Pre-Alpha MeeGo Atom Tablet Including AppUp Store
MeeGo is starting to shape ups as you can see in this recent video of the pre-alpha version from the MeeGo demo team. MeeGo 1.0 was recently released last month and that version was the netbook version of MeeGo available to OEMs to download and develop their breed of MeeGo based netbook devices. What you are seeing is this video is a pre-alpha version of the multi-touch tablet version of the OS.
One thing is for certain. MeeGo is generating interest. I love this quote for Engadget, they don't hold back
"We'll be frank -- what we're seeing here is downright dazzling, and it all looks a heck of a lot easier to wrap one's noodle around than a full-on copy of Win7. Peek it for yourself, won't you?"
As stated on in the YouTube posting some features may not be available in the tablet release and as pre-alpha demo there are things being shown here that need to take account the pre-alpha nature of the demo. But you can definately see what is going on here and imagine the kind of experience MeeGo will deliver.
As it stands a tablet version of MeeGo is slated for a fall release, so for now we can speculate on what will be there based on this video. There seems to be 2 ways to navigate, by application and by content. The content part is what is first shown in the video and demostrates something we have yet to see in a touch tablet devices. I like to think of it as Tweetdeck Gone Wild. Recent content, recent web pages, social content, content currently open are all accessalble in these scrolling columns. And by auto creating thumbnails for your content, this experience really caters to an immersive visual experience that we are seeking with these mobile devices.
I hope this concept is carried over to applications and the MeeGo team provides reference UX documentation and APIs for generating content thumbnails and creating the responsive scrolling features via touch and gestures. I can imagine media and social apps making use of these scrolling thumbnails as list views in their applications UI.
The app navigation view is more like the iPhone iPad approach, but the MeeGo team is obviously playing to its multi-tasking strengths by providing a row of apps/content that are currently running. In previous handheld demos we saw some grouping and categorization of app rows allowing horizontal scrolls of app categories. Would be nice to see how the Tablet version will allow you to manage and navigate across dozens of apps.
Gesture control is shown with the photo app here, showing a fairly smart and responsive interaction with gestures for resizing and rotating a photo. There is 5 finger multi-touch, which is amazing. I'm imaging some cool multiplayer tablet games allowing 5 people to control part of the screen and game play.
And finally a knod to AppUp, which looks nice on the screen. Not seeing an tablet specific features yet in the interface, and this looks to be a creative adjustment to the existing store.
From the Atom Developer Program side I can tell you we are excited about MeeGo. And we will be in the middle of this, helping developers get MeeGo apps developed for devices like shown in this video. Currently we have folks working with the MeeGo team on developing SDK for AppUp and we are keenly interested in making sure our site and community gets the information & tools needed to develop & port apps to MeeGo.
I wish I could tell you more, so stay tuned!
One thing is for certain. MeeGo is generating interest. I love this quote for Engadget, they don't hold back
"We'll be frank -- what we're seeing here is downright dazzling, and it all looks a heck of a lot easier to wrap one's noodle around than a full-on copy of Win7. Peek it for yourself, won't you?"
As stated on in the YouTube posting some features may not be available in the tablet release and as pre-alpha demo there are things being shown here that need to take account the pre-alpha nature of the demo. But you can definately see what is going on here and imagine the kind of experience MeeGo will deliver.
As it stands a tablet version of MeeGo is slated for a fall release, so for now we can speculate on what will be there based on this video. There seems to be 2 ways to navigate, by application and by content. The content part is what is first shown in the video and demostrates something we have yet to see in a touch tablet devices. I like to think of it as Tweetdeck Gone Wild. Recent content, recent web pages, social content, content currently open are all accessalble in these scrolling columns. And by auto creating thumbnails for your content, this experience really caters to an immersive visual experience that we are seeking with these mobile devices.
I hope this concept is carried over to applications and the MeeGo team provides reference UX documentation and APIs for generating content thumbnails and creating the responsive scrolling features via touch and gestures. I can imagine media and social apps making use of these scrolling thumbnails as list views in their applications UI.
The app navigation view is more like the iPhone iPad approach, but the MeeGo team is obviously playing to its multi-tasking strengths by providing a row of apps/content that are currently running. In previous handheld demos we saw some grouping and categorization of app rows allowing horizontal scrolls of app categories. Would be nice to see how the Tablet version will allow you to manage and navigate across dozens of apps.
Gesture control is shown with the photo app here, showing a fairly smart and responsive interaction with gestures for resizing and rotating a photo. There is 5 finger multi-touch, which is amazing. I'm imaging some cool multiplayer tablet games allowing 5 people to control part of the screen and game play.
And finally a knod to AppUp, which looks nice on the screen. Not seeing an tablet specific features yet in the interface, and this looks to be a creative adjustment to the existing store.
From the Atom Developer Program side I can tell you we are excited about MeeGo. And we will be in the middle of this, helping developers get MeeGo apps developed for devices like shown in this video. Currently we have folks working with the MeeGo team on developing SDK for AppUp and we are keenly interested in making sure our site and community gets the information & tools needed to develop & port apps to MeeGo.
I wish I could tell you more, so stay tuned!
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