Nokia's Maemo user interface (which runs on the Linux operating system) was designed for their pocket-sized internet tablets, the Nokia 770 and N800. However, the latest version of the UI for upcoming tablets "will be also runnable on desktop Linux", according to one of Nokia's Maemo team. You can see some photos of the UI in action on an apparently standard Linux PC here and here.
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are you kidding? i wouldnt want anything in this world BUT to have symbian on my pc!!!
jojosalami wrote:i wouldnt want anything in this world BUT to have symbian on my pc!!!
Right... That would be a severely limited computer experience :laugh:
Anyway, I only wish the E90 was running Linux too... *sigh* :dontknow:
Somebody has run Maemo UI on a Linux PC, as a proof of concept. As Maemo is based on Linux, running it on PC Linux is no huge feat. This has nothing to do with Nokia expanding into PC world.
"Somebody has run Maemo UI on a Linux PC, as a proof of concept. As Maemo is based on Linux, running it on PC Linux is no huge feat. This has nothing to do with Nokia expanding into PC world."
When the photos of Maemo running on a desktop were published in February it did seem that it was just Nokia showing off what they could do with Maemo.
The thing that made this interesting and newsworthy was when the blogger (one of Nokia's Maemo team) said a few days ago that they are going to give a talk about "running the Maemo UI as your desktop" at a developers' conference:
This is an upcoming unreleased version of Maemo that they're running on a PC. They're showing this PC-compatibility feature off pre-release, which makes it seem that Nokia want people to use the new version on a PC for some reason.
I agree that Nokia's pretty unlikely to enter the PC world, but what exactly do they have in mind with something like this?
krisse wrote:This is an upcoming unreleased version of Maemo that they're running on a PC. They're showing this PC-compatibility feature off pre-release, which makes it seem that Nokia want people to use the new version on a PC for some reason. I agree that Nokia's pretty unlikely to enter the PC world, but what exactly do they have in mind with something like this?
The answer is most likely "nothing". It is a neat demo which, as I understand things, has been an initiative from somebody in the Maemo team, rather than some plan from Nokia as a whole. It is certainly worthy a talk at the developers' conference, but not particularly useful to normal people. First of all, it is Linux-specific and nobody but developers and sysadmins runs Linux. Secondly, the UI itself is designed for tablets rather than desktop. On a desktop, it is going to look like a kiosk, flashy, but limited.