While making it crystal clear that this is only intended for developers that want a mega-early look at the platform, Intel and Nokia’s MeeGo team has just announced that the very first cut of the melded Moblin/ Maemo mobile platform is available for download. Specifically, users of N900s, Atom notebooks, and Atom-powered Moorestown MIDs have all been gifted with their own distributions, which will boot off a USB stick or directly on the devices themselves. Sadly, the MeeGo user experience — the good stuff, that is — isn’t included here, so if you flash your N900 you’re going to end up booting into a terminal console, but hey, some of you sickos are into that sort of thing, aren’t you? Next up for the team is a release billed 1.0 that will come in May, and we’re told details on the road to that version will be unveiled over the coming days. Take care of yourselves if you go for it, alright?
source: engadgetmobile.com
It’s easy for something as grandiose as a national wireless network upgrade to get delayed ad nauseam, so we’re happy to hear here in March of 2010 that T-Mobile is still looking to blanket the “breadth” of its existing 3G footprint with 21Mbps HSPA+ service by the end of this year, covering over 100 market areas and about 185 million peeps. That’s an extraordinarily aggressive timeline for a carrier that was way, way late to the 3G game, and realistically, it’s exactly what they needed to stay competitive in the face of 4G deployments coming down the pike from all of its national competitors — in fact, they’re specifically calling out the deployment as being “4G-like” and touting the fact that they’ll be hitting way more pops this year than Sprint’s WiMAX network will. Them’s fightin’ words to be sure, but hey — competition is extremely healthy when it comes to fast, widely-deployed wireless, isn’t it?
source: engadgetmobile.com
Microsoft naturally spent the overwhelming majority of its breath chatting up Windows Phone 7 Series at MIX10 earlier this week, but buried beneath the fanfare was a little morsel for a distinctly different platform. That’s right, Symbian fans, you’ve now got a Silverlight runtime (for a few devices, anyway) some two years after Nokia announced that it’d be coming. Support right now is limited to S60 5th Edition – that is, touch-enabled Symbian devices — with both in-browser and standalone Silverlight apps available for the taking. It’s just a beta right now, so don’t have too much faith in the stability or feature-completeness of this thing — but it’s a start.
source: engadgetmobile.com
