Splashtop Moving to MeeGo For Its Instant-On OS

DeviceVM, the company behind the popular Splashtop instant-on OS, announced today that it is embracing the MeeGo operating system in a huge way. The company has ported its programs over to Meego and will be offering OEMs the new, MeeGo-powered Splashtop to put on their systems. In addition, many existing Splashtop users will be able to upgrade their Splashtops to the MeeGo version via an online download in the first half of 2011.

The move to MeeGo will allow the Splashtop instant-on environment, which has up-until-now consisted of only a handful of native applications , to install any app from Intel’s AppUp store. So rather than being just a simple instant-on environment with Web, e-mail, and Skype, and a perhaps a photo manager (depending on what version of Splashtop your computer comes with), the new MeeGo Splashtop will be a fully functional netbook OS.

Despite the new functionality, DeviceVM assured us that they plan to maintain the same quick boot times that have made them a popular instant-on solution on notebooks and netbooks from Dell, HP, ASUS, Lenovo, and others.

In addition to the standard suite of MeeGo apps and the AppUp store, DeviceVM told us it will preload a MeeGo version of its Splashtop Remote remote access software on the new OS. That means users will be able to boot into Splashtop on their netbooks and then quickly and easily control their desktop or larger laptop from the netbook.

We look forward to seeing the MeeGo version of Splashtop on a shipping product sometime in early 2011, but we were able to get a quick demo of it installed on a Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t here at IDF. Check out the video below.