Nokia Maemo

Nokia is a key player on the mobile industry, and yet when I look at its latest phones I still feel I’m holding a 2003 Nokia 6600. Even the icons on the menu look like they have been designed by a pixel artist with 16 colors. Let’s face it Symbian aged badly and while it has become an efficient factory to give a powerful OS at a very low cost, it’s no match for the new generation of Android or iPhone or even Blackberry OSes.
Thus Maemo ! Nokia recently bought Trolltech the company behind QT (mobile linux-based UIs) and is now preparing Maemo for its new upcoming phones, the upcoming N900 being the first one one the list. Below you can find a video of the UI in action and while I think it could still be polished a lot it’s already a nice upgrade from Symbian times.