In Barcelona, Mobile World Congress is in full swing, the largest conference on mobile devices and mobile communications - only the lazy one did not write about this event. Well, it’s worth it - every time at this event so many mobile innovations are shown that you can spend the whole year waiting for the gadgets on the store shelves to appear.
Among the participants of companies alone, there are more than 1,300. Of course, not without Intel - MeeGo 1.2 was finally introduced for tablets! The new version of the operating system looks pretty impressive:
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The basis of the user interface of MeeGo is the so-called “object-oriented approach”, which makes user-friendly content and contacts of friends easily accessible via a grid of objects, which is immediately displayed on the device screen. Any content can be grid elements: photo, video, friend tweet, calendar event (see video).
What people really want from their mobile device is that it does not interfere with its interface - users are not interested in software, they are interested in other people , says Nick Richards, one of the interface developers. Another developer, Darren Wilson, comments: in other operating systems, you have to run applications to do something, while in MeeGo the user gets access to things that interest him directly, bypassing unnecessary screen touches and launching unnecessary applications . Full video version of the interview with the creator of the new interface:
Something interesting: As it became known at the conference, devices based on MeeGo OS will be supported by two large telecommunication giants - French Orange and Chinese Tencent. Since yesterday, development tools for MeeGo and AppUp have been updated , and the application store is finally starting to receive applications for MeeGo from developers. Moreover - in AppUp for downloading is already available an impressive number of applications, including the acclaimed Angry Birds .
For MeeGo, a sensible finger-optimized Swype input method is being prepared, in which the user enters text without taking his finger off the virtual keyboard of the touch screen:
Well, the last good news. I repeatedly wrote about the competition of application developers ( Intel Atom Developer Challenge ) - someone missed this information, and someone took and listened. In general, I mean that among the winners were three of our compatriots under the guise of NIAsoft . Artem, Ilya and Nikolai won the audience award in the amount of $ 60,000 for developing the Alchemy Classic application - a kind of puzzle game in which you need to construct various alchemical compounds using basic bricks.
Stay in touch - the conference is not over yet, and intelligence is already reporting new interesting news!