MeeGo is a Linux-based open source mobile operating system project which was announced at Mobile World Congress in February 2010 by Intel and Nokia in a joint press conference. Its aim is to merge the efforts of Intel on Moblin and of Nokia on Maemo into one project. It is hosted by the Linux Foundation. According to Intel, MeeGo was developed because Microsoft did not offer comprehensive Windows 7 support for the Atom processor.

In this video captured from an online survey shows Nokia’s taste of the MeeGo UI. Because the MeeGo is open source, the user experience of it will slightly vary on every handset using MeeGo. The one minute, twenty-nine seconds of footage walks us through five parts — starting up, the “powerful multitasking UI,” getting connected, the Ovi Store experience, and the music player — and as you might imagine, it’s the Ovi Store portion that has us feeling like this is a thoroughly Nokia-customized experience (not to mention the copyright in the lower left). It generally looks richer and more functional and responsive than the Symbian^3, but still somehow doesn’t feel that smooth if compared to Windows Phone 7 and Apple’s iOS.

[via Engadget]