Developing for Nokia N900

Gian Luca Cioletti

Head, Business Development EMEA

Forum Nokia

Mob: +358503423554

gian-luca.cioletti@nokia.com

Maemo in Nokia’s software strategy

© 2009 Nokia

•Our pinnacle platform for Nokia’s solutions and services

•Creating our flagship experience with deep Ovi service integration

•Offering the most advanced performance and user experience

Computers - user delight and performance• Internet as-is, without

compromises

•Computer grade performance with personal context and mobility

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Developed with communities

Maemo Community has more than 22.000 members and works on over 900 garage projects contributing one way or the other to the evolution of Maemo software.

Maemo Software is developed with the open source community – 80% of code is developed in open source projects.

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Designed to stay connected with what matters most…

..more through the cloud than over the phone.

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… and demand all relevant services be readily available.

For people who do multiple things at once …

GTK+-based apps

3D apps with Open GL ES

Doable now. Ready for future

Cross-platform compatible apps with Qt4.6

Now also as official Qt port for Maemo 5

This week: 2nd technical preview

Sometime in between: beta Final: Q1

2010,runs on Nokia N900

Qt tools for developers• Qt Creator IDE

• An integrated development environment for coding and debugging

• Wraps tools, both Maemo-specific and generic – all available in IDE-agnostic fashion

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Innovating beyond apps

Coming later this year

Get community app to consumers

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