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Maemo 3.0 ‘bora’ Released

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By: , IntoMobile
Sunday, January 14th, 2007 at 11:07 PM

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.
      Read more…
          
  • 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!

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Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.