Maemo vs MeeGo

The Nokia N900 users have for long for the requested for a software upgrade, mostly to improve the GPS experience to a standard similar to the one on S60 5th edition smartphones.

The Nokia N900 is the only Nokia smartphone that runs on Maemo 5, so there is little support for it. An upgrade of this platform, is in collaboration with Intel’s Moblin, which has been announced, and it will be MeeGo. The latter system will not be compatible with the N900 (that is, officially from Nokia) due to the requirements of the MeeGo software which the Nokia N900 can’t unfortunately meet.

With the PR1.2 firmware, the email has been upgraded, with the ability to accept or decline an event invitation from the application itself, a Facebook IM client has been supplied with software, as well as video-calling which helps greatly for the Skype users.

A few apps that had portrait limited functionality, has been modified.

The Ovi Maps is the app needs the most improvement which it received only a basic update  in terms of user experience. There is no say of voice guidance for GPS navigation yet.

The Nokia N900 PR 1.2 (V10.2010.19-1) software update is available in selected countries only, with most of the world receiving it in the future. Alternatively, the users may download the image from here, and follow this guide to install it manually.