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MeeGo is starting to shape ups as you can see in this recent video of the pre-alpha version from the MeeGo demo team. MeeGo 1.0 was recently released last month and that version was the netbook version of MeeGo available to OEMs to download and develop their breed of MeeGo based netbook devices. What you are seeing is this video is a pre-alpha version of the multi-touch tablet version of the OS. As it stands a tablet version of MeeGo is slated for a fall release, so for now we can speculate on what will be there based on this video. There seems to be 2 ways to navigate, by application and by content. The content part is what is first shown in the video and demostrates something we have yet to see in a touch tablet devices. I like to think of it as
Tweetdeck Gone Wild. Recent content, recent web pages, social content, content currently open are all accessalble in these scrolling columns. And by auto creating thumbnails for your content, this experience really caters to an immersive visual experience that we are seeking with these mobile devices. I hope this concept is carried over to applications and the MeeGo team provides reference UX documentation and APIs for generating content thumbnails and creating the responsive scrolling features via touch and gestures. I can imagine media and social apps making use of these scrolling thumbnails as list views in their applications UI. The app navigation view is more like the iPhone iPad approach, but the MeeGo team is obviously playing to its multi-tasking strengths by providing a row of apps/content that are currently running. In previous handheld demos we saw some grouping and categorization of app rows allowing horizontal scrolls of app categories. Would be nice to see how the Tablet version will allow you to manage and navigate across dozens of apps.