Finally, MeeGo Conference 2010, the event to reveal some of mysteries behind MeeGo and running it on N900.

Actually the main reason for running MeeGo on N900 is possibility to develop the platform, port it to ARM architecture and subsequently develop applications. Setting up working MeeGo on N900 takes quite some people, apart from management (it’s so obvious ) the people to maintain every single part of the system (multimedia, wireless modem, etc.) and finally integration and packaging. All of this people are working all around the world to make MeeGo alive on N900.

As we know major MeeGo releases occured during May (MeeGo Core 1.0) and October (UX for N900). Currently MeeGo 1.1 hardware adaptation is mostly working, you can call and receive calls, text message, connect via WLAN, use browser or multimedia playback. But the most vital part for this image is running applications directly from SDK.

Installing MeeGo on N900 takes around 585MB download and at least 2GB microSD card, unfortunately it’s still working at your own risk. UI seems to be working pretty nicely, with automatic rotation (that’s new from Maemo 5 point of view), standard applications, working phone UI, but that’s something we’ve already seen.

The future of MeeGo on N900 is mostly related to future plans for the platform, which mainly means making reference implementation for OMAP3 handsets. N900 can be good hardware base for demos, which on the other hand implicates that someone wants to show us MeeGo based phone, but nothing new, so we need a bit more time to see the N900 successor
And finally, question that we want to know answer to, we know all of the stuff about development images, but what with end users? Currently end users would probably be supported by community, not by Nokia internally. Luckily we have at least this.

If you have any questions I can try to ask directly, just post in comments, so ’till the next post from the MeeGo Conference 2010.