Hi Manoj,
On 11/29/2010 10:15 AM, Manoj Kumar wrote:
Hi friends,
I have a fantastic smartphone ever from nokia which runs fortunately on
linux kernel.
Nokia N900. It runs on Maemo os, the bestEST competent for Android,
Congratulations on getting the N900 ! It really is a nice phone with a cool
platform.
Now that said, I'm really sorry to be the person to bring you some bad news --
Although MeeGo is supposed to be the successor for Maemo, it is a /totally/
different platform. MeeGo is a ground up redesign of the best ideas of Maemo and
Mobilin. As such, Maemo is not 'upgradable' to MeeGo. Worse still, the N900 will
never see an official Meego release from Nokia (or rather the Meego project,
which is part of the Linux Foundation). The good news though is there is a
community effort to port Meego to the N900[1].
disclaimer: Biased opinions follow.
though,
i don't find a lot many developers on this platform..
Then you haven't really looked at the right place :). Maemo has been around
since 2005 (since Nokia's 770 Internet tablet) and has a very large developer
community. The main place for finding information, applications and developers
for maemo is at:
http://maemo.org/
I invite some tech wizards and geeks to join this adventure and get their
hands dirty on maemo.
I would rather recommend switching to Meego instead. Considering the fact that
there is no corporate push behind Maemo anymore (which is, IMHO, fairly
important in the handheld device market -- but then again, I could be proved
wrong in the years to come).
MeeGo which is the next supposed version of Maemo comes from the world's two
biggest rivals in microprocessor technologies, Intel with the support of
AMD. And from the smartphone giant Nokia.
As of right now tho', working on Meego is a bit painful (as compared to Android)
given the fact that there isn't any clear roadmap or even a real world reference
design for Meego. Nokia & Intel are being extremely lethargic in getting Meego
ready for prime time (especially at a time when Android seems to be sweeping its
way through the market to become the platform of choice).
IMHO, Meego is much more cleaner and 'open' than Android but might not make it
simply because it is slow to move.
cheers,
- steve
[1] http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900
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