MeeGo Handset Day1 Developer Preview
We are pleased to present this Day 1 release of MeeGo Handset. As part of this release, we are excited to present you with a fresh look and feel of our handset user experience. In doing so, we have included icons and visual assets on the toolbar and home screen, as place holders for future development to make sure you have the full look and feel of MeeGo Handset. Besides look and feel assets, we are also excited to provide you with our current applications focuses. We have included a dialer, sms, photo viewer, browser, and personal connection management applications. These are our current works in progress, and we wanted to share them with you, as we continue to work on them. This will allow you to see how all the applications will start to come together for our upcoming MeeGo 1.1 release of MeeGo Handset. We have also included several settings options like working wifi and a phone simulator, so you may use the majority of the currently working applications. Additionally, at the end of this page are some of the known issues you may encounter and workarounds to help you.
Download Images
- Download the Aava Mobile Intel Moorestown platform image (MD5 Sum)
- Follow the instructions on installing the image.
- For Developers who wish to build an N900 image Download the N900 kickstart file.
The MeeGo Handset Day1 User Experience includes:
- MeeGo Handset Dialer is MeeGo's Handset dialer application
- MeeGo Handset SMS is MeeGo's Handset SMS application
- Fennec Browser is MeeGo's Qt based web browser for Handsets
- MeeGo Handset Photos is MeeGo's Handset photo viewer
- MeeGo Handset People is MeeGo's Handset contacts management system
The MeeGo Core Software Platform for Handset Day1 Features include:
- Kernel Version 2.6.35.
- MeeGo Touch Framework is MeeGo's framework to assist in rapid touch based application development.
- QtContactsTracker is MeeGo's back-end contracts storage management engine.
- Virtual Keyboard is MeeGo's virtual touch based handset keyboard.
Supported Hardware
Known Issues and Workarounds
- X crash with lock screen
- White screen
- Home screen button only works once per application
- Failure to connect to WiFi network crashes the settings application
- Cannot return to ‘People’ application once other application is launched from it
- Scrolling (sliding) picture list to left/right shows two partial pictures
- Clicking ‘All’ button pops contextual menu in ‘Pictures’
- Text corruption with on-screen keyboard
- QT Fennec scrolling and orientation switching
Description: Double tapping the lock button crashes X. Not always reproducible. Lock button is located under Home -> Apps -> second screen (slide to left) -> fourth icon.
Workaround: Please do not double-tap the lock button.
Bug 3375: Unlock screen crashes X by tapping lock icon
Description: Tapping and dragging the top tool bar show white screen.
Workaround: On white screen, tap where the home button should be, and the UI reappears.
Bug 3289: [REG] White screen shows instead of drop down menu after tapping the system UI
Description: Home screen button works only once, clicking it second time has no response.
Workaround: Do not tap home screen button two times, or do not use it at all. Application switcher is still very buggy.
Bug 2600: [REG] No response when clicking application home button the second time
Description: If establishing a connection to WiFi network fails, the settings application will crash.
Workaround: Re-launch the settings application from Home -> Settings (Second icon on bottom tool bar).
Bug 811: Click Failure network in WIFI network list can crash Settings
Description: When an application is launched from the ‘People’ application, for example, from the SMS application launched by tapping on ‘SMS’ against a mobile phone number, there is no way to return to ‘People’ application.
Workaround: Close the newly launched application to return to the ‘People’ application.
Bug 3170: People: No way to return to People from SMS/Dialer/Email
Description: In the ‘Pictures’ application, when sliding a picture to left/right, to see next/previous picture, it shows two partial pictures.
Workaround: Continue sliding in the same direction to view next/previous picture.
Bug 3532: [REG] Two incomplete photos showed simultaneously in the screen, when screen scrolled towards left/right side in photo view
Description: A contextual menu pops up when ‘All’ button is clicked, to view all photos while browsing photos in the ‘Pictures’ application.
Workaround: Click outside the pop-up menu to make the pop-up go away.
Bug 3481: [Photo viewer] The contextual menu will be popped when click the "All" button in the title bar
Description: Tapping on the ‘Sym’ button three times garbles the button text on the on-screen keyboard.
Workaround: No known workaround. The keyboard is still functional, but it’s difficult to type when you can’t see the button text.
Bug 2645: Corruption of text of VKB in input field
Description: Switching orientation from landscape to portrait causes an issue where portions of the page extends off the right side of the screen. As a result the portion of the page and the control strip on the right side become not visible.
Workaround: No known workaround.
Bug 3452: QT Fennec doesn't recalculate scrolling size after orientation switching
