Maemo 3.0 ‘bora’ Released

Maemo 3.0 supports software development for the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet handheld with Internet Tablet OS 2007 Edition.

Highlights of the new release:

• New improved maemo-installer script that makes installing
      the maemo 3.0 SDK effortless.
        
• New libraries to provide access to terminal features: Camera,
  Hildon input methods, Address book, UPNP, Alarms, GPS, and more …
• New Single Click Application Installation feature is supported in Nokia N800.
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• SDK rootstraps for both ARMEL and i386 architectures
    that support software development for Nokia N800 Internet Tablet and OS
    2007.
• Updated documentation: porting guide, maemo tutorial,
    updated API documentation, new how-to documents to cover
    features like Nokia N800 Camera, Alarm interface and
    more

        

Notes for developers

• maemo 3.0 requires Scratchbox Apophis R4 or later
• the Gnu- toolchain is the same than in maemo 2.X
• New flasher-3.0 software for N800 and Nokia 770
• Nokia Binaries are now delivered and installed with the new installer script maemo-sdk-nokia-binaries_3.0.sh

Source: Maemo

For all you developers out there, get me VLC and Firefox on this thing already!