Why does some Chinese site have the first screenshots (and advanced overclocking, too!) Does this imply a professional tie with Meego?

I'll just put on my flame-proof suit and say

"Does MeeGo support Landscape mode?".

Are these from the LG GW990? It would explain the strangely wide aspect ratio....

If they are from the LG GW900, its the first Meego phone, however my understanding is that its technically Moblin 2.1 MID edition which existed long before the merger, branded as Meego for marketing?

Hope so... If that actually is the complete Meego UX and Nokia does decide to use a large potion of it, I will never have to worry about checking "will the n900 run meego" threads again

I personally think Maemo5 user experiance is nearly perfect anyhow (some menus and dialog boxes could be improved,but the desktop and dashboard are as close to perfect as I have seen in a small device) The only thing I am excited about is the arrival of more applications through qt4.6...

No it ain't. Most people find it nice and stunning. You may find it ugly, but it is personal preference.
Maemo UI is one of the kind, the Desktop concept is totally different from other handphone "homescreen". Maemo Desktop allow full customization and arrangement of icons/widgets and depends on each person creativity, it can look crazy nice. You can't do that on other smartphone which homescreen have limited customization, and requires theme to look nice.

Most reviews are amazed by Maemo UI and concept; If you're not then maybe it's your preference. It's more like a computer with Desktop screen. The buttons, progress bars all are very multimedia rich look like Flash, unlike those smartphones, and Maemo have transparency settings as well. The Media Player "homescreen" have nice icons with glowing shadow; makes it looks futuristic and makes others look outdated.
The Calendar Month view look superb, look at others, they look plain and simple.
There's many more to put, but if it isn't your taste, then it's no point to carry on.

One reason I'm attracted to N900 is the Maemo UI. Every phone out there looks the same design, UI, just depend on the theme. But Maemo is like totally different from them. Besides, those that never seen Maemo UI, when I first unlock my phone, they'll be like "WOW!" when they see the Desktop. When you show them the customization on the Desktop, it's another "WOW!".

I like the maemo ui because it doesn't "get in the way".

Some GUIs almost "scream" and say "look how shiney and clever I am".

I like the maemo UI too.

Perhaps for those who don't, you should try something new and refreshing:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=46568

The screenshots don't really reflect the good looks this theme can provide

the one thing I didn't like about maemo, and currently meego is the affiliation with dead black and grey.

maemo had some color thanks to yellow notifications but all the bars were black in color. and when you look at the no.s stored in contacts, its soooooo tiny.
the call screenshot shows the same, tiny no.

Thought shouldn't we be talking about Harmattan/MeeGo? Rather than this Moblin/MeeGo because as far as i have understood these two don't share anything with UI.
http://achipa.blogspot.com/2010/03/h...-first-of.html

the screenshots are from intel developer forum being held in china yesterday and today.

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.