You may ask yourself what Maemo 5 news has to do in a mobile blog but bear with me. The new Maemo 5 Beta SDK is out along with all sort of manual and developer guidelines for building widgets and stuff. The new Maemo 5 operating system adds support for OMAP3 CPUs, HSPA data connectivity (3.5G networks that is), High definition camera support and hardware-based graphics acceleration. If you’re still following, Nokia once announced that it’s bringing Linux to its new high end models some time in the future. Not any kind of linux but their own flavor of Linux.
Maemo and Maemo 5 is built with support from Nokia. Older, Maemo versions named OS2008 are powering devices such as Nokia N800 and N810. Now with cellular network support, faster processors and HD camera support, Maemo 5 looks very tempting as a replacement OS on a high end Nokia device. Oh, don’t let me started with widgets, Ovi store and how beautifully all these fit with the N97 multimedia computer concept, Nokia pushes so hard.
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