Archive for the tag 'maemo'

Feb 15 2010

Newlyweds: Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin

Published by Stef under business, community

This is good news for mobile free software (or open source, as you wish to call it): Maemo and Moblin joined forces today.  I had lots of expectations for Maemo, but so far Nokia hasn’t pushed it enough. This merge of the two project may give it a new life.  Now the issue is [...]

No responses yet

Mar 05 2009

New Maemo UI and new Funambol Code Sniper

Published by Stef under community, funambol

Nokia has shown the new UI framework for the next Maemo SDK, codename Freemantle. They finally are getting rid of the stylus keyboard and a lot of very cool new features. Ars published an overview and more up to date details. I’m a fan of the N8xx devices but I’m still waiting for devices with [...]

Comments Off

Jan 06 2009

The iPhone killer existed before the iPhone

Published by Stef under business

And Nokia didn’t know about it. The Linux-based Maemo platform had all the potential to radically change the cell phone landscape long before Apple came out with the iPhone. But Nokia preferred to be ultra-conservative and marketed the Internet Tablet devices such as the Nokia N810 as a toy for geeks.
Maybe this strategy has [...]

One response so far