

With Google behind Android and with Android's established and growing base methinks that MeeGo is going to have a hard time in the handset market.

[Pdexter Posted Apr 13th 2010 12:52PM]

@Darkseider
Thought it's a good to remember that meeGo got by far world largets manufacturer behind them that can still keep one smartphone alone in 40% market share. Plus they got Intel behind them.

N900 being bulky, not advertised at all, not much of features and unknown OS is selling like hotcakes. Just to give example of Nokia's brand power in Europe and Asia.

[Darkseider Posted Apr 13th 2010 1:35PM]

@Pdexter I never said it would be impossible just a very hard mountain to climb. I see Android being the predominant OS in within two years on smartphones throughout much of Europe and North America/South America. MeeGo will remain in that one niche that is really cool, flexible and powerful but not have the popularity or 3rd party dev support necessary for it to really take off.

[biggerd Posted Apr 13th 2010 1:42PM]

@Darkseider

"...throughout much of Europe..." are you crazy? North America, maybe, but the 95% of the world that doesn't speak English as their primary language, it's Android that faces the uphill battle.

[JFH Posted Apr 13th 2010 1:44PM]

@Darkseider

Android will do no such thing. Not even close. Not that its a bad os, but, it wont.

[williamlau05 Posted Apr 13th 2010 1:52PM]

@Darkseider

You are forgetting the world's biggest and most imporant market, China. Don't also forget India, with a billion people for each country you can hardly ignore that fact. MeeGo has an uphill battle, in the US maybe.

[BeeQAL Posted Apr 13th 2010 10:16PM]

@Darkseider

I don't know why you got ranked down so highly as you did make a legitimate point albeit in a fanboyish way.

Aaaannywaaay...I was going to say calm down everybody because as I've said numerous times before now the Smartphone war is only in it's infancy. We are only starting to see the potential long term front runners that will carry the torch into the future with many smaller platforms going the way of the Dodo. Right now, speculatively speaking, it would seem that iPhone OS and Android are in a great position. MS can seriously be resurgent and catch up to Android which isn't far fetched at all because come on, this is MS we're talking about. Heck, it wouldn't be far fetched to see them fighting for the top spot within 5 years IF they don't stumble along the way but it will certainly take a lot of right moves on their part.

Really though, it's too early to predict anything. It's great that Meego exists because we all know competition spurs great innovation but there really are too many players on the field and some have got to get off...SOON.

[franchg Posted Apr 13th 2010 12:48PM]

First screenshots of megoo mobile ux:
http://cdn1.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/meego_handheld_ui_2.jpg
http://cdn1.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/meego_handheld_ui_1.jpg

Looks nice, imo!

[taligent Posted Apr 13th 2010 12:55PM]

@franchg .. looks like Windows Phone 7 but without any of the fun or interesting visual style.

[franchg Posted Apr 13th 2010 1:06PM]

@taligent errr... can I disagree? They look quite different to me.

[kenosando Posted Apr 13th 2010 1:26PM]

@taligent why does everything have to have visual style in comparison? Sure the iPhone is beautiful, but show me one thing the iPhone can do that a N900 can't? Linux-based GUIs aren't meant for visuals, mate.

[JFH Posted Apr 13th 2010 1:46PM]

@kenosando

Really, and I thought the G in GUI related to something Graphical. Which means it needs to be usable visually, and pleasing. I would like to see more effort for Linux bases OS's around GUI. Its the one thing OSX does right.

[incognito Posted Apr 13th 2010 2:13PM]

@franchg, that's not MeeGo, that's Moblin UI... Default MeeGo UI has not yet been defined... And it will most probably look different with different manufacturers - Nokia for one would not agree on such a style...

[microlith Posted Apr 13th 2010 3:09PM]

@kenosando
Be open and not ruled by Apple's iron fist? I'd rather put my efforts and support behind an OS that might need a bit more graphical work but is open, than one that has the GUI down pat but you can't do shit with.

Enjoy re-jailbreaking your phone for the 5th time.

[Goc Posted Apr 13th 2010 5:30PM]

@microlith
Reread what he said, I'm pretty sure he agrees with you.

[saturnblackhole Posted Apr 13th 2010 12:49PM]

though i like meego i'm not a fan of atom processors so i dont see myself buying a cell phone with a atom core.

[taligent Posted Apr 13th 2010 12:52PM]

Big meh from me. This would have been brilliant a year or two ago. But Nokia really doesn't offer anything to me.

iPhone - Easiest to use. Most number of apps.
Android - Full of features. Good number of apps. Lots of variety.
Microsoft - Edgy, quirky and fun to use.
Blackberry - Owns business. Enough said.
Palm - Owns multitasking. Best interface.

What does Meego provide that the others haven't already done and are already 1-2 years ahead in offering ?

[Pdexter Posted Apr 13th 2010 12:55PM]

@taligent
Well maemo already got the best multitasking there is, best browser and we are not even getting to the final product, MeeGo that will have it's phones in the end of this year. Like WM7. Qt 4.6 graphics look amazing.

Plus they got by far world biggest phone manufacturer behind it.

[taligent Posted Apr 13th 2010 1:03PM]

@Pdexter .. Don't know about best multitasking. I prefer WebOS to Nokia. But hey personal taste I guess. As for browser. Nokia is definitely good but the others are hardly bad.

Again it's not that it is bad it's just that it already feels dated compared to what the others are up to.

[dartox Posted Apr 13th 2010 1:21PM]

@taligent: so, palm will not exist for a long time anymore, so you could replace palm with meego in your list... voilà!

[WickedEast Posted Apr 13th 2010 1:35PM]

@taligent

Well, a lot of what you said is your own personal taste, from a consumer point of view.

But this news is about the architecture and the framework, which is of interest for developers.

I don't see what so "dated" about it. And considering that we have practically seen nothing that ressembles an end-product with MeeGo, claiming that it "doesn't offer anything to me" is baseless.

[Robbie Hottie Posted Apr 13th 2010 7:58PM]

@taligent

are you kidding me? maemo has the best multitasking ever. way better than cards! you see a live thumnail of every window, all on the screen at once! i dont have to flick 8 cards to the left to see what is on one window, then flick back over to see another.

i actually like the multitasking feature better than anything else about the n900. i really hope meego doesnt change the way multitasking works. i leave it on that screen more than any other screen. i usually have my speedometer, maps, clock, conversations, media player, and phone apps all running at the same time on the dashboard ("multitasking view"). i dont know any other phone that can do that.

and as far as apps, maemo/meego dont really need all those thousands of them because the devices have the best browsers that can access the real websites directly. while everyone needs to download their crappy pandora apps on their iphones and droids, i can go straight to pandora.com and the real website loads right up and works great for me. i have yet to have a single friend who can pull up pandora.com on their phone like i can. even tv.com/shows works for me! full cooliris support and everything!

why am i talking about websites when discussing apps? because it seems to me that a large number of iphone and android apps are either just dumbed down versions of whats available on web pages or even actually web pages formatted for the phones that are made to looks like apps.

and dont forget the fact that you can just repackage many linux apps to run them on maemo. so before the phone was even out, it was theoretically compatible with thousands of desktop apps.

so you are obviously either biased, closed minded, or have never used maemo/meego and are somehow basing an opinion on it without touching it.

"Microsoft - Edgy, quirky and fun to use." GIVE ME A FREAKIN BREAK!

I would say this would be more accurate:

iPhone OSX: Easiest to use. Most number of apps. Low software flexibility. No multitasking at the moment. Great browser.
Android OS: Easy to use. Good number of apps. Good hardware variety. Good flexibility. Ok multitasking. Good browser.
Microsoft 6.x: Dated, but most functional. Close GUI to Win PC. Excellent app support. Ok multitasking. OK browser.
*Microsoft WP7: Very Basic, Limited, Fresh/Clean look, Quickest access to most used phone features.
*Microsoft Kin: Very Basic, Most Limited, Zune/Blur look, Quickest access to media and networking. No app support.
Blackberry OS: Best preloaded email offering. Fair app support.
Palm WebOS: Best interface. Fun to use. Some learning curve but easy over time. Fair app support. Good multitasking.
Nokia Symbian: Ok interface, Dated, Excellent app support, Best hardware variety, Great flexibility.
Nokia Meego: Ok interface, Newest, Low app availability, Most flexibility, Best Multitasking, Best Browser support.

I dont know about you, taligent, but I can say that I have actually used every OS i listed that is currently out. (obviously i havent used the two with asterisks since they arent out yet). yes there is some mixture of fact and opinion in my list based on my usage, but i can probably get more support behind my descriptions of each OS than you could. and how can you make an OS list and not even mention symbian, which is the most used mobile os in the world???

[Abhi9 Posted Apr 14th 2010 2:20AM]

@Robbie Hottie Nice list, pretty much sums it all.
There is a new Nokia Meego device due this year, let's see if it gets them some mindshare in the US. They need to work more closely with the carriers. Give people a choice between unlocked devices and contracts.

Speaking of Symbian, they might prefer to focus on that outside the US, and probably get some low cost devices in the US. As a platform, I think it is great. It has been working pretty well on even the low CPU devices. They are fixing the touch interaction and the eye-candy with Symbian^3 and Symbian^4. The changes might not be revolutionary but they never needed them. The UI will be at par with the other OS's and if they throw some nice processors under the hood, they might have a winner (at least in Europe and Asia).

The screenshots have nothing extraordinary, but look kinda cool. with rumors of Nokia coming back to the tablet market, it seems to be an obvious choice for them to use Meego, with Intel's silicon. Things are getting interesting.

[stp Posted Apr 14th 2010 2:26AM]

@Robbie Hottie

How is RIM's preloaded e-mail offering any better than what comes with, for example, Nokia E72 or probably with this new E5?

[JFH Posted Apr 14th 2010 5:33AM]

@stp

BB is not better actually, like the new Nokia Messaging better. But, you have to say something nice about BB, they sell some phones. :)

[NitOxYs Posted Apr 13th 2010 12:53PM]

So you mean, they just pretty much copied WebOS?

[JFH Posted Apr 13th 2010 1:50PM]

@NitOxYs

So, we mean, no. idiot.

[incognito Posted Apr 13th 2010 2:16PM]

@NitOxYs, no, we mean webOS copied pretty much all the goodies from Maemo, father of MeeGo...

[Rev Posted Apr 13th 2010 1:05PM]

I think MeeGo is going to be big.

Maemo on N900 just screams of unleashed potential. Hopefully MeeGo will release it and not kill it.

[ToniCipriani Posted Apr 13th 2010 1:06PM]

Mozilla+Flash =/= Fennec.

Maemo came with MicroB, it's Mozilla based with Flash but it's not Fennec.

[thejan2009 Posted Apr 13th 2010 1:14PM]

@ToniCipriani true..

[jacobian64 Posted Apr 13th 2010 1:22PM]

well it's look like a nice OS.can't wait to try it out then. :-)