Version 1.1 of MeeGo with the Handset User Experience (UX) has been been opened for developers to review and contribute. A full release of Moblin 1.1 is expected in October. Some images of the handset UI have been revealed too. For more information, see an update I made to my MeeGoNews log. Hope to see some of you at the MeeGo Developers Conference in November.

If the hardware and OS is cheap why not build business applications on top of Android? It’s proving to be slim, secure, well-supported, well documented and programmers are relatively easy to find. As we move forward we’ll see more and more single-use business applications move to the Android platform and the vertical markets that were the main customers for Windows-based ultra mobile PC products could fade away leaving  even less reason to make Windows-based UMPCs. I’m expecting to see the warehousing, law-enforcement, transport and health industry gradually (remember, these industries […]