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List:       openzaurus-users
Subject:    Re: [Openzaurus-users] Curious about Open Zaurus...
From:       Hamish Marson <hamish () travellingkiwi ! com>
Date:       2006-05-09 8:42:24
Message-ID: 446055F0.30707 () travellingkiwi ! com
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Scott Bronson wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 16:51 -0700, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
>> Both OpenZaurus and the official Sharp firmware use Qt, so maybe
>> there is a chance your binary could be made portable between the
>> two.
>
> Assuming you've installed the Opie variant.  Problem is, Opie is
> very different from QT4.  If you want to try to share source bases,
> you'd probably find it much easier with GPE/GTK.
>
>
>> You could also consider putting your app on the Nokia 770 webpad.
>> But it's GTK rather than QT.
>
> I agree, the Maemo platform looks pretty hot.
>

Yes. I have one, it's really very nice. Big (800x480) good looking
screen, more memory than my Z had (I had a 5000D), and best of all
built-in BT and 802.11g. It also has a nice hardshell cover to slide
it into to protect the screen that turns the screen off automatically.
And no sleep... Just a low power mode that lasts for a week or more.

The bad points however are lack of CPU (It uses an OMAP processor
which is a bit underpowered) and RS-MMC cards for expansion. I
understand Nokia will address the CPU in the next version. Oh... And
the development environment uses scratchbox. I don't really like
scratchbox, but that's mainly because it doesn't (Didn't? It might now
I guess) work very well on my amd64. And required an older version...

The real downside is that there seems to be a distinct lack of user
comunity for Maemo, like the Z has for talking & problem solving (That
I can find anyway). There's a maemo developer site, but I don't think
it has as many developers as the Z. At least it's not as busy... The
developer docs are outstanding though.

Just a shame I can't get it to use my phone (Also a Nokia) to connect
to the Internet... Some of the error messages are a bit vague...

Hamish.

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