Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 6th Feb 2009 02:46 UTC
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless PureMobile sent us in the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic for a review, the first Symbian OS smartphone with S60 5.0 in it to date. This impressive-looking smartphone looks like a darling touchscreen phone, but is it really? Read on for more.
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RE[3]: S60 software - Maemo
by jabbotts on Fri 6th Feb 2009 12:55 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: S60 software"
jabbotts
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2007-09-06

There is always Maemo. With the next version, they are opening all the binary blobs formerly closed in version 4 and previous. It may avoid the very real possibility of a fork and will allow a few long outstanding "features" to be fixed.

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RE[4]: S60 software - Maemo
by VZsolt on Fri 6th Feb 2009 13:05 in reply to "RE[3]: S60 software - Maemo"
VZsolt Member since:
2008-10-31

...on the new tablets only. Fremantle runs on OMAP3, doesn't it?

I'm more interested in when Qt will take over and deprecate the whole S60 chaos. Wishful thinking, ain't it?

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RE[5]: S60 software - Maemo
by _txf_ on Fri 6th Feb 2009 14:32 in reply to "RE[4]: S60 software - Maemo"
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2008-03-17

they are porting Qt to s60 and symbian. So they still plan on using it. symbian is still a great phone os, it's just userspace and the c++ dialect that sucks.

Bear in mind that there is a posix compatibility lib for s60 (which the Qt people are also using for their port).

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