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The S60 software platform is slowly ageing away with Maemo covering it up. So I have to say, that the S60 users have to now get used to Maemo. You’ll hear me say this a couple of times here at our Nokia N900 blog.
Maemo 5 is currently present on the Nokia N900.
The Maemo OS which is based on Debian Linux and the GUI which is derived from various frameworks and libraries. The software uses the window manager, and GTK-based Hildon as its GUI and application framework..
Maemo 5 actually has nice 3D games cooking up for us with a new Twitter app.
Here is something that you can expect for the Nokia N900 :

So you can see that Maemo is actually better than Symbian but only in a few ways. The best thing is that you have the terminal to fix problems and awesome games e.g the roller coaster game in the video is really testing our patience.
At work/home and your laptop or computer stops working? Then use your Nokia N900, it is a mini computer in your hands.
With (Maemo) Debian Linux based, Mozilla, the internet browser technology and the Nokia N900 deliver a extremely good mobile experience. The device shows where Nokia is going with software and Nokia should continue to work with the community to unlock the new software capabilities.
Maemo is something that is fuses the power of the computer, the internet and the mobile phone, which is great to see that it is evolving marvelously. If you have any different opinions, let us know at the Nokia N900 forum.

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During last week you may have noticed many informations about Nokia changing smartphone platfrom from Symbian to MeeGo for good. But let’s take some facts under consideration first.
Only thing we know about upcoming Nokia smartphones with MeeGo on board is leaked video presenting Nokia N9 and some unconfirmed specifications. Only sure thing in all of this commotion is that Nokia is still working on MeeGo system, some of progress we can see in open-source projects related to this system, like Maemo 6/MeeGo UI Framework.
Among confirmed informations we have Nokia N8 and as far as I know it’s based on refreshed Symbian version with new interface and Qt-based applications available. I don’t think that releasing new device with Symbian packed with new features will be the last call of this platform.
In my humble opinion Symbian won’t vanish from Nokia’s offer any time soon, but we can hope for more move in MeeGo direction, first step is to be taken by (hopefully) upcoming Nokia N9. History of N900 and Maemo have already met few situations when speculation was crushed by reality, so let’s just wait for facts!
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We already know that Nokia is preparing new mobile phone as successor of Nokia N900. Maemo 6 UI Framework was already revealed as open source project, the only thing that’s not certain is hardware that will run Maemo 6/MeeGo.

Some fresh news uncover more details on Nokia N9, or what is known as leaked RX-99 device. It is said to have 64GB of internal memory (twice as much as N900), capacitive touchscreen (so one step ahead after resistive touchscreen in N900) and full QWERTY keyboard. You can already see short Nokia N9 teaser video on youtube, The first video was already removed from youtube, but it’s easy to find copies by searching for Nokia N9 teaser, there is no official statement that it’s real, but also none that it’s fake.
I think that after releasing MeeGo 1.0 for netbooks some time ago Nokia will speed up with next Linux-based phone and I hope we can see official announcement soon. If rumours fit reality we can expect really good smartphone in the next few months.
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Some time ago I’ve mentioned Widgets Gallery, UI concept of Maemo 6. Even earlier you could have found series of Qt-based demos. Qt itself is application framework taken over by Nokia in 2008. Since then technology was developed to be available on every platform Nokia could reach, including Linux-based mobile phones, and Symbian. If to belive in Qt’s most important feature, portability, the code written in a good manner can be used to build application for Windows, Linux, Symbian, Mac OS and more.
I’m sure that in case of N900, the technology is advanced enough to write complex and advanced applications. In extras-devel repository there is a series of Qt Mobile Demo applications like MyBudget, HyperUI and ShopList. Part of it, Qt Mobile Demo: Weather is now developed as regular application, still staying in extras-devel before will be well tested and approved.
What makes Qt so attractive? I think that putting together a nice piece of software is fairly easy with default available widgets. At least try demos mentioned above or have a look on screenshots, slick and steady, rather concepts than fully working applications, but give a nice view on what is possible with this framework. Phone UI looks futuristic, but still elegant and intuitive. Lists, counters, charts, animations, overall look of MyBudget and ShopList are really eye-candy. As concept-only work it makes me think more optimistic about UI future!
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For more info on devel and testing catalogues visit Application catalogues tutorial
Please visit Nokia N900 Forum

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Once every few days devel and testing catalogues give me a piece of software I want to have or at least I want to see how does it look like. This time I’ve encountered a neat surprise, concept of UI for Maemo 6 in Widgets Gallery application.
First view gives quite good idea of what will Maemo 6 look like. Statusbar on top is organised in the way we got used to, with homescreen icon on the left, close/back button on the right and drop-down menu in the middle. If to belive in this concept, new UI will support landscape and portrait mode in every phone orientation (even upside-down). Widgets seem clean and fairly easy to use on touch screen. Changing orientation keeps approximately the same size and order of UI elements, operating with fingers is easy and it’s possible to freely use one hand in portrait mode.
If we look into the backend of Widgets Gallery, we will see that it’s based on libdui, Harmattan UI framework built on top of Qt 4.6, which has been recently released to open source. Library looks quite mature and gives all of elements theoretically needed by any application and may be good base for upcoming Nokia mobile devices.
As a concept the Widgets Gallery still has some glitches which you can find if playing with it for too long, but shows consistent way to take advantage of Qt framework and all of its features.

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The question in the title is actually a little tricky. You can get it in two different meaning, the logical which it would be someone actually paying for the phone. But the truth meaning is if you have believed on the rumor about the Nokia N900 successor.
I haven´t posted anything about this rumor before because I wasn’t to confidence about it. A few weeks ago, if you looked up some news in the internet about the Nokia N900, you would probably met with the exciting news about a image leak of the Nokia N920, the Nokia N900 successor which all the people where talking about. A lot of Blogs wrote about it.

A very beautiful looking phone as you can see. Everyone was breathless when seeing that the phone didn’t have a QWERY Keyboard. The information was that it had a 4,13” capacitive touch screen, multi-touch and that the OS would be Maemo 6 and the phone would be released sometime near mid 2010.
But the lies have short legs that´s what my grandfather always said. Only a few days later from the first appear of the image, the NokiaPort guys posted this. Explaining that the image was fake, and how they started with this rumor by only making the fake image. The rest was made up by everyone who saw the image and wrote about it.

Be careful of what you read in the Internet!