First screenshots of MeeGo mobile UX!

[franchg]

Here they are:
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/8408/meegohandheldui3.jpg
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/5972/meegohandheldui2.jpg
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8537/meegohandheldui1.jpg

More about MeeGo at IDF here:
http://carrypad.com/2010/04/13/meego-at-idf-netbook-and-handheld-eye-candy-chrome-fennec-and-lots-of-developer-details/

Looks nice, imo!

[ankurs]

Not bad, but not much of eyecandy yet; but hopefully should get better when it comes out for consumers.

[casper27]

Looks nice.
2 things I noticed
Potrait mode as standard
No hardware keyboard.

Hope they manage to sort Fennec out before release could bite them in the bum if it not even upto MicroB standard on release.

[sevla]

I prefer this color scheme/font to Maemo's.

It looks good visually and is finally comparable to other OS's on the market. What even better is all the feature and functionality that will be supported.

[maluka]

I like it but I hope Nokia doesn't leak too much UI info about their upcoming phones months before it's released. I would prefer to have my mind blown on launch day.

[tissot]

I like it but I hope Nokia doesn't leak too much UI info about their upcoming phones months before it's released. I would prefer to have my mind blown on launch day.

Funny that you ask that ;) Here's one pic that i didn't think too much about 7-8 months ago when they where leaked, but it looks exactly like the Qt4.6/harmattan demo we got to test with N900 some months ago.
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb95/tissotti/maemo1.jpg

[cjp]

Looks pretty nice to me. Can't wait!

I hope they have tonnes of people working on MeeGo, making it a really finalised product with nothing having to be (too) rushed or "left for community development". :)

[wazd]

I'm seing non-wvga resolution (more n97 like) and lots of senseless info. I'm working on a short 2m video bout my vision of MeeGo UI. Some tiny part of it for example:
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/1760/source2.png
I hope to release it before major MeeGo announcement just to compare my work with whole maemo/meego design unit results.

[wmarone]

Funny that you ask that ;) Here's one pic that i didn't think too much about 7-8 months ago when they where leaked, but it looks exactly like the Qt4.6/harmattan demo we got to test with N900 some months.
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb95/tissotti/maemo1.jpg

Looks slick, but exceedingly busy. I don't think that would fly unless it was the result of an end-user going config-crazy :)

[theflew]

I like it but I hope Nokia doesn't leak too much UI info about their upcoming phones months before it's released. I would prefer to have my mind blown on launch day.

Don't forget this is MeeGo's default mobile UX, not necessarily Nokia's MeeGo UX. Each hardware manufacture can build their own UX just like Android. That's always Nokia's message about the N900 and MeeGo. Will MeeGo run on the N900 - yes. Will Nokia have an polished MeeGo UX for N900 - ?. At least we might have a nice looking base MeeGo UX based on the screen shots.

[Bundyo]

Hmm, the netbook desktop already looks different in the trunk, so this are probably current screenshots and subjects to change.

[jackie_jagger]

Awesome Awesome AWESOMEEEEE!!!!!! Totally awesome !! Thanks a bunch for the heads up ...I'd say I like this over Symbian^3/^4 and Maemo ...its more or less like Maemo on N900 but ...with a little more eye candy !! Plus these are the first few shots ...expect more improvements...

Lastly ...Please please please nokia....get this on the N900 :)

Cheers

[antoarts]

Which button is the dashboard button, the rounded square with an arrow?

[Rauha]

Screenshot of first Meego netbook UX for comparison from Slashgear. Same dark theme and icons.

http://cdn1.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/meego_netbook_ui_1-540x324.jpg

[NvyUs]

are they harmattan screen shots or are they what i like to call real MeeGo?

[Fredook]

This version of Meego work or not in the n900???

[konttori]

Screenshot of first Meego netbook UX for comparison from Slashgear. Same dark theme and icons.

http://cdn1.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/meego_netbook_ui_1-540x324.jpg

Do notice that it looks exactly like moblin.

[tissot]

are they harmattan screen shots or are they what i like to call real MeeGo?

As far as i understand those first pics are MeeGo/moblin UI for the first MeeGo.
My guess is that Harmattan/MeeGo will look very close to what pictures i showed on the previous page.

Hopefully somebody who really knows what his talking can confirm ;)

[inkjected]

It said that mobile version of MeeGo will support voice and SMS, but doesn't mention MMS. So does that mean that we will have to rely on the community to bring MMS to the MeeGo platform?

[pyromaniac]

looks nice :) .. lets hope we dont have to wait tooo long ..

[Rauha]

Meego roadmap from same Intel Developer Forum meeting as all screenshots in the thread.

http://carrypad.com/files/2010/04/meegotimescales.jpg

[dmj726]

What about the task manager? Will that be the same sort of awesome dashboard? I haven't seen that shown here.

[jackie_jagger]

the roadmap seems promising, I'm waiting for 1.0 :)

[ravioli156]

Do notice that it looks exactly like moblin.

Do notice that MeeGo is in fact a sort of Moblin renamed, with Qt added and the support of ARM (all the tools for compiling and using it are based on moblin tools, the structure is the same)
The more I follow the developper mailing list of MeeGo, the less I want to have it on my phone, when I see how the intel developers don't care about opinions of users, and the poor choices they made.

[Rauha]

What about the task manager?
They'll propably just copy that from S60. Last week it officially became the most advanced way to do it.

:D

[jackie_jagger]

They'll propably just copy that from S60. Last week it officially became the most advanced way to do it.

:D

You mean Apple's "revolutionary" "NEW" multitasking which was suprisingly found on Symbian earlier and the way it handles is found on Androids -.- !!

[sevla]

From what I've read Meego is probably 80% Moblin and 20% Meego.

A gross over simplification but my guess is that it's pretty accurate

Only the telefony stack and some other components from Maemo made it into Meego.

And of course Harmattan is just the UX overlay for Meego.

I'm really excited about the Meego push as a whole.. Application developers will have devices ranging from handsets to tv's to in car dash components. This has never been done before on this type of scale.

Ironically Meego seems to be the anti-thesis to Iphone OS.

[antoarts]

From what I've read Meego is probably 80% Moblin and 20% Meego.

A gross over simplification but my guess is that it's pretty accurate

Only the telefony stack and some other components from Maemo made it into Meego.

And of course Harmattan is just the UX overlay for Meego.
You mean not the dashboard, the status bar, the desktop etc...? Will they be replaced with something else? What a piece of sh*t...

[roger_27]

this is great news. maybe this positive thread can finally kill the "Speculation about PR 1.2 and it's release date" thread.

[sevla]

You mean not the dashboard, the status bar, the desktop etc...? Will they be replaced with something else? What a piece of sh*t...

I didn't test the Harmattan widgets that were released so I can't comment on them. When I refer to Meego I'm referring to the base code that will be used across all devices using the Meego platform. Obviously the dashboard, status bar, that you see on the N900 or the next Nokia Meego phone won't be what you'll see on say a Samsung Meego phone.

[jackie_jagger]

these are still referential UI....just simulated or designed to show the proposed UI !! So I'm expecting some more massive awesome changes *crossed fingers*

[Rauha]

these are still referential UI....just simulated or designed to show the proposed UI !! So I'm expecting some more massive awesome changes *crossed fingers*

These could be very close to what shows up in 1.0, but propably still pretty far from what things will look like in the first actual Meego products.

[johnel]

This looks really promising and what the n900 should have been.

It really depends on how Nokia develop thier implementation.

[ezjd]

Do notice that MeeGo is in fact a sort of Moblin renamed, with Qt added and the support of ARM (all the tools for compiling and using it are based on moblin tools, the structure is the same)
The more I follow the developper mailing list of MeeGo, the less I want to have it on my phone, when I see how the intel developers don't care about opinions of users, and the poor choices they made.

I basically agree with you.
"Meego = Moblin + best of Maemo" from slides does say that it is Moblin NG. Seems to me that MeeGo added Qt and telephony stuff from Maemo but Maemo doesn't really have Qt yet (I mean a working Maemo :))
Probably we should spend some time to compare MeeGo and Maemo in the future.

To be fair, Moblin and Maemo share a lot pkgs, so that I can't really say it is Moblin NG:D

I was thinking that 2 strong companies with Linux Fundation behind gave it a balanced-power over the project, is it still true? I hope MeeGo won't be just another Android.
I am still waiting for the truely opened MeeGo development to see how things goes and kinda reluctant to trust feelings ...

[Bec]

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/8408/meegohandheldui3.jpg
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/5972/meegohandheldui2.jpg
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8537/meegohandheldui1.jpg



I don't like this one bit to be honest. It looks dry and crowded, much like some windows 7 screens from last week.

IMHO N900 looks much prettier than this,
why so many buttons?
and why so square?

I'd rather have rounded edges and a dropdown menu.

The other screens (the ones not quoted) look nice but a little busy as well.


I wish they'd communicate more with us and maybe post polls like the community design (http://blog.gsmarena.com/design-by-community-week-5-connectivity-wired-vs-wire-free/) instead of just hurling screenshots around...

They're building this device for us, not for themselves and they should rely more on this community instead of silly market studies.

I begin to mistrust this Intel alliance because of the ui and because of the new CPUs (ARM/X86? power efficiency???)

[sevla]

Your looking at the reference Meego UI, not Harmattan.

I wouldn't worry just as yet.

[bxbomber]

i actually like these screenshots, just hope that we get a kickass phone to go with this os. btw is just me or does the 4th pick from the row look like turd in the toilet lol

[NvyUs]

I like the screenshots looks flashy and refreshing they will need to educate ppl or put some text under the icons if they keep that many options on screen as it will be hard to know what they all mean.
A theme for N900 based on them screenshots would be awesome, i would even pay for such theme

[UNderworld]

looks ok. better thn maemo5

[ZShakespeare]

I like the look, it's clean and informative. In the interest of full disclosure I've always had a thing for solid colors and square edges. The style in windows XP and Vista annoyed me for this reason. What I really want is the portrait mode keyboard, which it is logical to assume MeeGo will have. No more putting my stuff down to send a reply off.

[Andy214]

Looks nice.
2 things I noticed
Potrait mode as standard
No hardware keyboard.

Hope they manage to sort Fennec out before release could bite them in the bum if it not even upto MicroB standard on release.

I feel...
It doesn't have the Maemo feel. Like totally a different OS. Feels like WinMo or Android?

Maemo looks and feel totally different from those norm smartphone OS, which have the pretty standard/similar outlook. Maemo feels more like a laptop at the size of a mobile phone.

I don't know, but looking at those initial screen of MeeGo... it doesn't feel like Home, it feels like Android or WinMo in certain way. Hmmm.....

Perhaps should look at more screens or real thing first...

[joshua.maverick]

Meego looks 1000x better than maemo5. Hopefully we get a port asap.

[joshua.maverick]

I feel...
It doesn't have the Maemo feel. Like totally a different OS. Feels like WinMo or Android?

Maemo looks and feel totally different from those norm smartphone OS, which have the pretty standard/similar outlook. Maemo feels more like a laptop at the size of a mobile phone.

I don't know, but looking at those initial screen of MeeGo... it doesn't feel like Home, it feels like Android or WinMo in certain way. Hmmm.....

Perhaps should look at more screens or real thing first...

That god it doesn't have the maemo feel. Maemo ui is terrible, embarassingly ugly.

[lfcobra]

Here they are:
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/8408/meegohandheldui3.jpg
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8537/meegohandheldui1.jpg


I couldnt figure out why i didnt like it at first... and then I realized it was because it reminded me of the HTC Touchflo interface.

http://img22.imageshack.us/i/xperiacopy.png/

Not exactly alike but it uses the same sort of navigation bar.

[Shady 91']

i don't like tha interfzce of meego!!!

maemo 5 is the best!

meego seems iphone interface bleah

[SAABoy]

You know whats funny?

I can't relate AT ALL to the portrait mode...

I am now a victim of Stockholm Syndrome, I am the hostage to my n900...

p.s. muse...

[kennibal]

Guys, I think these are just preliminary images of the upcoming MeeGo.

It may look dull as the first N97 theme (Nseries 2) dull black, but after a firmware update, Nseries 2 became a sleek black theme. Nokia may put their Nokia icons on top of this MeeGo interface just like what they did with Maemo 5.

Let's wait and see what will be the key features of this MeeGo OS, aside from its initial UI design.

[Bec]

I agree about windows xp and vista, that's why my xp still looks like 98 :p

But I symbian and maemo spoiled me and I got used to rounded edges and flashy UIs :|

[tissot]

When we might see Nokia's, Harmattan UI? I would hope they would have annoucement before releasing phones with it.

[beli]

Well, some like the screenshots, others don't. Now this is the greatest thing about our phone in comparison with all the other devices around: we will be able to choose the UI we run!

Looking forward to the v1.0 release :-)

[geneven]

Why does some Chinese site have the first screenshots (and advanced overclocking, too!) Does this imply a professional tie with Meego?

[johnel]

I'll just put on my flame-proof suit and say

"Does MeeGo support Landscape mode?".

[lwa]

Are these from the LG GW990? It would explain the strangely wide aspect ratio....

If they are from the LG GW900, its the first Meego phone, however my understanding is that its technically Moblin 2.1 MID edition which existed long before the merger, branded as Meego for marketing?

Hope so... If that actually is the complete Meego UX and Nokia does decide to use a large potion of it, I will never have to worry about checking "will the n900 run meego" threads again :D

I personally think Maemo5 user experiance is nearly perfect anyhow (some menus and dialog boxes could be improved,but the desktop and dashboard are as close to perfect as I have seen in a small device) The only thing I am excited about is the arrival of more applications through qt4.6...

[Andy214]

That god it doesn't have the maemo feel. Maemo ui is terrible, embarassingly ugly.

No it ain't. Most people find it nice and stunning. You may find it ugly, but it is personal preference.
Maemo UI is one of the kind, the Desktop concept is totally different from other handphone "homescreen". Maemo Desktop allow full customization and arrangement of icons/widgets and depends on each person creativity, it can look crazy nice. You can't do that on other smartphone which homescreen have limited customization, and requires theme to look nice.

Most reviews are amazed by Maemo UI and concept; If you're not then maybe it's your preference. It's more like a computer with Desktop screen. The buttons, progress bars all are very multimedia rich look like Flash, unlike those smartphones, and Maemo have transparency settings as well. The Media Player "homescreen" have nice icons with glowing shadow; makes it looks futuristic and makes others look outdated.
The Calendar Month view look superb, look at others, they look plain and simple.
There's many more to put, but if it isn't your taste, then it's no point to carry on.

One reason I'm attracted to N900 is the Maemo UI. Every phone out there looks the same design, UI, just depend on the theme. But Maemo is like totally different from them. Besides, those that never seen Maemo UI, when I first unlock my phone, they'll be like "WOW!" when they see the Desktop. When you show them the customization on the Desktop, it's another "WOW!".

[johnel]

I like the maemo ui because it doesn't "get in the way".

Some GUIs almost "scream" and say "look how shiney and clever I am".

[Bec]

I like the maemo UI too.

Perhaps for those who don't, you should try something new and refreshing:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=46568

The screenshots don't really reflect the good looks this theme can provide;)

[evil_m0nkey]

the one thing I didn't like about maemo, and currently meego is the affiliation with dead black and grey.

maemo had some color thanks to yellow notifications but all the bars were black in color. and when you look at the no.s stored in contacts, its soooooo tiny.
the call screenshot shows the same, tiny no.

[tissot]

Thought shouldn't we be talking about Harmattan/MeeGo? Rather than this Moblin/MeeGo because as far as i have understood these two don't share anything with UI.
http://achipa.blogspot.com/2010/03/harmattan-last-of-maemos-or-first-of.html

[NvyUs]

Why does some Chinese site have the first screenshots (and advanced overclocking, too!) Does this imply a professional tie with Meego?

the screenshots are from intel developer forum being held in china yesterday and today.

[qgil]

Brief guide to "MeeGo screenshots" in general:

- The only MeeGo real screenshots are the ones coming from a real MeeGo release. Take the rest as potential previews, concepts, proposals...

- MeeGo screenshots can refer to one or many UX categories. Nobody is trying to squeeze the Netbook UX in a handset etc.

- MeeGo screenshots can refer to the system UI or applications. Then vendors can ship their devices with those apps or another, with that same system UX or a different one (changing the theme or bringing deeper changes).

- MeeGo screenshots might show the UI of a specific release, but of course the UIs can and probably will evolve between releases.

- MeeGo is themable. Colors, icons, fonts are the most volatile aspects in MeeGo screenshots since this is most probably the first thing a vendor will customize, and even yourselves as users.

- MeeGo is by definition device neutral. Don't make big conclusions about the sizes and proportions of MeeGo screenshots since vendors have the freedom to design products with different display resolutions.

Now speaking for Nokia as a MeeGo vendor, and with Harmattan in mind:

- Nokia is leading the development of the UI framework providing the Handset UX. The same enablers (the same DNA, if you wish) are expected in the official MeeGo releases and the Nokia handsets based on MeeGo.

- Nokia is working on a user experience for handsets based on MeeGo that Nokia users recognize as distinctively from Nokia. For instance, most official applications in Nokia devices based on MeeGo will be different than the reference apps provided by the MeeGo project.

And answering the question about landscape/portrait support, the MeeGo project hasn't published a roadmap with that information yet but Nokia devices based on MeeGo will come with full landscape and portrait support. This was already announced in the Maemo Summit last year and we are keepind that plan.

[md92h]

most interesting thing about maemo UI is it looks like a PC UI and when you start working with it, you realize it has so much to offer that no smartphone OS has ever offered. i realy like maemo's UI sepecially menu bar (or the taskbar as i call it) and 4 desktops which i can everything from icons to widgets in it. and one other nice feature is that i can change icons and widgets positions to anywhere i like. if meego's UI is like these pictures then i think i'm going to stick with maemo. unless nokia use harmattan UX in their meego devices.

[kojacker]

- MeeGo is themable. Colors, icons, fonts are the most volatile aspects in MeeGo screenshots since this is most probably the first thing a vendor will customize, and even yourselves as users.

This is good stuff. I hope to see most elements in the GUI positionable by style sheets or similar such as Maemo with Conversations. I hope Meego will go further than Maemo, for example, in that we can set the position of elements in areas such as the call handling screen so we could reposition the answer/reject buttons ourselves through theming without needing to plead via bug fix/feature request.

[radekpl]

maybe this one WILL have slide to answer button :)

[msa]

noooooooooo, they killed the multitask-button?

:D

[qgil]

noooooooooo, they killed the multitask-button?

:D

MeeGo is expected to have a strenght in multitasking.

msa, after 495 posts in this forum you can do better than this. :) Please let's keep certain level of posts at least in this MeeGo / Harmattan forum.

[qgil]

Added another point that was creating some confusion in this thread:

- MeeGo is by definition device neutral. Don't make big conclusions about the sizes and proportions of MeeGo screenshots since vendors have the freedom to design products with different display resolutions.

[TheBootroo]

are these screenshot real screenshot (of existing devel release) or just mockups ?

because i just went to meego's gitorious and 'Handheld UX' is still empty ....

so is intel developping the handset ui in his secret workshop or are these screenshot in fact just mockups ?

and is the 1.0 release of meego (in May) going to have this ui ??? so a functionnal ui i mean ?

i would love more polishing (rounded square but not too much, just like Matrix theme for maemo 5) and more usable top panel (with dashboard button and 2 lines of tray icons, and clock not centered....). but i love dark themes with monochrome icons.

i like particulary the photo album ui ....

i hope the contact managment being at least as good as maemo 5 one that i found almost perfect ....

and i want all of that in pure Qt4.6/C++ obviously !


looks promising so stay tuned !!

[johnel]

What I really like about these developments is that it brings the "desktop" experience closer to mobile devices.

[steev182]

I think this UI looks really clean, understated and seems like it could make better use of the screen (freeing up space by what looks like halving the top bar.)

Hopefully we'll see some shots of the notification system and so on.

The 'lifestream' looks like it could do with a little work, but other than that, I'm quite happy with it.

The netbook UX was not as appealing, it is just the moblin UI :(

[johnel]

Is the development of the MeeGo UI for the n900 being developed behind "closed doors?"

[msa]

MeeGo is expected to have a strenght in multitasking.

msa, after 495 posts in this forum you can do better than this. :) Please let's keep certain level of posts at least in this MeeGo / Harmattan forum.

i thought the " :D " smiley made clear i was joking... :rolleyes:

[Bec]

MeeGo is expected to have a strenght in multitasking.

msa, after 495 posts in this forum you can do better than this. :) Please let's keep certain level of posts at least in this MeeGo / Harmattan forum.


I think he meant the button, the half pressed soft camera button is so addictive for sending apps in the background! :rolleyes:

Of course, only if you have camkeyd installed.

[bald.eagle.one]

That god it doesn't have the maemo feel. Maemo ui is terrible, embarassingly ugly.

must disagree
i feel exactly opposite

;)

[me2000]

Meego roadmap from same Intel Developer Forum meeting as all screenshots in the thread.

I LOVE the fact that they are committing to new releases every 6 months. Ship early, ship often. Thanks to Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. for showing the way.

[qgil]

Thanks to GNOME, actually. :)

[stlpaul]

I know the screenshots are fake/concept/whatever... but i don't care for them. Looks like some NOKLA phone UI. :)

[godofwar424]

People complaining of the looks? Why?

Its nowhere near finished yet so there are gnna be alot of tweaks over this UI. Also Nokia are probably going to create their own UI in order to suit their phones features more!

Tbh, a UI is more impressive when it gets the job done. I want to be able to just do thethings I want to without hassle. I would prefer to sacrifice beauty for functionality and people can always create themes. It doesn't have to have the all the beautiful buttons by default does it!

Give these things time. People are talented at theming so lets hope nokia/intel get the UI functionally perfect and let the theme creators worry about the beauty of it :)

[Bec]

I'd ask qgil what he thinks but I don't want to stress him :p

IMHO the number of companies & corporations that joined this project is simply amazing!

I have never (ever) seen such a reaction before, It's truly incredible what Nokia managed to achieve!

[maxximuscool]

I prefered MeeGo UI instead of Maemo5 though. If only N900 have portrait mode then I might change my mind. But seriously MeeGo UI looks nice and simple, and may be better on the frame rate as well. I would not mind to get that UI on my N900 if it would make my N900 smoother and fluid :)

[Crashdamage]

I'd ask qgil what he thinks but I don't want to stress him :p
Doubt qgil is allowed to give his opinion. Which might stress him a bit too. But I can. Well, really no opinion on these screenshots as it's way too early and they really don't much matter anyway, each manufacturer will have a UI version, plus 'community' versions no doubt will come out. I just know I'd never use an ugly, screen-space hoggin' Playskool UI like WinPhone 7. I'm not 7 years old. Maemo is generally pretty good, better than Android. We'll see what develops...

IMHO the number of companies & corporations that joined this project is simply amazing!
I have never (ever) seen such a reaction before, It's truly incredible what Nokia managed to achieve!
Yeah, if they back up words with action. Just me talkin' and I could be wrong, but I really believe MeeGo will be huge in 2-3 years, a real game-changer. 2-3 years ago I was sayin' the same thing about Android while showing people my new G1. They all thought I was nuts then...not so much now.

[Bec]

I sure hope the do something about the app manager. I'm testing stuff and ti's getting on my nerves.

It's slower than a 386!

[ZShakespeare]

I sure hope the do something about the app manager. I'm testing stuff and ti's getting on my nerves.

It's slower than a 386!

try running a package manager on any 386 and see what happens ;)

[Bec]

It looks to me like some very heavy indexing is going on in there. Perhaps something could be done to ease the process, like an xml list of apps or so...

[tissot]

MeeGo running on different devices
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZlY5oN2qC4&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdulMtEMnN8&feature=player_embedded

[Jack6428]

MeeGo is damn ugly, it's like some WM7 rip-off.

[daemonfin]

MeeGo is damn ugly, it's like some WM7 rip-off.
Brief guide to "MeeGo screenshots" in general:

- The only MeeGo real screenshots are the ones coming from a real MeeGo release. Take the rest as potential previews, concepts, proposals...

- MeeGo screenshots can refer to one or many UX categories. Nobody is trying to squeeze the Netbook UX in a handset etc.

- MeeGo screenshots can refer to the system UI or applications. Then vendors can ship their devices with those apps or another, with that same system UX or a different one (changing the theme or bringing deeper changes).

- MeeGo screenshots might show the UI of a specific release, but of course the UIs can and probably will evolve between releases.

- MeeGo is themable. Colors, icons, fonts are the most volatile aspects in MeeGo screenshots since this is most probably the first thing a vendor will customize, and even yourselves as users.

- MeeGo is by definition device neutral. Don't make big conclusions about the sizes and proportions of MeeGo screenshots since vendors have the freedom to design products with different display resolutions.

Now speaking for Nokia as a MeeGo vendor, and with Harmattan in mind:

- Nokia is leading the development of the UI framework providing the Handset UX. The same enablers (the same DNA, if you wish) are expected in the official MeeGo releases and the Nokia handsets based on MeeGo.

- Nokia is working on a user experience for handsets based on MeeGo that Nokia users recognize as distinctively from Nokia. For instance, most official applications in Nokia devices based on MeeGo will be different than the reference apps provided by the MeeGo project.

And answering the question about landscape/portrait support, the MeeGo project hasn't published a roadmap with that information yet but Nokia devices based on MeeGo will come with full landscape and portrait support. This was already announced in the Maemo Summit last year and we are keepind that plan.

[sregular]

I'm seing non-wvga resolution (more n97 like) and lots of senseless info. I'm working on a short 2m video bout my vision of MeeGo UI. Some tiny part of it for example:
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/1760/source2.png
I hope to release it before major MeeGo announcement just to compare my work with whole maemo/meego design unit results.

That looks slick. Does anyone really know if MeeGo will have a really strong community like this one?

[dtergens]

screenshots of meego-phone : http://mynokiablog.com/2010/06/02/pics-sneaky-peek-at-meego-handheld-ux/

[danramos]

That looks slick. Does anyone really know if MeeGo will have a really strong community like this one?

Strong? You mean, optimistic like this community used to be or fragmented like this community is now?

[mrojas]

screenshots of meego-phone : http://mynokiablog.com/2010/06/02/pics-sneaky-peek-at-meego-handheld-ux/

That looks like the MeeGo "base" UI.

[Chrome]

New screenshot:

http://nokia.hdblog.it/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/MeeGo_telep_ricciolo_030610-371x495.jpg

source: http://nokia.hdblog.it/2010/06/03/meego-ecco-la-prima-immagine-dellinterfaccia-telefonica/

[Blinde]

Looks kinda ugly.

[zfarooq]

this isnt with the Nokia UI on top...most of these are the vanilla meego

[fieryriver]

this isnt with the Nokia UI on top...most of these are the vanilla meego

even if that's the case it should be more impressive like vanilla android.

[Chrome]

More screens:

http://mynokiablog.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/meego-phone-ux.jpg?w=600&h=800

http://mynokiablog.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/picture-0151.jpg?w=600&h=450

[mobiledivide]

These screenshots and open development was discussed on meego forum. Anyone can log into bugs.meego.org and look at screenshots and read bugs. The stock Meego 1.0 release is not going to be pretty most will want to stick with maemo 5, buttons don't work and the like.

[fieryriver]

looking at the screenies again: its actually not that bad and this is probably just a very early version. I bet it would be good even without nokia's ux which probably would not be put into the meego community build for n900

[flailingmonkey]

Note, those pictures came straight out of the MeeGo bugzilla, from bugs listed under the Handset UX "product" with screenshots that had been attached.
Poke around there for some more if you like :-)

EDIT: ah, mobiledivide you beat me to it =P

[inidrog]

This MeeGo thing makes me have the BeOs feel :/
I really hope I`m wrong.

[ToJa92]

/me thinks it looks nice.

[tissot]

This is indeed MeeGo vanilla you could say, but Nokias Harmattan is a bit more than just UI.

[Chrome]

Quim gil's response about the pictures:

The MeeGo Handset UX announced by the TSG to go public this month basically consists of the MeeGo Touch Framework and a set of reference applications maintained by the MeeGo project.

The MeeGo based device announced by Nokia to go public on 2H2010 will have the software release codenamed Harmattan and a UX that basically consists of the MeeGo Touch Framework and a set of applications decided by Nokia.

[fieryriver]

This is indeed MeeGo vanilla you could say, but Nokias Harmattan is a bit more than just UI.

What else can harmattan offer? I'm genuinely interested. For that matter what does HTC sense offer more than just the ui. I never really understood all these ui's from different manufacturers

[HellFlyer]

Dont know about you guys but screenshots that OP posted are not new :) I've seen them before....


N00b question , for what X stands for? I thought its called UI ( user interface)

also a question for qgil I dont know whether you can answer it now but given the way Nokia acts recently regarding updates will a MeeGo 1.0 running device get update to 1.1 and 1.2 etc ? Or they will release new version every 6 months for a new device?

Thanks

[fieryriver]

Dont know about you guys but screenshots that OP posted are not new :) I've seen them before....


N00b question , for what X stands for? I thought its called UI ( user interface)

also a question for qgil I dont know whether you can answer it now but given the way Nokia acts recently regarding updates will a MeeGo 1.0 running device get update to 1.1 and 1.2 etc ? Or they will release new version every 6 months for a new device?

Thanks

user experience (i think)

[sjgadsby]

N00b question , for what X stands for? I thought its called UI ( user interface)

"UX" is User Experience.

[danramos]

Just like XP was just a sideways smiley expression of using Windows.

[Mike Fr]

It looks like a logic, intuitive follow-up on Maemo 5. Makes me curious!

[buurmas]

What else can harmattan offer? I'm genuinely interested. For that matter what does HTC sense offer more than just the ui. I never really understood all these ui's from different manufacturers
Well, that seems to be all the rage these days. Device manufacturer don't want to just differentiate themselves by hardware (e.g. 5MP camera vs. 3MP, etc.). They want to slap some custom apps on the OS base (Facebook, Twitter, app launcher, etc.). Seems like everyone's doing that in the Android world, and MeeGo is also very much geared toward this model.

[gerbick]

Seems clean and uncluttered. Almost Microsoft Metro (Zune, MetroTwit, WinMo 7) like - which... to me is a good thing.

[ZShakespeare]

This is indeed MeeGo vanilla you could say, but Nokias Harmattan is a bit more than just UI.

It will include Nokia proprietary apps, and I believe the fear is that they won't be any better than the ones we have currently. If they aren't a lot of power users (such as ourselves) will probably want to use a vanilla version of MeeGo anyways, as I refuse to believe that the MeeGo developers will want reference apps that are less functional than the ones we have.