MeeGo

Before pulling out of the netbook market in the end of 2011, Dell was one of the few big computer manufacturers that offered netbooks with a pre-installed version of Linux, Ubuntu Netbook Remix to be precise.

Once upon a time there were two mobile operating systems called Moblin and Maemo, the former being developed by Intel and the latter by Nokia. In the beginning of 2010 the two companies decided to join forces and so MeeGo was born.

This short video, filmed at the Hong Kong Computer & Communications Festival 2011, shows some of the software features the Asus Eee PC X101 running a custom built of MeeGo offers. It supports social networking services like Twitter and Facebook, Adobe Air applications (which is a bit creepy), and more important for the Chinese market all mainstream Chinese input methods.

Besides the Asus Eee PC X101 also the Lenovo Ideapad S100 was showcased at the recent Computex running the MeeGo operating system. The long awaited Ideapad S100 model is equipped with a low-cost Intel Atom N435 processor and sports a 10.1" screen.