I have to say something here :-) >Symbian is nearing end-of-life as the chosen platform for smartphones for Nokia.
Well, thats not true. Symbian is going to be the platform for smartphone development for Nokia. Nothing is stopping them from doing so. Maemo is target to high end mobile devices - tablets/netbooks, etc. So you will be seeing some products from Nokia on Maemo targeted to such consumers. Maemo and Symbian are never on the same level of competition, remember. Symbian has its open plan for years ahead - Symbian^1 (already present), Symbian^2 (Starting 2010), Symbian^3 (mid 2010) and Symbian^4 (end 2010) ahead. Also, the same pattern reflects on Nokia's roadmap - the plan for 2010 and ahead from the Nokia's Capital Markets day. Regarding PyS60, yes its getting better and getting more mobility functionalities - it has been ported to core 2.5 and you should be seeing a new release very soon as well. And yes, Python is also supported on Maemo. Cheers, Pankaj. (Croozeus) ________________________________ From: Anand Balachandran Pillai <abpil...@gmail.com> To: Bangalore Python Users Group - India <bangpypers@python.org> Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 9:54:42 AM Subject: Re: [BangPypers] mobile application development On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Anish Kurian <anish...@gmail.com> wrote: > you sure can develop mobile applications using python. > u can download the SDK for particular group of handset. Nokia S60 mobiles > use PyS60 SDK. Maybe similar ones are available for other handsets. > Symbian is nearing end-of-life as the chosen platform for smartphones for Nokia. As you might know N900 was recently released in select markets around the world and it runs a fully Debian-derived Linux OS named Maemo. I have been reading through N900 and Maemo reviews and this looks like disruptive technology. Symbian is still the largest selling smartphone OS right now, but can't stand up to the challenges posed by Android, Web OS etc. Symbian is not developer friendly and has stability issues. I am looking forward to get my hands on an N900 and hacking on the Maemo. Nokia is betting on Maemo - the only current issue is that it is fully GTK based (Hildon/Matchbox) but I read that Nokia is planning to bring in QT as a choice to it pretty soon. Since Nokia invests a lot in Qt this definitely make a lot of sense. Take a look at N900 and Maemo. It is surely one of the directions mobile development will take, the other being Android and its clones. > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:09 PM, pradeep T <itpradeep...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > hi friends, > > am a begginer of this language and dont know much. > > > > Is it possible for me to develop a mobile application using this > > language... > > _______________________________________________ > > BangPypers mailing list > > BangPypers@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- --Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
