Intel unveil MeeGo 1.2's Tablet UX

In more "big reveal" thinking, Intel have showed off the new MeeGo 1.2 Tablet UX at Mobile World Congress. In a well-received memo last year, Carsten Munk railed against the "big reveal" culture. At a time when confidence in MeeGo is shaken, showing something shiny is good. However, MeeGo's selling point to date has been, we're told, it's openness. This hasn't been developed in the open, has no MeeGo 1.2 feature items and so Intel shouldn't be able to claim this is the MeeGo Tablet UX without ratification of the TSG. In a blog post, Bob Duffy says: I was lucky enough to get an early version of the pre-alpha MeeGo tablet User experience, so I thought I'd share my experience. I'm drafting this post almost a week before it comes out, so the version I'm testing may be a version or two behind the actual release of the alpha. Note, I'll add notes to my post for any changes once this launches. It's important to put this release in context. This is an alpha release for developers. When a consumer tablet goes to market it will benefit of a future beta version and eventual gold code. It will also have an OEM UI that may add or deviate from what Intel & MeeGo are providing in this pre-alpha version. The purpose of this release is to get a tablet user experinece in the hands of developers to start creating and testing apps for MeeGo tablets. So there is much more to be done here before there is a consumer ready product. However the core functionality and working APIs are in this release and you can get a good idea of how a MeeGo tablet will work from this release. It's even worse in that the development images are hosted on intel.com behind an obnoxious EULA. If MeeGo becomes dependent on Intel throwing code over the wall when they have built something shiny in their R&D labs it has nothing to differentiate it from Android, which is similarly dependent on Google.