First non-Nokia Maemo device announced: Optima OP5-E
While the world waits with bated breath to see what will become of Symbian in the hands of the Symbian Foundation, another Nokia-owned OS is the talk of the town today: Maemo. Maemo has a home on only three devices that are currently available — the Nokia 770, Nokia N800 and Nokia N810 Internet Tablets. These MIDs haven’t been very well received by consumers so we find it a bit curious that China-based electronics house Optima would choose to go a similar route. The OP5-E does boast much better specs than Nokia’s Tablet trio however: 5.6 x 2.9 x 0.69 inch frame, 806MHz Marvell PXA320 CPU, 128MB RAM, 256MB ROM, microSDHC support, 4.3-inch WVGA resistive touchscreen, GPS, EV-DO, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, a 3.2-megapixel camera and a 2600 mAh battery. The saving grace may very well be the fact that this MID is said to have phone and SMS functionality coming in the future, likely meaning it will be upgradable to Maemo 5. Maemo fans looking for a new fix might be interested in checking it out but we’re holding out for Maemo 5 and the seemingly sexy N900 before we bother playing with Maemo again. Hit the jump for more shots.
[Via Pocketables]
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MID’s haven’t been well received however I do think that people underestimated these devices. It’s just amazing how much you can do with a Nokia N810, but its only default I think was its lack of 3G capability. I guess this will all be fixed when the N900 gets released, so guys you might definitely want to keep an eye on this one.
I know I’ve seen this design somewhere before…but for the life of me I can’t remember where?
I wonder how many more OEMs will make Maemo devices? This is going to be great if Maemo takes off with a couple more manufacturers. The N900 will be amazing.
These MIDs have always piqued my interest but exactly what can these devices do that a good smartphone can’t?
Since it is a flavor of Linux, it can run much more robust software, there’s a much bigger developer community, and porting stuff to it will be easy since it supports the Qt framework for cross platform compatibility.
This is no different than an Unbuntu laptop, basically, which is a good thing.
I love the size. Wished the N97 were as big. No qwerty??