Non-Nokia Maemo devices?
 

So Tim Samoff said: "...we already know that there are plans for non-Nokia Maemo devices." http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=174

I didn't know this and suspect others don't as well. Can we include comments on such topic in this thread? I, for one, would like to see Maemo licensed to other OEMs.

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I had no idea. Maybe there's hope.

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Well, Maemo 5 runs on a Beagle Board, so make your own assumptions. ;)

Tim

P.S. I.e., my statements are my own assumptions and not based on anything but that.

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then in what sense do "we" "know" that there are such plans?

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I think the Beagle Board stuff goes back to the summit last year: Nokia knew it'd be ages before Rover saw the light of day, so encouraged platform hackers to try the Beagle - and knew they were using it internally initially as well.

There was a very key comment from Ari Jaaksi at OSiM World saying that Nokia had no interest in licencing Maemo to other hardware manufacturers. But then he also argued - many moons ago - that two devices were better than one ;-)

I'll be very surprised if any other hardware manufacturer announces a separate Maemo device; but then I'm mostly surprised at the smaller, thicker, it's-a-phone Rover. So take my surprise ratings with a pinch of salt!

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From the Maemo standpoint, I feel the beagleboard being more of a poor man's Maemo dev/demo board, not a 'real' target device. So yes, it can/will get hacked to run Maemo, but isn't any more of a Maemo device than any other OMAP3 device you can actually put stuff on - like the Overo Water or Fire

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I think Mer will be the Maemo we see on other devices. It's already been ported to the Moses SmartQ 5, some PocketLoox thingy and any x86 platform.

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I hope someone makes good use of the beagle board. I want a bunch of really cool maemo powered stuff. :D