[sfietkonstantin]

Many people have asked questions about if some device is supported by Meego, or if there is a project about porting Meego in some device, or will Nokia port Meego to some of their devices.

In order not to repeat the same answers, I started this thread to inform those people about the currently supported devices and porting projets. This thread will also give reasons why Meego have no chance to be ported to some devices.

People may also ask questions about supported devices here.

The current supported devices are :
* Nokia N900
* AAVA developer phones
* ST-Ericsson U8500 developement platform
* N950 / N9 (Meego Harmattan, or Meego CE)

There is also a community port project to the Beagle Board and Panda Board developement platform.
http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/Meego_on_B...d_from_scratch
http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/OMAP4_Panda

Please note that Meego does not run perfectly on those devices, and the support is only for developing apps and the system. It is NOT for end users.
Please visit this page of the Wiki to see the supported devices :
http://wiki.meego.com/Devices#Handsets

There are community porting projects on various devices :
* Nokia N8x0 internet tablets
* Google Nexus One
* HTC Desire
* HTC HD2
* Google Nexus S
* Archos Gen7

Please visit those links in order to get more informations :
http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N8x0
http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/MSMQSD
http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/Hummingbird
http://codex.xiaoka.com/wiki/meego:archos


A third list of potential support :
* Samsung GT-I9000 (see thread : http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=743)
* Samsung GT-I8320 (see thread : http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=253)
* Palm Treo (see thread : http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=722)
* Galaxy Tab (see thread : http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=2520)

If your device is not listed in this two lists, no developer has tried to port Meego into it. That does not mean that Meego will not be ported into it, it is highly unprobable. However, please mind that that porting is very difficult.

For example, most of the devices in the market are "closed" devices. Android devices have to be rooted in order to access to the device and flash other firmwares.
Then the hardware of the device may need drivers, specially for graphics acceleration ships. It might need many developement effort in order to port the linux kernel into the device.
Finally, many devices (like feature phones, or small smartphones) does not have the power to run Meego.

For more information, please visit this page from the Wiki :
http://wiki.meego.com/Devices/Unlisted_Handsets

Now, why Nokia will not update it's N97 / N97 midi / 5800XM / C6 / E7 to Meego ? It requires a lot of effort. Even for the N900, it is difficult for them because they have to adapt the OS to the hardware. Moreover, most of their devices (except recent S^3 devices) does not have hardware acceleration, and may do not have enough hardware capabilities to run Meego.
That might seems to be unfair for consumers from Nokia, but they simply do not have enough resources to do this. It is too gigantic work.

Finally, why Sony Ericson does not update it's X10 to Android 2.3, why HTC does not update it's HTC G1 (dream) to Android 2.1, why Galaxy and Galaxy Spica are abandoned by Samsung or Blackberry does not updates it's Storm to QMX (the playbook's OS) ? It is for the same reason.


Thanks for reading
And sorry for long post

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EDIT : here are the list of all threads about supported devices :
If your device is in this list, it is 99% sure that it will be currently unsupported.

Nokia 5320 : http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=2408
Nokia 5800 XM : http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=875
Nokia C6 : http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=1805
Nokia N97 : http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=966
Nokia N97 (again) : http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=746
Nokia 7210 : http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=196

HTC Wildfire : http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=1953
HTC Polaris : http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=1935

Samsung i8910 : http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=2048
Samsung Wave : http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=1805

LG 920 : http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=2194
LG KS20 : http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=702

Iphone http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=2653

[jaybee]

Mods,
Please replicate and sticky this thread to all of the relevant forums!

[rzr]

BlackBerry PlayBook

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackberry_Playbook

1 GHz Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 (Cortex-A9 dual-core)

PowerVR SGX540

does this remind you something ?

I bet some mer dev is on that one too

[jalyst]

So the focus of this thread's on "pure MeeGo" (aka MeR/Nemo etc) not Nokia's MeeGo? (Maemo6x)

[wmarone]

Originally Posted by rzr

BlackBerry PlayBook

Uses the HS variant of the OMAP4, which means the bootloader and QNX kernels are cryptographically signed. Thus, putting Linux on it would be a royal, phenomenal pain in the ***.

[jalyst]

Originally Posted by jalyst

So the focus of this thread's on "pure MeeGo" (aka MeR/Nemo etc) not Nokia's MeeGo? (Maemo6x)

NVM, I just noticed how old the OP is...
I was wondering why so much of the terminology is outed.

[jalyst]

Originally Posted by rzr

BlackBerry PlayBook

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackberry_Playbook

1 GHz Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 (Cortex-A9 dual-core)

PowerVR SGX540

does this remind you something ?

I bet some mer dev is on that one too

Galaxy Nexus also uses 4430 IIRC.
As does a new variant of of the SGSII.