This may not seem that interesting at first but Phonegap which is also available to maemo allows developers to quickly migrate mobile apps from one platform to another, see this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWoJfQw79XI&fmt=22

Here is more information about the state of maemo n900 version:
http://blog.mfabrik.com/2009/11/24/p...on-n900-maemo/


So what’s cool about PhoneGap (compared to other mobile application technologies)?

Use low entry level HTML, CSS and Javascript technologies – even PHp coder can build his/her own mobile application!
This is the most cost effective way to develop non-CPU-intensive applications.
PhoneGap has the widest mobile platform support – the best medicine against fragmented mobile application markets
You can always break out from the sandbox and use the native capabilities of the phone.
This is something you cannot do with Flash Lite or Java ME.
Very active community
WebKit rendering engine enables CSS3 goodies and much more
Easily convert your existing mobile site to an application

here is another link, how to get PhoneGap running on Maemo environment
http://blog.mfabrik.com/phonegap-on-maemo/

here is a tutorial
http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials...p-development/

note about iphone sdk, is only available on mac

i will try to to update this thead with more relevant information as i continue to figure out more how to actually get this working... my battles at the moment is to get some of the appropriate sdk's installed,
including the maemo one which i have not yet figure out how to do it.