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And the manufacturer to do this? Nokia. Frankly, if the N97 only ran Android and had a better touch screen it'd do most of what this article recommends.
by forkqueue 17y ago
And the manufacturer to do this? Nokia.
Frankly, if the N97 only ran Android and had a better touch screen it'd do most of what this article recommends.
- Ras_ 17y agoNokia is committed to Maemo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo_(operating_system) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo_(operating_system) Here's the announcement: http://www.ftd.de/technik/it_telekommunikation/:Strategiewende-Nokia-verliert-Vertrauen-zu-Symbian/551805.html http://www.ftd.de/technik/it_telekommunikation/:Strategiewen...
- pavlov 17y agoIt's not an "announcement". Quite the opposite: Nokia has explicitly denied FTD's report that they would be abandoning Symbian. However, phones equipped with Maemo 5 are definitely coming to the high end of Nokia's range. (Symbian's strength is that it works with substantially cheaper hardware than any of the competing smartphone OSs, which is great for Nokia, as they are particularly strong globally at the lower end of the market and in emerging markets.) The important point is that Nokia is adopting the Qt toolkit across the range. Both Symbian and Maemo will have Qt at the top of the stack by 2011. At that point, the underlying operating system won't be particularly relevant to application developers anymore: C++ software written to Qt (with the upcoming Orbit touch UI framework) will be just a recompile away from being ported to Symbian.
- Ras_ 17y agoImportant correction. Incredibly I've managed to miss that one.
- patrickas 17y agoNokia is actually committed to Symbian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian They denied the "announcement" made in that article: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090812-702406.html?mg=com-wsj http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090812-702406.html?mg=...