Nokia phones in 2010

Le_Petit_Lapin · 4 Jan 2010 at 16:35

Xperia's UI is utterly gash though.

Andrew G · 4 Jan 2010 at 17:16

Le_Petit_Lapin said:
Xperia's UI is utterly gash though.

Its running android though you will be able to nob it off for a cooked rom.

knip · 4 Jan 2010 at 20:00

Someone mind telling me what maemo is please?

ajgoodfellow · 4 Jan 2010 at 20:25

It's the operating system used on Nokia's new N900 phone

Have a look here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo

Here's a link to to the phone page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N900

knip · 4 Jan 2010 at 20:31

So its like firefox or IE just on a phone?

ajgoodfellow · 4 Jan 2010 at 20:33

Not really - it's what all of the applications on the phone run on. It's like Android or Windows Mobile. You can compare it to Windows XP on a PC

The default browser on the N900 is (rather confusingly) called the Maemo Browser and this is based on Firefox

knip · 4 Jan 2010 at 20:35

So what does my 5800 run on now, something similar, just not so sophisticated?

ajgoodfellow · 4 Jan 2010 at 20:36

Yes - the Symbian S60 platform - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S60_platform

knip · 4 Jan 2010 at 20:39

Ta, will stop derailing the thread now, take it this maemo thing is meant to be a lot better then?

ajgoodfellow · 4 Jan 2010 at 20:40

Hen_Dawg · 4 Jan 2010 at 23:48

knip said:
Ta, will stop derailing the thread now, take it this maemo thing is meant to be a lot better then?

It's somewhat more powerful, versatile and prettier than the Symbian on the 5800, N95, N97 etc. It's just very young and Maemo 5 is only on this one phone for now

Arterion · 6 Jan 2010 at 02:41

I think that if the Symbian revamp doesn't happen relatively quickly and bring some more stuff to the table Maemo might start to edge in on its territory...at a glance Maemo does seem to be vaguely reminiscent of some incarnations of Symbian, but having played with an N900 it seems to do it better...

Kitchster_uk · 6 Jan 2010 at 10:36

knip said:
Ta, will stop derailing the thread now, take it this maemo thing is meant to be a lot better then?

Putting it into context, S60 is like running Win98se back in the day - newer stuff was available but it's as stable as you like and does what you want. Maemo 5 coming along is like XP being released; it's just better, looks better and uses the hardware better, though it wants more resources to do that. It is a good OS and feels more like a desktop OS than pretty much every other phone I tried, but it probably isn't for everyone at this stage. You don't need linux knowledge but it doesn't ship with a manual either.

Tunney · 6 Jan 2010 at 11:19

Arterion said:
I think that if the Symbian revamp doesn't happen relatively quickly and bring some more stuff to the table Maemo might start to edge in on its territory...

The big revamp (Symbian^4) is coming this year. It's a brand new UI based on Qt. Writing rich, graphics-based applications on Symbian will become a lot easier.