Maemo 5 and Nokia N900
Ari Jaaksi, Vice President,
Maemo Devices, Nokia

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Where are we now?
What the media said
"...N900 finally gives Nokia something
competitive in the high-end market, and “Beyond that Maemo Linux OS we've
offers a great deal for developers to get been begging Nokia to bring to phones for
excited about. I had a hands on today and the better part of a year, the N900 is, as
came away with fairly positive Nokia handsets tend to be nowadays, a
impressions, for an iPhone user.” healthy piece of hardware.”
"...The N900 is certainly looking
intriguing, and our hands-on earlier today
did nothing to change that opinion.“

But there are things to be worked on
What the media said
"As of today, the portrait setup is
available only for the dialing screen,
contact list, home screen and gallery
(when rotating images). And that's about
it. All in all, this shortcoming definitely
takes a lot of points off Maemo5's tab…”
“We would have assumed Nokia would
have worked multi-touch into this latest
version of its tablet computer, as their
competitors nearly all have this capability
now.”

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