Nokia Releases MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan for N950, Detailed Changelog Included

No later than last week Nokia hinted to an upcoming release of an important update for Nokia N950 developer device, MeeGo PR1.2 beta.

However, the Finnish company did not disclose any details regarding the update’s changelog. Although the update that is now available for download only for the N950, the final release will also be pushed to Nokia N9 units.

MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan beta for N950 is available for download as OCF (One Click Flasher) and includes, but is not limited to, the following improvements:

• Software update notifications for content in Nokia Store;
• Face recognition for gallery and face tags for Facebook;
• Support for folders in the application view;
• Mail for Exchange global address book lookup;
• Mail thread support in the Email client;
• Extended copy-paste support;
• Media sharing with DLNA compatible devices;
• Improved browser history view;
• Compass support in Maps;
• QtWebKit update to version 2.2;
• New font taken into use;
• Front camera support;
• Video editing support in the Gallery application.

In addition, Nokia introduced new languages, such as Persian, Hebrew, Kazakh, Thai and Vietnamese. Nokia’s developers also mention that approximately 122 public bugs have been fixed in this release.

Among the numerous bug fixes some of them are related to the implementation of new features, and are mostly meant to improve the overall user experience and reliability of the MeeGo-based smartphone.

New features have been added to the music player as well, such as audiobook and podcast support, as well as the possibility to create playlists and delete music files from music player library views via object menu.

Camera has been improved as well with Self Timer support and composition grid + on/off control. For more details on the MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan beta build for Nokia N950 and the complete changelog of the update head over to Nokia Developer site.

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