2012 Device Program
Nokia is sponsoring a maemo.org device program consisting of 60 Nokia N9 + 40 Nokia N950 with free delivery.
One of the goals of this program is to help reducing the list of missing apps (or alternatives & related features).
The devices will be distributed through 4 activities:
- 25 devices for the maemo.org Coding Competition.
- 25 devices for the maemo.org Community Awards.
- 25 devices for existing community apps being published at the Nokia Store.
- 25 devices for Qt 5 mobile projects.
75% of these devices should be in the hands of their new owners by the end of June. The Coding Competition runs through the Summer and the prizes will be awarded at the end.
The details of each of these programs are being discussed as we speak. Watch this wiki page and follow the related threads for details and involvement.
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Coding Competition
Community Awards
- Details coming soon.
New Apps @ Nokia Store
Details coming soon. Quim Gil coordinates.
Qt 5 Mobile Projects
Quim Gil coordinates.
The main motivations are mixture of:
- Helping testing Qt 5 itself and providing feedback while it's alpha/beta.
- Helping testing the Qt 5 libraries for the N9.
- Getting stories of real apps ported from Qt 4 to Qt 5. Trivial? Horrible? What are the pain points? And what about Qt Creator and the documentation available?
- Getting developers to play with the new toys: Qt Quick 2, textures, transitions, graphics / video effects, raw OpenGL ES stuff, post-Mobility APIs, the new Qt WebKit, JSON DB, ongoing R&D on PhoneGap own JQuery based experiments...
This is the same motivation we have for the QtonPi program, but for mobile development the N9 provides a touch display and many more sensors and hardware features that a bare bones board is missing.