Yesterday, the MeeGo Project officially started its “Day 1″ launch, making the baseline source code available to developers.
October should see the release of MeeGo 1.1, on Nokia smartphones.
Furthermore, the MeeGo UI team has said they are actively creating the “handset reference user experience.”
Day 1 marks the final merger of Moblin and Maemo, a joint effort by Intel and Nokia.
The MeeGo Project Handset Day 1 includes:
MeeGo APIs, incorporating Qt and MeeGo Touch UI Framework (MTF)
Subset of the handset reference UI and applications
Status Bar: clock, network, Bluetooth, 3G connection, notifications, and battery charge
Home Screen
Lock Screen
Application Launcher
Virtual Keyboard
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In a surprising announcement today, Bsquare has said they will be porting Flash Lite 3 to Android phones by the “late Q3,” eliminating the need for users to wait for the official Flash 10 port which still does not have a release date.
Bsquare vice president of global sales Larry Stapleton added that the browser plug-in should be available for current Android phone owners as well.
“Our intent is to try to get these guys to market faster by using this base port,” Stapleton added.
Flash Lite 3 can render Flash Player 8 files meaning files that require 9 or 10 will not work on the handsets. However, Stapleton says “a large subset of what’s on the Web today will render in a pleasing way for the end consumer.”
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During his speech at the “D6: All Things Digital conference”, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has been quoted as saying that his company has been working on a pay-per-view streaming service and that the new option should be launching within the next few weeks.
The service is “meant for a subset of people willing to pay to view sans ads.” It is also clear that the service will be in addition to the to the digital downloads offered by Amazon Unbox.
Bezos also added that his company is not trying take down the market leader iTunes but that “sensible owners want alternatives” and with that statement he is very correct.
It should be interesting to see how well this service works and we will keep you updated.
