Now that MeeGo is a hot topic, I think it’s time to introduce RdUX – the Revolutionary Device User eXperience. So you might ask that what the heck is the RdUX and how it is related to MeeGo. Well it’s related on Meego in that way, it runs on Intel Atom based Moblin (Moblin Core from Moblin Netbook 2.1) device, which has a 7″ touch screen supporting multitouch. The other thing how it is related on MeeGo is, that it is fully based on Qt, the official MeeGo UI Toolkit.

Why do I want to promote RdUX here, is because I think it’s pretty cool to show of what guys that I’m working with made in six weeks (including linux driver development for multitouch support). Window management of RdUX uses OpenGL and it introduces pretty smooth user interface for interacting with applications. It uses gestures quite heavily and it introduces also custom gestures. Check the next video where you can see examples of basic interactions (the introduction is bit too long, but it might be worth to listen that):

As you can see from the video, there are smooth interactions, multitouch, no icons, custom gestures based on QGesture API, virtual keyboard, web browser, QML/Declarative UI applications and much more in the future. This project is ongoing and at least I am interested in to see how it continues. The device itself is not targeted as a phone, but more like something between your mobile phone and desktop workstation. The content is mostly related on Web and media such as photos, music and videos.

About the device itself. There is another video where you can see how it looks like. There are two of real device in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress at the moment and couple of portable proto units also. I think the table model looks quite futuristic and geeky. I’d like to have this kind on device in my living room:)

Do you want to know more about RdUX? You can read an official post from Cybercom’s Technology blog in http://www.cybercomchannel.com. And this is not a paid advertisement, I wrote this article just to promote this cool looking gadget and the work of my colleagues.

If you’re not familiar with MeeGo yet, you can check out Ari Jaaksi’s blog entry: “MeeGo Time!” where he describes his vision about it. There is also a web site for MeeGo in http://meego.org. I think it’s quite interesting to see where all this Intel & Nokia collaboration will lead. I guess first needs to be decided should MeeGo use debian packaging or RPMs, which is a HUGE issue:)

Thanks for reading my blog.