15 Screenshots From The Leaked Nokia N9 Teaser Reveal A Few Details

We are just 5 days away from the start of the second MeeGo Conference and a very interesting video has just popped up, a promo for Nokia’s first MeeGo device, the N9. The video is nothing more than a teaser, but does manage to reveal a bunch details about the device which may even be called the N950. The only problem is that the OS the phone is running looks a lot like upcoming Symbian releases, right down to the icons, so may be the teaser that Pocket Now has scooped was a work in progress, with the MeeGo parts to be placed in later

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Painting Strategy in MeeGo’s Virtual Keyboard

I’ve never been happy with the conclusion in the influential blog post “Qt Graphics and Performance — The Cost of Convenience” by Gunnar Sletta: If you want performance, downgrade QGraphicsView to a mere canvas with a single QGraphicsItem.

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MoNav routing daemon

/ 0 votes – 1 download Updated 2011-04-14 17:30 UTC – Stable Quality Free & Open Source license Route server for other applications The MoNav Routing Daemon is a service that computes routes on OpenStreet maps. Authors Alberto Mardegan , Dennis Nienhüser Links Homepage

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NAVTEQ announce enhanced indoor navigation maps

NAVTEQ, the Nokia-owned company behind Ovi Maps, have announced a new product called “Destination Maps”, which aims to provide the data that would enable guidance services inside public buildings. Initially, the data will cover more than 200 shopping malls in the U.S.

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Google Latitude and Buzz

/ 1 vote – 29 downloads Updated 2011-02-16 18:15 UTC – Stable Quality Free & Open Source license Google Latitude and Buzz Client Google Latitude Updater is written in QT4. Features: – Retrieve location using Cell Tower and send to Google Latitude – View Location of Friends – View Buzz of Friends – View and Search on Google Maps – Run as Daemon Author Rodrigo Linfati Links Homepage

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Community SSU features to look forward to

I’ve been writing some patches for hildon-desktop (the window manager on Maemo 5). For some of the more useful ones, I’ve reworked them to be configurable via transitions.ini (and disabled by default), so they can be merged into the Community SSU .

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Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 14 Feb 2011

Front Page Nokia make Windows Phone their strategic smartphone OS The news has been everywhere, including the BBC television bulletins: Nokia are abadonning hopes of owning the entirety of their stack and the board – led by CEO Stephen Elop – has decided to partner with Microsoft. The main reasons cited are Nokia's lack of ability to deliver a next generation mobile OS, and an ecosystem to go with it

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Confusions of a Maemo Enthusiast (Post 2/11)

I have been with Maemo since 2007, when I purchased the fabulous N800 Internet Tablet. It stayed with me through Chinook, Diablo and even through the ‘Elephanta year’.

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Drawing up a roadmap

One of the most important documents a project can have is some kind of elaboration of what the maintainers want to see happen in the future. This is the concrete expression of the project vision – it allows people to adhere to the vision, and gives them the opportunity to contribute to its realisation. This is the document I’ll be calling a roadmap.

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marble-maps

/ 0 votes – 11 downloads Updated 2011-02-05 14:00 UTC – Stable Quality Free & Open Source license Additional maps for marble (earth and moon) OpenStreetMap derived map themes, educational map themes, satellite map themes, themes for other planets. Authors Bastian Holst , Dennis Nienhüser , Torsten Rahn Links Homepage

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