1. In 2002, I met Ivan, AKA Asjas, in a little workshop about Linux in handhelds. We were discussing about if someday a company could create a Linux based handheld for consumer market.
2. Months later, we travelled to give a talk in a national OpenSource congress about Linux in handheld devices (photo). There is the rumour that the boy who created maemo name was in the conference room.
3. In 2006, Ivan and me gave a talk about Maemo. Some months before, I had shown my 770 to Ivan (a boy who didn’t have even a phone) and we talked about Python possibilities on it. So, there we were talking about Maemo platform.
4. In 2009, during AsturLiNUX anniversary celebration, I have had the pleasure to introduce Ivan’s talk about Maemo platform (photo), since he was one of the invited celebrities

And during all this time friendship still remains. So yes, at the end, it is all about people and friends. Thank you friends!

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1. PyMaemo installed
2. sympy downloaded
3. 
[sbox-FREMANTLE_X86: ~] > python2.5
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Mar 27 2009, 18:30:12)
[GCC 4.2.1] on linux2
Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.
>>> from sympy import *
>>> x,y,z = symbols(’xyz’)
>>> Plot(x*y**3-y*x**3)


And here is the result:

Who wants to create a powerful scientific calc for Maemo 5?

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• OMAP3 based
• 4.1″ LCD WVGA LCD
• keypad
• accelerometers
• etc…

But one of the funniest thing is that it has a capacitive touchscreen! Many people have told me that iphone/ipod touch devices are better because their capacitive screens, but finally we will see a symbian phone using same hardware technology.

Now the question are:

• Will Maemo be supported too by Zoom2? (at least Linux is supported)
• Or even better, how similar are new Maemo5 based devices to Zoom2? I hope not too much, because this development platform starts from $1150!! (maybe because the debugging parts and the 8MP camera!)

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Congratulations to the Maemo team!!

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I’ve seen this in a post from Unwired about Secrets at Mobile World Congress 2009. There is even a mockup for the device and it seems very promising. If someone understand Russian, extra info can be found on Eldar Murtazin’s blog

Ok, ok, most of us are still waiting for next Maemo based devices that are surely being already tested (I envy testers), but it is always good knowing that Nokia is working on the future (even if it is only for internal research), and since there weren’t many news about Maemo in MWC09, rumors keep us alive

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There is more info in GSM Areana website… Time for rumors until Nokia press releases something.

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• Explaining what a Maemo device is: Dispositivo móvil de acceso a internet (youtube video)
• Explaining Elisator: Detección de animales enfermos (youtube video)

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I’ve tested it, and it looks nice, but I miss a lot of mathematical features. I hope I could join the project somehow, because I have several ideas about how this can be improved

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Now they release the best phone ever: the Nokia N97. But do not tell me you maemo lovers that the concept of that phone does not remind you of our beloved N770, N800 and N810.

Of course, we maemo (and, in general, Linux) freaks are waiting for the promising evolution of the N810 and the next step of our favourite mobile OS (maemo Fremantle) and, if we find the money, we will buy it. But it is not a phone, while the N97 is… and besides, it also has a touch screen (with more resolution), it also has HSDPA access (as the next Nokia MID will have), it also has a QWERTY keyboard… and it will also allow to run an open-source OS.

What do you OMAG people and rest of the maemo community think about that? Feedback wanted

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• It seems that Ovi is the great services strategy for Nokia for next year, so I suppose that any new NSeries device will integrate these services (specially after seeing Niklas Savander keynote)
• The N97 user interface might be showing some ideas about what can we expect from new Maemo user interface
• New Maemo devices will be OMAP3 based, but it seems that N97 comes with other processor (Unconfirmed)

And some regrets after all. I’ve seen/hear a lot of time the word open in the presentations but:

• There isn’t yet a Nokia PC Suite for open operating systems
• The Nokia Ovi Maps site ask me to use a right web browser, when it should ask me to use other operating system, to download an .exe file

And this event has left a great keynote, the one from Ray Hammond, and a great quote from Anssi Vanjoki:

I want to surf the entire internet, not just some pieces of the internet

Me too, but my desktop computer is not the same that my mobile computer, so I can’t expect the same user experience in both machines, but I can expect an optimized user experience for the context I am using my computer (whatever my computer or context are). But, that’s another story…

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The user, although having a full-web browser, ends up using a simpler mobile version for the browser not to drain battery power (for instance, due to the Javascript engine making intensive use of the CPU in Facebook or in Google Reader). The Google Reader site is a good example of how the mobile version is good enough for us to do what we want with almost no cost in computational terms.

I have always loved visiting Spanish sports online-newspapers like As or Marca from the N810, but always making an exercise of injecting patience to my state of mind before accessing: they are filled with Flash content (mainly with advertising purposes) that makes loading the main page as painful as a kick on your butt.

Some days ago, I specifically searched for some sort of Flash blocker, taking into account that such an add-on exists in Firefox and that maemo’s microb is based on the Firefox engine. I discovered the Browser Extras repository and then found a Flashblocker port for MicroB.

Using Flashblocker has changed a 100% CPU into an idle CPU when browsing those sites I mentioned, and I can spend the whole weekend fluently browsing for sports results and with no care about the gadget’s battery.

Thanks to Andre Pedralho for such a great job. I encourage you to read the Maemo Browser Extras web page and install the Browser Extras repository for maemo which will give you access to other stuff like the User Agent Switcher or AdBlock.

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• there are real passionate hackers working in Maemo and not just talking about the Nokia guys but also about the people from third parties
• new device is comming, but, one of the real improvements for Maemo platform will be the set of tools (SDK, docs, help mechanisms,…) that will be released
• The community and the open philosophy behind it could make Maemo the best open environment for mobile world, but it could also be the major challenge for Nokia to achieve the success they are expecting with these devices
• Many demos about how to run a complete Debian based distribution in actual hardware, but hey guys, do you expect OpenOffice.org to be usable in your device? But it could be useful…
• One last thing for developers, you will be able to do nice things with 3D animations, but don’t use it for the gallery but for user experience improvement

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• like the one on 16th November 2002 in Madrid. Easy to remember because it was my birthday and my friends gave me a cap signed by people like Miguel de Icaza or Juan Tomas. I can still remember Miguel’s face when I showed him an iPAQ 3130 with GPE inside
• or like the one during “2006 Free Software in Asturias Congress” presenting Maemo platform, with the help of a friend, a friend that already in 2002 was impressed about what Linux could do in a small iPAQ. I still remember the first time I talked to him about Maemo platform and convinced him to start developing for it,… Do yo know where do this friend works now?

So, yes, this Maemo Summit could be an interesting experience…

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