News from Nokia: a New Generation Smartphone Platform

12th October, 2009 by Adina
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Look for both portrait and landscape support, multitouch, capacitive touchscreens, and a desktop significantly larger than the display, which can be navigated either vertically or horizontally: Nokia’s Maemo 6 comes with all these in 2010.

The Linux-based OS will align with modern platforms like iPhone or webOS. Until now, the software has depended on single-touch resistive (pressure-dependent) screens incapable of gestures or other more precise movements.

Compared to its predecessor, Maemo 5, Maemo 6 will treat the device screen as a window on the desktop, which it calls “the canvas principle”. The desktop window contains widgets and controls and the device pans over it.

According to the preliminary development kit schedule, a Beta version of the Qt development framework and Beta of Nokia Web Runtime for Maemo 6 will be ready in the second quarter of 2010.

At the same time, Nokia claims it has ported Qt to the Maemo 5 mobile platform, which will allow developers to not only write mobile applications for devices such as Nokia N900 but also easily convert them to Symbian or Windows Mobile phones.

The final release of Maemo 5 OS is due for early in 2010, while Maemo 6 is expected in late 2010.


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