Video highlights include web browsing, gestures, dashboard widgets and multiple screens.

If you want to know more about the software, read our article entitled “What is Mamo?“

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Based on the Debian operating system, the Maemo 5 (also known as Fremantle) is a linux software platform developed for smartphones and internet tablets developed by Nokia. This open-source code software derives its graphical user interface (GUI), frameworks and libraries from the GNOME project.

The Maemo’s interface can be manipulated in different ways. You can use the directional pad of the phone or, for the reason why it was invented, use touch interface. The Maemo 5 can also recognize handwriting and other gestures. This is the next step in touch-interface tablet technology.

Maemo 5 gives the user four (4) desktops similar to the Spaces feature on the Apple Mac OS X. These desktops can be customized with different backgrounds, shortcuts and widgets. Widgets are little applications running on the desktop. Basic widgets include a clock, calendar, news and notes. You may add or subtract any widget on your desktop. By swiping the screen, you can move from one desktop to another.

A breakthrough in Nokia web technology is the inclusion of a Mozilla (Firefox) based MicroB web-browser that comes with Adobe Flash and can display websites in a 800 x 480 display resolution. Compared to previous version of the built-in Nokia web browser, this is a breath of fresh air.

The following formats are supported by the Maemo 5 software:

• Video: MPEG-1, MPEG-4 ASP (H.263), RealVideo, AVI, 3GP
• Audio/playlists: MP3, RealAudio, MPEG-4, AAC, WAV, AMP, MP2, AMR, AWB, M4A, WMA. OGG/Vorbis (requires addon package), M3U, PLS
• Image/Animation: JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, PNG, SVG Tiny, ICO
• Text/layout: text files, PDF, HTML.

Your Nokia N900 will include this very powerful Operating System, which is said to be open and available for people to use and create new applications. If it does perform the way it is written, then Apple does have good competition in the lucrative mobile phone market.

For more information about Maemo, visit their official website at http://maemo.org/