Two month after the Alpha release, Maemo team is out with the beta version of the Maemo 5 SDK. The new version includes a first draft of the Development Manual, a new version of the Modest email client, as well as a frozen API and the basic information and tools developers need to get their applications ready. Moreover, there’s a new example application and desktop widget provided to help developers getting familiar with the new UI style driven by finger touch interfaces.
The developer documentation along with new code examples will be updated regularly independently of new SDK releases…
Finally, those not familiar should know Maemo 5 is the next major release of the Linux platform developed by Nokia in collaboration with some of the best open source community projects. The key features of the Maemo 5 platform include OMAP3 support, HSPA data connectivity, high definition camera support, hardware-based graphics acceleration.