Posts Tagged ‘MeeGo’

Samsung Shows off Tizen Device

May 8th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Tizen | No Comments »

Following the recent release of the Tizen SDK’s, Samsung has now started to show off the first hardware running the new Tizen operating system. Tizen is based on Linux and originated from MeeGo (Intel and Nokia) and Bada (Samsung).

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Intel and Samsung Present Tizen 1.0

May 3rd, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Tizen | No Comments »

Intel and Samsung have launched version 1.0 of the new Tizen operating system for smartphones. Tizen is a combination of MeeGo (once developed by Intel and Nokia) and Bada OS from Samsung. The whole system is based on the Linux kernel. Developers can start downloading the Tizen SDK’s, but have to realize there isn’t any Tizen hardware… yet.

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Intel Drops MeeGo for Tizen

September 28th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Linux, Platforms: MeeGo, Platforms: Tizen | No Comments »

Following partner Nokia, Intel has now announced it is to abandon the MeeGo platform as well. Instead, it will be working on a new mobile platform with Samsung that’s called Tizen.

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Nokia Competitors Line Up for MeeGo

April 17th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: MeeGo, Platforms: QT | No Comments »

Though Nokia is scaling down on both MeeGo and Symbian until it starts shipping the first Windows Phone 7 devices, competitors seem very interested in having MeeGo on their devices.

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Nokia: No QT on Windows Phone 7

February 11th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: QT | No Comments »

Though Nokia always said QT is their way to bridge development on their mobile platforms, Nokia now confirms the deal with Microsoft will not involve that bit of technology.

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MeeGo Drops Netbook Support

February 9th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: MeeGo | No Comments »

The MeeGo Project has moved MeeGo Netbook UX into maintenance mode. This means the netbook OS will only receive updates for important bugfixes.

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AMD Joins MeeGo

November 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: MeeGo | No Comments »

It seems MeeGo is getting support from an unexpected side. Intel’s competitor AMD has announced it will help develop the mobile operating system, probably to help selling its new line of APU’s.

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MeeGo 1.1 Ready for Developers

November 1st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: MeeGo | No Comments »

Nokia and Intel have set loose MeeGo 1.1 for the development community. Nokia does warn consumers not to install it as MeeGo 1.1 is still a work-in-progress operating system.

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MeeGo to Go 3D

August 25th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: MeeGo | No Comments »

Nintendo is not the only vendor planning a mass market autostereoscopic device. As it turns out, MeeGo, the JV of Intel and Nokia, is also planning its move into 3D.

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GDC: Intel to Launch App Store for MeeGo and Netbooks

August 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: MeeGo | No Comments »

During the keynote session “Building Games for Netbooks”, Intel developer Leigh Davies shed some more light on the upcoming app store Intel is currently testing in Beta for the MeeGo and Atom based netbooks.

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