MeeGo Preview Shows Why Nokia Embraced WP7

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Mobile OS and mobile touch UI is hard to build. Just consider how long it has taken Apple, Google, Microsoft, Blackberry, Palm and others.

A post from GigaOM by Ryan Kim has the whole story. Here is a part:

 

A little while back when rumors of a Nokia-Microsoft partnership bubbled up, I wondered why Nokia wouldn’t wait to see how MeeGo, its high-end platform for smartphones and tablets, performed. Well, after Nokia’s much-publicized decision to embrace Windows Phone 7 over MeeGo last week, early previews of MeeGo on a tablet are underscoring why Nokia was probably right to move on.
Today at Mobile World Congress, Intel previewed MeeGo, which it jointly developed with Nokia — MeeGo is amerger of Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo projects — and the early impressions from several blogs paint the picture of an OS that is still an immature alpha platform: some say that it has barely improved outwardly sincelast June’s preview at Computex. Now mind you, this is an early developer look at the software running on an ExoPC slate. But most who saw it said MeeGo is far behind in the game, perhaps so much so that Nokia had little choice but to look elsewhere. Engadget said of the OS:
[I]t’s actually rather shocking how little seems to have been improved since June. Intel claims the software is now in an Alpha stage (it was in pre-Alpha at Computex), though we’re not even sure it is that. The live updating pane interface, which reminds us a bit of the webOS cards, is certainly a neat idea and it’s actually decently attractive, but it’s when you start to dig in deep that the glitches and the lack of applications Intel’s got at the moment become very apparent.”
Meanwhile, IntoMobile weighed in and came away similarly unimpressed:
The Intel MeeGo tablet UI was slow, buggy and you could even still see the cursor as the input method. There was no fluidity in the movements and interactions and the layout didn’t necessarily get me to the stuff I wanted in a quicker way. This is an amazing disappointment really, as Intel and Nokia have been working on the MeeGo operating system for at least a year and it is still not even close to being ready for prime time.
The operating system relies on a sliding panels-based user interface, though many of the applications simply transport people out to a browser. The panels offer access to music, photos, applications, web video and friends, though the different parts can’t be reordered or customized at this point. Tapping on the panels opens up full-screen applications, while long presses on items pull up a context menu, something more familiar from PC platforms. The Chromium-based  browser doesn’t have pinch-to-zoom though it apparently does offer cut-and-paste capabilities.

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