Meltemi - new mobile OS by Nokia for low-end phones

mario

Just got this on twitter :)

"http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtsensors/blobs/f2bd56289283900cd1dcf2c52b93952f98e45144/src/sensors/qirproximitysensor.cpp":http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtsensors/blobs/f2bd56289283900cd1dcf2c52b93952f98e45144/src/sensors/qirproximitysensor.cpp

Check the line "This file is part of the QtSensors middleware for ..." Oops! :)

leon.anavi

[quote author="mario" date="1332334424"]Check the line "This file is part of the QtSensors middleware for ..." Oops! :)[/quote]

Wow :) That's great, thanks for sharing! Finally good news about Qt from Nokia!

mario

The bad news is that the commit is from "Tuesday September 06 2011". A lot can have happened since. Cross your fingers :)

The git log seems to been manipulated though, this commit doesn't exist in the history when browsing

jaak

Please see this link

"http://nokiagadgets.com/2012/02/26/konttori-is-back-confirms-meltemi-pr1-2-improves-camera-a-lot-on-n9/":http://nokiagadgets.com/2012/02/26/konttori-is-back-confirms-meltemi-pr1-2-improves-camera-a-lot-on-n9/

This should be for the next billion thing and according to official info Qt should run on next billion

leon.anavi

Just found out a couple of interesting articles about Nokia N9, Nokia next billion plan and Meltemi:
"Why is Nokia Still Working on MeeGo?":http://www.netbooknews.com/47198/why-is-nokia-still-working-on-meego/
"Nokia working on Two New low end MeeGo Smartphones":http://www.netbooknews.com/47197/nokia-working-on-two-new-low-end-meego-smartphones/

john_god

Meltemi is the name of a wind.
For sure it's a well chosen name. Time passes by, and like the wind, we don't see nothing... where are you Meltemi ? :)

jaak

I guess the announcements regarding meltemi should coincide with the release of Qt 5.0.

andre

It sounds unlikely to me that Meleti would be based on Qt 5. Meleti has, if the rumours are true, been in development for awhile now. Qt 5.0 has only just reached a sort-of feature complete state. No one in his right mind will base something they want to launch on an unstable platform like Qt 5 is at this moment.

So: I don't see the connection between the two.

jaak

I don't know how stable Qt 5.0 is. I have read that Qt 5.0 will be released sometime this year. There are rumors that meltemi based phones will be released later this year. Symbian don't support Qt 5.0. Then what else ? I just thought, may be Qt 5.0 should be supported on Meltemi.

leon.anavi

[quote author="leon.anavi" date="1317306632"]This is an interesting rumor but as we all know the road from rumors to a stable OS for the mass market is long and thorny.[/quote]

It seems that "Meltemi won't make it to the mass market":https://twitter.com/nkaratt/status/213202227379179520 after "the recently announced job cuts in Nokia":http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-14/nokia-to-cut-10-000-jobs-as-elop-tries-to-stanch-losses.html.