MeeGo , the unified mobile platform of Intel Moblin and Nokia Maemo, attracted attention of an imposing number of new industry players: from equipment vendors and suppliers of games to software developers and providers of embedded solutions.

In general, it is not clear yet whether MeeGo should be positioned as a competitor of Google Android or other OS, but it makes sense to simply accept this system as one of the alternatives for strengthening the market presence of project participants.

The nonprofit Linux Foundation, which oversees the project, has announced the following list of companies which are going to join MeeGo: Acer, Amino, Asianux, ASUS, BMW Group, Collabora, 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.

Reminder: MeeGo, which was announced MWC 2010 Event in February, is intended for working on a wide range of devices, including smartphones, tablets, netbooks, TV sets, automotive systems and so on. It will allow to create applications that will work on several types of devices without simultaneous adaptation. Nokia Ovi Store will be the store to introduce MeeGo-applications. The new platform will co-exist together with Symbian, but it is made for installation in more expensive gadgets, such as Nokia N900.

One of the most anticipated events during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona became the announcement and release of the MeeGo platform operating system. Nokia and Intel combined its Maemo and Moblin products into a single unit and developed a new platform that will manage multimedia phones, netbooks, PDAs, automobile computers and connection to the Internet from home TVs. It is expected that the new operating system will first appear on Nokia N900 mobile, which will go on sale in the second half of 2010.
At the same time developers, while creating applications, will use the Qt environment. This will allow anyone make his own programs for several types of devices. This software is distributed via Ovi Store and Intel AppUpSM Center.

MeeGo will complement usual talks with video calls. In addition, it will have entertainment services, as well as access to the Internet. This will allow manufacturers produce the next generation of models that can play and burn photos, videos and sounds of a very high quality. MeeGo graphic system can handle video-conference with high quality pictures and sound, as well as use the phone for other trivial needs.
The smartphones using MeeGo will have access to the Internet at high speed, show movies of high (HD) quality and perform multiple tasks simultaneously. These devices, according to marketers, will be in demand in the near future.
MeeGo compact operating system for netbooks loads very quickly and works reliably. It is based on Linux technology that allows each user to customize the gadget himself and actively pursue all opportunities of installed applications.
Automobile on-board computers based on MeeGo support all navigation applications, and the car becomes a full-fledged Internet access point, and the driver can, without detracting from the management, use any desired network application – whether the travel information or recording favorite music.

Nokia N900 is the newest mobile computer from Nokia and has a based- on platform with an open source Maemo 5. The device can be purchased in the Nokia brand shops and stores. “Since the official announcement in August of the current year, Nokia N900 has drawn much interest, as it is evident by the large volumes of pre-orders of the device, – said Jose Luis Martinez ,Vice-President of Nseries Nokia. The software Maemo was of particular interest, which was originally designed for the desktops of computers and provides a full work on the Internet, which has not yet succeeded in any pocket device. Nokia N900 fans enjoy high-tech solutions. ”
There are many” technological leaders” of advanced users in the world, who are interested in and watch the technological innovations and cutting-edge solutions. Therefore, there are several selected countries where the Nokia N900 would be sold. They show a remarkable interest to this product, that’s the first mobile computer based on the Nokia Maemo 5 having great anticipations both for this category as a whole, and for the OS Maemo. It should be also noted that many experts in R & D Nokia and third-party developers were participated for the development of Nokia N900.

The powerful ARM-Cortex-A8 processor is considered the principle for Nokia N900 and the memory to run 1 GB applications. Browsing through the web with Nokia N900 can be as comfortable as on any other computer, in addition, the device has to offer many multi-tasking options, by allowing to run more than a dozen applications simultaneously. Panoramic desks in Nokia N900 can be fully personalized with the widgets, contacts and labels. In photographs and videos taken with a 5-megapixel camera with optics from Carl Zeiss, information about the location of the picture is automatically added, as well as the users can add their own tags, which further may simplify the search for photos. SMS-text messages and instant messages are structured in the form of chat sessions, where it can be safely switched between multiple windows of open dialogues with various interlocutors. Internal memory capacity of 32 GB is considered as enough storage for up to 7 000 songs or 40 hours of video at DVD-quality, memory is expandable to 48 GB with the help of external memory microSD cards.
Nokia is working closely with the community of the developers and has recently announced important decisions related to Maemo. As a result, users of Nokia N900 will have access to a wide range of games, utilities, themes, background images, and services to post photos and instant messages, which all these can be found in stores and via the Ovi service of Maemo Select, that would appear near the end of the current year. Nokia announced the official support of Maemo 5 Qt in October. That is, the developers using software Qt, will be able to create applications for the Nokia N900 and will be able to move these applications on all platforms supported by Qt smoothly, including the next version of the Maemo platform 6 and Symbian.

The Nokia Company introduced a new version of Qt 4.6 which is a cross-platform tool for software development. The toolkit provides a support for the Symbian platform and Maemo, as well as to some others, by enhancing the functionality of graphical tools and supporting new technologies for entry data by the multi-touch and by using gestures. The developers and the leading companies of the IT-market version of Qt 4.6 Nokia in Russia, represent the III Mobile Software Forum as an industrial significant event which took place in December 10-11 in St. Petersburg. The forum brought together the largest manufacturers of mobile communication devices, platforms, programming for mobile devices, content providers, investors and software developers. Nokia is actively participating in the Forum of December 10, which is a special event day- “ Day of the Developer of Nokia “, where technical seminars and presentations of new solutions and applications are held.
The support of the Qt platforms Symbian and Maemo allows the developers to create applications for both platforms, using a single code base, and, therefore, offer their solutions to a wider audience on more devices. Porting code between platforms will accelerate the process of developing applications prior to their publication. Thus, developers can create sophisticated applications and more effectively disseminate them through the Ovi store, which was launched in Russia this year in May.

“We expect to bring our relations with Russian developers to a new level, making the process of building applications even easier, – said Kirill Zelenski, the manager of the business development in the region of Eurasia from the Nokia forum. Currently over 350 Russian companies and individual developers are already working with Nokia and we are confident enough that this number will grow gradually.
More platforms
New version of Qt 4.6 supports the platforms of Symbian, Windows 7, Apple Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard), as well as of the expected Maemo 6. Community developers will be given the full support while working with the real time operating system QNX and VxWorks.
Updated tools
By the release of the new version of Qt 4.6 followed the updated Qt Creator of the cross-platform IDE for the development under the Qt. The programs of the Qt Creator 1.3 and Qt 4.6 include a single installation package of Qt SDK, which contains all the necessary tools for the creation of the cross-platform applications.