It was just a matter of time till we, the SymbianWorld team, will jump on the Maemo train. And as we couldn’t  cover Maemo here on SymbianWorld we decided to start a Maemo blog. The name was obvious and so we started MaemoWorld. Just like on SymbianWorld we try to deliver news, N900 downloads, tutorials and more with MaemoWorld. However, this doesn’t mean that we will neglect this blog. Thus, please stay tuned here on SymbianWorld and visit us on MaemoWorld.

Today, at its annual Capital Markets Day event, Nokia set key targets and forecasts for the company and its industry for 2010. Senior company executives outlined how Nokia’s focus on execution combined with its core competitive advantages, position the company to achieve and sustain broad-based success in the mobile devices market. At the event, Nokia also demonstrated significant improvements to its forthcoming version of the Symbian user interface. Read the rest of this entry »

Nokia today released Qt 4.6, the latest version of the cross-platform application and UI framework. The Qt SDK provides everything you need to develop web-enabled desktop, mobile and embedded applications and UIs. It includes the Qt cross-platform application framework and the Qt Creator cross-platform IDE. Featuring new platform support, powerful new graphical capabilities and support for multi-touch and gestures, Qt 4.6 makes developing advanced applications for Symbian, Maemo, and other platforms even easier. Read the rest of this entry »

When Nokia was announcing the Nokia N900 they automatically started an internal battle and a big discussion. Now, this discussion seems to reach its peak.  According to Maemo’s Marketing Team, Symbian will not power any high-end Nseries devices by 2012.  Instead, Nokia will use Maemo to run all flagship devices. Thus it seems that Nokia is dropping Symbian and that Symbian is doomed to dead. However,  I would not call it so, rather Nokia is expanding its portfolio and reorienting themself. Without a doubt, Symbian is old and not as fresh as Maemo and Android. Nevertheless, Symbian is running as stable as no other OS does. Other than that Symbian^4 is just arround the corner which is ways fresher and younger.  Nokia said that they are indeed following a multiplatform strategy and that Symbian is aimed for the mass marked while Maemo really focus on the tech-savy audience. So they are offering the customer a bigger choice and can address even more people.