There are efforts to port apps into Harmattan, including a current one offering developers a N9 or N950 reward once they publish an app from another OS to the N9's OVI store. But from the sound of things, it is not an easy process, so a mass port of Symbian apps is probably not in the cards.

Openmobile's ACL, OTOH, would transform the N9's app experience overnight. Plus, many 3rd party developers only code for iOS and Android. Also, the newest and most feature rich versions of apps go to Android and iOS first, frequently leaving us with outdated versions, if we are lucky enough to get anything at all.

This can definitely be done--look at how well the Nitroid for Meego effort is going. If/when the ACL makes it to the N9, we will, without question, have the strongest app platform that Nokia has ever produced. And that can only be good news, IMHO. But if it's not your kind of thing, just don't download it. No harm done.

Sweden lost to England yesterday...but now I have new hopes for ACL on my N9 instead! It's good that we're letting them now how much we would love to have ACL on N9.

I hope everyone posts something in the thread at their web page or send them an email. Let's keep the dream alive.

Given the software demos of the ACL working and Openmobile's statements regarding active development of an N9 solution, what is the basis of the pessimism? We've been waiting on this for some time, but the news has never been better.

They demoed hardware accelerated flash 11 on the N900 first, before any droid device.

They demoed alien dalvik on the N900 first.

They demoed sygic aurora on the N900 first.


I am sure ACL will be along any minute now.

The idea of ACL strengthens the Android ecosystem and weakens the native harmattan ecosystem (because people may no longer develop things that are already available via ACL). I see no benefit. There is a reason why I don't use my Android phone....

If I wanted crappy Android apps on my phone I have bought a damn Android device instead. If it even works it will be slow and eating CPU because android is bloated.. Then people will cry about "how bad HW N9 has"

So no this is not "excellent news"

Excelent news is when we get Qt5 from the FOSS community. And hopefully a last update PR1.3 from Nokia.

Please move this thread to Android fanboys subforum.

is your qt5 going to bring me a commercial blanking app by chase to deposit my checks by taking its picture? Let me guess no so yeah the point stands.

If I go to the android market on a device with a 800*600 screen, and download angry birds, it will work and will be properly scaled.

If I then go and buy angry birds in the android market on a device with a 1280*720 screen, it will be scaled properly.

The developers of android apps knows that there are MANY different resolutions using Android, therfore they program the apps to support all the known Android resolutions.

The N9's resolution is going to be one of the many supported android resoltuions meaning the apps will scale correctly.


TBH developers would benefit from this as they would get a few thousand more people buying their apps! Its not like we will be able to go and buy paid apps for free. We will just have access to the Android/Amazon Market and will be able to download and install free apps, as well as purchase the paid ones.

Meaing Google will also get money from app sales, so no real reason for them to hate, also theres no legality issues as Android is mostly open sourced, meaning legally this can work.

As for porting Symbian, nobody wants an OS that has been designed for buttons and then just messed with for touch support on our N9's... Also Symbian apps are not the focus for developers so we would ONLY get the old apps, and none of the new games/streaming services/social apps.

This will (if it happens) make our N9's pretty much the perfect device as App's is probably the largest area the N9 is lacking.

Things like Instagram, a DECENT Facebook and Twitter app, updated Firefox with the UI or even Chrome Browser, BBC iPlayer ect..

at least a phone made to make a call, come on love your N9 whatever happened, lack of apps? You can use Nitdroid, just saying, XD

its not going to happen...ACL is a fud just to show proof of concept...sad but true...