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Brief guide to "MeeGo screenshots" in general:

- The only MeeGo real screenshots are the ones coming from a real MeeGo release. Take the rest as potential previews, concepts, proposals...

- MeeGo screenshots can refer to one or many UX categories. Nobody is trying to squeeze the Netbook UX in a handset etc.

- MeeGo screenshots can refer to the system UI or applications. Then vendors can ship their devices with those apps or another, with that same system UX or a different one (changing the theme or bringing deeper changes).

- MeeGo screenshots might show the UI of a specific release, but of course the UIs can and probably will evolve between releases.

- MeeGo is themable. Colors, icons, fonts are the most volatile aspects in MeeGo screenshots since this is most probably the first thing a vendor will customize, and even yourselves as users.

- MeeGo is by definition device neutral. Don't make big conclusions about the sizes and proportions of MeeGo screenshots since vendors have the freedom to design products with different display resolutions.

Now speaking for Nokia as a MeeGo vendor, and with Harmattan in mind:

- Nokia is leading the development of the UI framework providing the Handset UX. The same enablers (the same DNA, if you wish) are expected in the official MeeGo releases and the Nokia handsets based on MeeGo.

- Nokia is working on a user experience for handsets based on MeeGo that Nokia users recognize as distinctively from Nokia. For instance, most official applications in Nokia devices based on MeeGo will be different than the reference apps provided by the MeeGo project.

And answering the question about landscape/portrait support, the MeeGo project hasn't published a roadmap with that information yet but Nokia devices based on MeeGo will come with full landscape and portrait support. This was already announced in the Maemo Summit last year and we are keepind that plan.

Last edited by qgil; 2010-04-14 at 11:38.
 

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