The Nokia developer’s website says that N9 PR 1.2 (MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan 1.2 beta version number 3.2012.02-6_PR_RM680 ) for Nokia N950 developer devices has been released. They have now provided changelog which features Video call support, Five new supported languages, face recognition, enhanced copy-paste, software update notifications for applications and games in Nokia Store, folders in application and many more features and bug fixes. Now the release to user devices seems very close. You can catch all related news bytes in our previous articles,
Read the release part of the Nokia developer’s article and changelog below.
As you may have noted in our earlier blog post (Heads up for Harmattan 1.2 beta developer release (16-Jan-2012)) we are now releasing the MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan 1.2 beta version number 3.2012.02-6_PR_RM680 for Nokia N950 Developer Device. The release is available as OCF (One Click Flasher).
Harmattan 1.2 comes with a number of user experience improvements making it appealing for consumers. Five new supported languages, face recognition, enhanced copy-paste, software update notifications for applications and games in Nokia Store, folders in application view just to name a few.
Changelog :
- New languages
- Persian
- Hebrew
- Kazakh
- Thai
- Vietnamese
- 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
Bug fixes:
- There are ~122 public bugs fixed in this release. The complete list is available at harmattan-bugs.nokia.com.
Other important improvements:
- MeeGotouch Framework
- Visual hint for differentiating swipe close gesture from normal swipes
- Timestamps shown in notifications
- Notifications sorted by timestamps
- Improvements in Event Feed area
- Music controls in Lock screen
- New feedbacks added to MeeGoTouch theme:
- priority2_callbutton_press
- priority2_callbutton_release
- priority2_close
- priority2_close_multiple
- priority2_move
- priority2_popup
- Kernel updated to be in sync with the upstream kernel version 2.6.32.48
- Connectivity
- Android NDEF Push Protocol disabled
- NFC polling enabled in lock screen
- Separate switch for controlling mobile background connections while roaming
- Camera
- Self Timer support
- Composition grid + on/off control
- Calendar
- Better handling of To-Do lists, recurring events and timezones
- Private flag support for events
- Support for read-only events
- Ability to forward/reply/reply-all for received events
- Clock
- Clock alarm becomes silent by flipping the device face down instead of snoozing
- Updated time picker
- Gallery
- People view added to the grid toolbar
- Improved multiple selection indication in grid view
- Music Player
- Audiobook and podcast support
- Ability to create playlists
- Ability to delete music files from music player library views via object menu
- Possibility to see songs that are on the current play queue
- In addition, there are numerous bug fixes related to the implementation of new features, improving the overall user experience and reliability of the device.
