Guys it has happened...!

Introducing the first Tablet PC MeeGo !!!!!
Please share this to as many Maemonians as possible, everyone must know.

The n900 successor has arrived.
I don't know how I came into this information, before anyone else did... but my pride just went up a notch.

Anyways, go and tell everyone.
Here it is... the MeeGo pad;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L3psUs-WRc

Enjoy!

Wow - that was an absolute bolt from the blue. You think Meego is dead, then BLAMMO, it's back!

That was announced back in August. I heard ari jaaksi heading the project But I could be misinformed.

I'm sure it was elop who came up with the name he didn't want the os, just the name...

Oh the irony & "kick in the nuts" on sooo many levels...

This looks intersting. Can someone translate...

http://www.galaxyclub.nl/2014/10/nie...-op-in-patent/

What a horrible ux.
I mean our screens are small and limited as they are... now Sammy wants to throw an unnecessary persistent Clock/Date/Weather on the top. And all these lateral App labels and longitudinal icons over the screen.

So an App will go from 85% of the screen to 35%.

So a device that has a 5.2 inch screen will behave more like a 3.0 inch screen (with annoying clutter around it). Yeah good one Samsung /s

To me it seems intresting. Almost like a mini multitasking menu. Especially if devs get standards to build small mode on apps and then swipe right to open full screen. The Intressting part would be the interaction design eg transaction back without back button with swipe.

Kangal, don't let small size screen stop improvements of how to interaction design. You can always go full size if you want

easier and quicker than telling you good mscion..

http://translate.google.com/translat...p-in-patent%2F


As far as the meego pad...
What did I say about the horrors that M$ could unleash if they studied what they bought and applied it?
What is...rather could have been... meego-ish... has been horribly tainted, twisted and deformed.
A travesty and abomination of nature itself...
This is what power, influence and money accomplishes.
A huge steaming pile of windows.
Think that you'll be able to run anything other than windows on it?
Aside from commandeering the best qualities and warping them...I most certainly find this tactic alarming and troubling...M$ has most certainly learned that some of their issues are with user friendliness and are definitely approaching the problem wisely...very troubling....needless to say ..I still think it a fail since it is windows...95, 98,millenium, xp, win7 that was it for me...all the systemic probs...sure it had it's benefits (xp tablet...all the software) ...but in the end wasn't enough...win8 attempt at touch was the end...the last straw.
But they now have the ability to be a REAL true threat....implementing a great deal of linux sanity into their mucked-up operating systems.
Da-da-da-dum (insert dramatic, foreboding, evil hollywood soundtrack here)

It has only just begun.

Its still a horrible User Experience.
Basically you have the Home Screen:
Its only one screen, no left and right screens. Just a swipe up and down.

There's the Time/Date/Weather thingy on top. And a list of stacked Apps that you normally use or the last ones you've opened.
In the middle is the name of the App written while on the right side a corresponding icon is shown. Long tapping on the icon/label expands the window and pushes the other windows (open/close) up and down. Swiping the window to the right, will put the window into the icon (collapse) and pull all the other windows towards it.

Even worse is the internal gestures in these "mini-windows". Swiping up/down from the opened mini-window will collapse it and make the already collapsed stacks on the top/bottom expand. Its doesn't scroll as you'd hope. To scroll you need to swipe up/down from the actual collapsed stack. Logic failed.

These mini-windows can be enlarged by a pinch gesture. And tapping on them will either cause an activity (ie Call contact) or it will leave the Homescreen-mini-window-clusterf-uck and dive into the fullscreen App.

To put a new "widget" / "mini-window"... you can do it in limited areas. Like on the contacts page. Grab the contact you want by highlighting/long-pressing it. Then pinch it so it expands into a mini-window and as the background fades away from the App and into the Homescreen. Choose higher or lower on where you want to stack the mini-window and just let go of pinching to place. If you place it wrong, you'll have to delete it and start from square one. Idiotic.

And there's an App Dock on the bottom. Swiping up from the dock gets you to the App Drawer. Here is the list of icons of everything on your phone. But there's no widgets.

And since there's no widgets on the Homescreen, there are no widgets around the phone. The Homescreen is meant to "behave" like widgets. But when these widgets aren't needed, they just get in the way.

Oh, you can kiss good bye to wallpapers, its all covered up on the Homescreen.

We all knew Samsung/Korea sucks when it comes to design. Its just not upto par with Japanese design or American design. We knew TouchWizz is a bad experience (save for a few things). But this is just trying way too hard and taking a leap backwards. Its like they saw LG and HTC (who also suck) trying to invent new things, and just decided to one-up them.

I mean, can you imagine them trying to shoehorn this experience on a tablet?
How about a handset with a small 4.0 inch screen?

I think I made myself pretty clear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZY0W1HLsoo

Where did you read all that? I dont know if that's the case.

I'm sure any vendor will be smarter than that.