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Why Maemo is a powerful platform? Because of native applications!

I have been thinking what is the major difference of Maemo compared to many other platforms, and I think it is that it offers native Linux for developers. Instead of living in the limitations of javascript, Maemo enables you to do much more and enables...

N900 as modem for Ubuntu 9.10

Today I was thinking...that's been a while no post.Thus here I am showing you how to use your Nokia N900 as a broadband modem with Ubuntu 9.10.It's as easy as connect it via USB and choOse the "PC Suite mode".A Wizard should appear on Ubuntu with few...

Maemo 5 Extras reaches 3.5M downloads

The maemo.org...

MBX/3D drivers out for N8x0 (and other OMAP2)

In other news, the drivers was uploaded to TI extranet yesterday - this is something people have waited for, for a long time. And you need to create a TI (my.ti.com) account for this. For those who want to have access the SDK need to send a mail to...

('html', u'Nokia to ship Qt 4.6 with PR1.2, replace Qt 4.5')

Some welcome news for all Qt on Maemo developers out there: Nokia intends to deploy the currently in Beta Qt 4.6 to all devices via software update — most probably already with the next major update PR1.2. Currently, Qt 4.6 (available from extras-devel)...

Not First MMS sent via N900 (Fremantle)

I've spent the past few days trying to get MMS to work on the N900. EDIT: Seems frals has managed to beat me!

A small present/preview from the developer platform team

The holiday season is here, and we have a small present for you! It’s a tech preview called Madde, a cross-compilation toolkit for Maemo5. Madde runs on Linux, Windows and Mac, choose your...