Sprint (US mobile network) supporting MeeGo
In a rather surprising, and important (for the US market), move, Sprint has announced plans to back MeeGo: At the Sprint Developer Conference on Wednesday, Sprint executives backed the use of the open-source MeeGo OS platform for mobile devices it will sell in the future. The carrier said it would help speed development of services and apps for many devices, including in-vehicle systems. The open-source nature of MeeGo was a key ingredient, Sprint believed. The US market has been a difficult nut to crack for Nokia, their insistence on not caving to operator demands (laudable), combined with their continued treatment of the US as an undesirable 2nd-tier market and inability to provide reasonable service and support to their remaining US customers has resulted in a steady loss of marketshare in the US for Nokia. Support from a provider like Sprint (which does not carry the iPhone and hasn't been completely dominated by Android) could be exactly the shift Nokia needs to regain their position in the US.
Nokia's end-user focused blog on MeeGo 1.1
Following the debacle of the announcement that "Maemo 5 PR1.3 would enable dual-booting with MeeGo", Nokia have made very clear that although PR1.3 has enabled dual booting and that MeeGo 1.1 is released, this isn't a commercially supported (nor even day-to-day usable) operating system that the "average" N900 user would be interested in: So what is a “project release”? Let’s start with what it isn’t. This isn’t a finished product for you to load up on to your phone and use on a day-to-day basis. The user interface is neither finished nor is it representative of what the experience will look like on future Nokia devices (we’re creating our own unique experience using Qt). What it is, is a generic version intended to allow developers and device manufacturers to get familiar with the code and the capabilities of future devices. Having Nokia engage in such communications, rather than just throwing news and announcements over the wall, and manage expectations is a good thing to see.
Qt Quick proof-of-concept on iOS 4
A YouTube user has posted a video which seemingly demonstrates Qt Quick's demo apps running on iOS (Apple's operating system which powers the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad): Quick Qt Quick (QML) demo on iPod 4G. Still needs a bit of work... Just a proof of concept for now... ;) If this progressed to a usable state (and to the point where Apple would allow Qt Quick applications in the App Store) this could make Nokia's Qt the best platform for mobile application developers.