New Nemo Mobile release for N900, N950, N9 and x86
Via: @jonquark
Editor: Andrew Flegg
The Nemo Mobile distribution, built on top of the open Mer core, has released a new version. In the announcement, Marko Saukko said: New nemo snapshot is now available and contains a lot of fixes, thanks to all from the contributions. I don't have exact list of the fixes, but here are the hilights:
- meegotouch-home is replaced with lipstick-colorful-home
- SMS application was replaced with QMLMessages
- Poweroff was added to statusbar
The version also includes an update to Mer which updates a number of system components. One of the most heartening things is that it's easy to see that Jolla is more than just hot air with the number of commits and pushes referenced in the release from "@jollamobile.com" email addresses.
Nicolas SUFFYS has posted a video of the latest user interface running on an N900.
Android 4.1 - Jelly Bean - alpha release for N9
Editor: Andrew Flegg
The NITDroid project's fifth alpha release for the N9 has bumped the Android version from 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) to 4.1 (Jelly Bean). Although voicecalls don't yet work, a surprising number of features do. In addition to full release notes and installation instructions, a short video demo is included; featuring YouTube and Fruit Ninja. Obviously, it's still a work-in-progress, so be careful before attempting this on your main phone.
Leaked details of RM-581 - the N8-like Harmattan device from 2009
Editor: Andrew Flegg
My Nokia Blog received an email purporting to show pictures of one of the original Harmattan/Maemo 6 devices: I was just sent this in, and the email is already dead. So the info is limited. What we have is a Protoype, supposedly from 2009, that ran Maemo6, more commonly known as MeeGo-Harmattan. Remember the post I wrote about the various prototypes in production? Well this is the Prototype I was told styled off N8, however, if this was from 2009, I believe the N8 was styled off this!
From the sounds of it, this was running a version of Harmattan similar to that discussed at that year's Maemo Summit in Berlin, and subsequently leaked as a mockup: a widget-laden panning/zooming user interface, described by Nokia in 2009 as a "Canvas-style UX".
This is a far cry from the stripped down, swipe user interface which was eventually released on the N9. This refocus on a simpler user interface probably was the reason why the OMAP3-touting hardware was released so late (and too late to be Nokia's hero platform); but also the reason the N9 was released to such glowing reviews.