Thread: Further discussion of Nokia's support for Maemo 5 (was: Nokia finishes Maemo5 support)
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geohsia is offline geohsia
2010-12-10 , 07:16
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#151
Originally Posted by ste-phan View Post
Ok but apart from making the overall experience of Maemo 5 smoother and Nokia official commitment to support and upgrade the OS during another x years?
What are your really missing today?
Well, let's start with the standard Flash 10.1 and Maps 3.x

I am missing a full blown e-mail client. But then again, the N900 has mobile Firefox rendering Zoho mail in full desktop version.
I was just about to mention a good GMAIL client. I travel out of the country a lot and it would be nice to have access to email without having to go through a web client. Firefox for me is still a bit unstable so I am not using it.

The problem is that QT is still very much a moving target so most app developers (US admittedly, don't know about the rest of the world) seem to opt for iOS and Android and not QT.

Would love to see their claims of write once and run just about anywhere come to fruition.

It would also be nice to have state aware apps so that when I close them and open them up again they open in the last place I left. This is particularly useful in Maps. BTW, this works incredibly well on iOS.

I envy the N8's HDMI out. It would be so much more justified on the N900.

Symbian^3 is very new and the "app shop" is full of children stuff.
Let's see if it helps some beautiful QT apps to appear over the next 12 months and then if those apps find their way to the antique N900
The claim has always been that once you write it once for QT, it should be available for every QT supported platform. Why is that not the case? Unless I am wrong about their claims, in that case please help me understand what QT can provide.

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Here's another example. A few days ago, Nokia released this marketing video about a fictitious character navigating effortlessly though social media, interacting with friends and etc. Most of the capabilities exist in some form admittedly but certainly not seemless as is implied. Would love to see them address that with QT and have the same UX for N8 and N900.
Last edited by geohsia; 2010-12-10 at 07:23.