Nokia N900 to get ‘Developer Edition’ MeeGo Port

Jay over at MyNokiaBlog has managed to find out that the Nokia N900 will be getting some MeeGo support, through an Official ‘Developer Edition’ port of the OS.

From the Wiki, and an email from Jukka Euland, Product Manager for the Developer Edition :

Target is to make a Developer Edition of MeeGo for the Nokia N900 device. Flashed with this edition N900 will be usable as a primary phone device for a developer/hacker person. The focus is on meeting the non-functional targets (such as performance) rather than number of features. This will hopefully encourage more people to use MeeGo on N900, and continue enhancing the functionality or build new stuff.
Developer Edition is built from MeeGo 1.2 trunk content.
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I am thrilled to announce a little thing we started at Nokia. Basically we want to have MeeGo running in N900 device, so that it’s really usable as your daily development device. Basic Handset UX should work, phone calls, SMS, web browsing. So we are concentrating on a few selected features and polish those to be “perfect”. It might mean that we leave out some things in MeeGo 1.2 trunk for this edition, but that is not the default intention.
We are doing this fully on the open, and I hope this is an interesting project where we all in the community work towards the same goal: have a great MeeGo edition in the N900. This work is naturally based on the great work done already by N900 adaptation team lead by Harri and Carsten.
The wiki is up here: http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900/DeveloperEdition. It will populated with more information as we go, thanks for the patience.
Br,
Jukka Developer Edition product manager
twitter.com/jukkaeklund
IRC: jukka
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jukkaeklund

More info over at the source. Deffo good news for N900 owners!

[via MyNokiaBlog]