Details About Maemo 6 – Multitouch, Capacitive Screens, Portrait Mode Support

By - Vaibhav Sharma On 9 October 2009 5 Comments

If you are not following this most excellent liveblog, I recommend you should. According to details about Maemo 6 coming out from the Maemo Summit (via the liveblog) in the keynote by Janne Heikkinen, Director – Maemo Product Planning at Nokia we now know:

Multi-touch is coming to Maemo 6.
So is support for capacitive screens.
The main developer frameworks will be Qt (4.6) for native development and Nokia Web Runtime (WRT).
Nokia will be holding a tech preview of Qt for Maemo 5 today.
The alpha of Qt for Maemo 6 is expected in Q1 2010. Beta in Q2 2010.
The alpha of WRT for Maemo 6 is expected in Q1 2010. Beta in Q2 2010.
The Maemo 6 UI will have a canvas layout for maximum customization/personalization. Widgets everywhere.
There will be full support for portrait and landscape modes of operation.

Maemo 6 UI Concept

Rest as we find out.

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