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A source with knowledge of Nokia’s product roadmap let Reuters know that the Finnish giant is planning to launch only one Linux phone in 2010. The Linux OS in Nokia’s case is Maemo and if this is true, Symbian has a fair chance to dominate Nokia’s smartphone portfolio.
But if we see the other way – [...]

 
Nokia had a N900 meetup in London and some executive from the marketing team blurted out that Nokia will drop Symbian from Nseries devices by 2012, which was later debunked by the Finnish company as “completely premature”.
“While it is our policy not to disclose details of our product roadmap, we’d like to explicitly communicate that [...]

 
Nokia also showcased its Maemo 5-powered N900 at the N97 mini unveiling. N900 looks and works much better compared to the Symbian counterparts. The 3.5-inch screen despite being resistive is responsive while its keyboard is nicely spaced out and comfortable to type on. Unfortunately, the chances of this being released in India looks very slim. [...]

 
Nokia showered some love to developers today by announcing the creation of an official Qt port to Maemo 5 platform. This means Qt devs can easily port apps to the Maemo 5 platform that runs Nokia’s N900 device from other Qt supported platforms like Symbian, Windows Mobile and Maemo 6.
The port will make use of [...]

 
Nokia is surely building some excitement for next week’s Nokia World. Its the fourth announcement in four days and today marks an entry of N900, Nokia’s Linux-based Maemo 5 OS. Unlike previous attempts of hiding the processor info, Nokia this time, is boasting the integration ARM Cortex-A8 processor clocked at 600MHz with application memory going [...]

 
Couple of Maemo 5 UI screenshots have been posted online, thanks to Mobile-Review’s honcho Eldar Murtazin. While the Maemo running Nokia’s RX-51 device is expected to be unveiled at the Nokia World, Eldar does give his two cents by saying it as the most impressive device in 2009. Other screenshot shows the keyboard which looks [...]

 
The last two days has been abuzz with Nokia’s Maemo powered Internet tablet, dubbed as Rover. MobileCrunch posted a render instead of an actual image but Cellpassion has managed to give us a pixellated image. The picture looks seemingly real except a few keys missing when compared to the render. Anyways, the device will make [...]