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2008-12-15 , 13:21
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I see Maemo as a Nokia research project. Symbian is open sourced because of Nokia's experience with Linux and open source; IOW Maemo. Trolltech is also related to that.

Nokia E90 is landscape yes, but totally different resoltion. Nokia E90 keyboard has nothing to do with this. It is ancient stemming from older Nokia 9000 series. Its just a Nokia Communicator rebranded as E-series. It is a clamshell; the Pandora will be a bit like this because its also a clamshell. But with touch. Like Sharp Zaurus c7x0/c1000/c3x00... but a lot faster.

The N97 keyboard slides out, and if its slided out it makes the device stand in the same way the N8x0 series does.

Applets are very useful for user customized, default information gathering. On Maemo they've experimented with this as well, and will build upon this further in both devices. The 770 and N8x0 are Nokia's first commercial devices with touch screen capabilities. It'd be unwise to not learn from these experience, while at the same time learn from competitors who also use touch screen capabilities (so you will see things inspired by e.g. iPhone as well).

The desire for memory has been around from long before. Hardly learned from the N8x0.
But not on-board a lot + microSD, or on-board not much but with SD. So that is what can be learned from N800 -> N810.

The N900 is undoubtedly taken from the n8x0. So saying that the N900 and N97 are developed in parallel, just seems inconsistent with saying the N97 learned from the N8x0.
Their target release date are 2009Q1 and 2009Q2. N900 learns from N8x0 but also aspects you've never seen in Nokia Internet Tablets but with which Nokia has a lot of experience in their smartphone lines. Now, if you take into account the N97 similarities. Would you argue the N97 looks more like N96, or more like N8x0? To me, it seems like its definetely gotten aspects from both.

The name 'NIT' is abandoned. Qt will be a bridge between Symbian and Maemo. Symbian is open sourced. I believe there is a lot of reflection back and forth internally, and it won't become less. We'll see with Harmattan brining the official Qt bridge. The question is rather: how much is it now.

Before the N97, there had already been a mid-ranged Symbian S60 model with the compass called the 6210 Navigator. Sorry; its a commody feature that, like TV-Out and 5mpx cameras, will be diffused throughout Nokia's lineup to enable connectivity to services that would best take advantage of such hardware.
Yes, that is stated in the article, but that is also their primary navigation device. So that aspect is learned from that (it is worth the price). But it is new all these devices will contain TV-Out.
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