VIDEO: Meet Intel and Nokia's Love Child OS
So this is what a software partnership between Nokia and Intel looks like.
Intel and Nokia announced MeeGo at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona a few months ago. We know the mobile operating system is a mash up of Nokia's Maemo OS and Intel's Moblin OS but at the time, the two companies provided very little in the way of information about MeeGo.
This week, Italian site, HD Blog, carries a report that states the first MeeGo tablet should arrive in 2011. The site also boasts a video of a MeeGo in action. Still in the pre-Alpha stages, the clip gives a pretty good idea of what we can expect from Intel and Nokia next year. Multitasking is shown briefly (with music and photos happening at the same time) but it's not clear if this will be available across all applications or just a specific few.
There's also scrolling columns for social network updates and a My Slate panel, which displays information about running apps, recently opened applications and more. There's the option for a 'simple UI' mode, which gets rid of all the rich, scrolling panels and replaces them with simple icons for launching and managing applications. This mode also includes a dockable taskbar. Then you've got HD video, photo manipulation, books, music, and access to Intel's AppUp store.
Check out the video below and let us know what you think.
(Via Slashgear)

Seeing that its made by Intel, I'm sure they will be wanting to charge a lot for this. Google Chrome OS will offer some of the same things but for free. I don't remember reading about any pricing in the past few articles about Intels OS.
How hard will it be to make apps, and will companies even want to make apps for it if it doesn't take off.
No pricing yet. Very little information up until today, in fact. I'll let you know as soon as I hear anything.
Another thing is that making screenshots of pictures and internet activity, while pretty and user friendly, doesn't really make me feel comfortable. I don't want banking information, login credentials or hardcore pornography to show up unintentionally. These devices are made to offer your data everywhere, all the time, allowing you to work and "live" efficiently; but this data-centered modus operandi restricts your privacy as anyone with access to the device (or even just having the screen in sight) has also access to all your data, interests, activities and contacts as easily as you do.
edit: MeeGo is free. Download it here: http://meego.com/downloads/releases/netbook According to the roadmap, the release shown in this video will be available in October 2010.
Monotone, and sounded like it was his first time reading a script
It's Linux based and open source. If they charge anything for the software I'm guessing it will be very little as they will have to abide by the GPL.
edit: MeeGo is free. Download it here: http://meego.com/downloads/releases/netbook According to the roadmap, the release shown in this video will be available in October 2010.
I was about to say, I've downloaded and been playing with MeeGo on my netbook for almost a week now, I sure hope it's free!
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Yes, yes I know about Qt and all that jazz, but they'll have a difficult time getting developers on board.
An even bigger hurdle for them, and all future tablet makers, is the 800-pound gorilla that mp3 player manufacturers had faced for years: the iTunes content store, which now includes the App Store.
Yup. It comes down to content. Content (software/games/etc) is what won the OS war for Microsoft on the desktop even though there were numerous competing os's that were vastly superior. Steve took a note from what made Bill successful and applied the same scheme to portables.
It's going to be a "(ultra-)portable device" OS, netbook/tablet/Smartphone
However, as far as the tablet is concern, I don't see a place for it at the moment. I think most people are buying for it novelty of it, but will end up letting it collect dust in the desk somewhere and use their cell phone instead.