Orbit for Symbian ^4 discontinued; Symbian ^4 replaced by incremental updates

As recent news stated Symbian ^4 will not be released but instead updates will be released for Symbian ^3 and the platform will evolve into what should have become Symbian ^4 at some point.

Also stated in the comments on conversations.nokia.com is that Orbit Ui (Ui Extensions for mobile) (Uiemo) has been discontinued in favour of native Qt and Qt Quick.

I don’t know what to think about this yet but at least there are not two competing Frameworks for Ui development anymore (Meego Touch Framework and Orbit).

 

Maemo PR 1.3, still no new Ovi maps for N900, Meego Video

Hi!

Just a short status update on some infos/vids/… that I recently found on the web:

• There’s a possibility of  a PR 1.3 for Maemo (see: maemo forum)
• Ovi Maps 3.06 Beta has been released and features some nice things – but it still does not support the N900 -.-
• Meego seems to be progressing quite nicely – at least it seems to work MUCH better than the snapshots I tried two or three weeks ago: see this vid (chinese sound)
• the Nokia N8 and the E7 look REALLY good – even if they are Symbian – but Symbian ^3 is already a BIG step forward in comparison to Symbian ^1 as shipped with the Nokia 5800 – and it of course features all those nice things which other platforms (maemo) are still lacking – like full PC Suite support, …

That’s about it from the technical side… Beside of that there were some interesting private developments but those are to be asked in private 😉

Cya next time

PS: I’m really proud of myself – never before kept blogging that long in a row 🙂