Intel shows off Meego Mobile OS2010-04-15 10:26 by DanielaTags: Intel, Nokia, Meego
Chipmaker and software house Intel has shown off its incarnation of Meego 1.0 at the Intel Developer Forum held in Beijing. The mobile operating system is a collaboration between Nokia and Intel that was first announced at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The two firms combined Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo to form the open source, Linux based Meego. The devices on show at IDF cover a number of markets and show off the capabilities of Meego to provide streamlined interoperation between devices loaded with the operating system. Meego isn't limited to Intel processors, however one of the videos showed the operating system running on an Acer netbook based on Intel's 'Pine Trail' Atom chip. The user interface, which is likely to be different from Nokia's implementation, does a pretty good job of showing a slick tabbed interface to handle fairly basic Internet oriented tasks. That demonstration also showed a relatively basic 3D game loading, however no real gameplay footage was shown. Switching between the game and the landing screen, it was clearly visible that multi-tasking capabilities are enabled, with the game paused in the background while the demonstrator was showing off how various social notworking accounts can be aggregated into a single tab. Although switching between applications and tabs was swift, it should be remembered that the netbook has a 1.6GHz Atom processor and Meego will also have to run on much smaller devices, with processors that are a great deal more thrifty when it comes to power consumption than the Atom. So Intel obliged. Read more -here-
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