Originally Posted by muropaketti.com

The project that never officially existed: Meltemi

A top secret operating system was being developed at Nokia side by side with MeeGo in 2010-2012, code named Meltemi. Nokia never officially told about the project. It was an operating system targeted for more affordable smart phones and was never given a final name, but MeeGo Lite was a strong candidate.

Meltemi was meant to be 100% compatible with MeeGo and it would’ve ridden on MeeGo’s developer ecosystem and apps. The objective was to get the operating system to run at a constant 60 FPS and to get apps to launch in one second. One of Meltemi’s main features was data control in a database, which would enable a single call to the database to fetch a lot of information. There were massive difficulties with the development of Meltemi, such as tight schedules, firmware versions, the database and functionality of its features, new SoC and so on.

The project was finally scrapped on June 14th 2012, and Mary McDowell, the person responsible for the project, had to resign. There’ve been a lot of rumors on the Internet about Meltemi being almost finished. According to what we’ve gathered, Meltemi was far from being finished but we’ll have more on that in our next article, “Nokia Meltemi’s story” later in 2013.

Originally Posted by juiceme (Post 1506889)

I wonder what the background of "888263" means?
Is it a way of identifying the prototype?

Originally Posted by juiceme (Post 1506889)

I wonder what the background of "888263" means?
Is it a way of identifying the prototype?

Originally Posted by eekkelund (Post 1506895)

Originally Posted by pichlo (Post 1506909)

"One elephant, two elephants..." The 12s was only from the point when I started counting.

Originally Posted by mosen (Post 1506922)

Never thought about how other languages use to count seconds by word length.

Originally Posted by mosen (Post 1506922)

So it's "einundzwanzig, zweiundzwanzig, dreiundzwanzig,..."
I guess it's somewhat equal in finnish? anyone?

Originally Posted by pichlo (Post 1506909)

I assume you meant in less than 1s. The alternative (for less than 1s) does not sound very attractive.

I needed to take a picture today and the only thing I had to hand was my Jolla. It took at least 12 seconds(!) to start the camera. I admit I did not time it with a stopwatch but after I waited for what seemed like ages I started counting in my head: "One elephant, two elephants..." The 12s was only from the point when I started counting.

Originally Posted by mynokiablog.com

I have mentioned the mandatory 1 second app start time requirement often during this text. There is a reason: as said, there was no multitasking for QML apps in Meltemi. So I present you quite normal scenario:

My friend sends me a text while I’m browsing a web page. I’ll swipe away the browser and go to recents where I tap on the notification. Wait 1 second to open messages app. Decide to reply with a photo. Tap on “attach” icon. Wait 1 second to start Gallery. Pick a photo. Gallery closes. Wait one second to load back the message editor (it got killed when I went to Gallery, remember?). Choose to add another recipient. Tap the plus icon. Wait one second for contacts. Choose a contact. Wait 1 second that editor reopens. Press send. Messaging closes. Swipe up for “multitasking bar”, tap on browser. Wait 1 second for browser to load. Continue from where you were.
With proper transition animations those seconds are not as bad as they sound and the UI feels fluid.

Originally Posted by deutch1976 (Post 1567950)

One more Meltemi article

https://nokiamob.net/2020/06/14/noki...as-golden-age/

Originally Posted by myname24 (Post 1567991)

https://tomarbisi.net/portfolio/halti/

Nokia Meltemi tablet design

Originally Posted by Mivas_Greece (Post 1567956)

I am not sure that Kataya runs on Meltemi. The prototypes we saw here have UI/icons that look like the Asha, Symbian and MeeGo.

Kataya is something else probably... Some say a custom Android to look like iOS a bit. hmm...