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Developing QuickFlickr for N950

Sunday, August 7th, 2011

I had a little break of developing Qt stuff, but after receiving N950 from Nokia, I decided to continue with QuickFlickr development. The original target HW for QuickFlickr has always been Nokia’s next “linux phone”. Even though, Nokia kindly gave me two Symbian devices, I never got so excited to do development on Symbian platform/devices.

I also feel responsible for continue my Qt Ambassador project (I need to update the project page. It’s so out-of-date) too, so here I am now, with a one preview video where QuickFlickr runs quite smoothly on N950. Let’s watch it first:)

The video above is quite heavily edited because the lack of my video shooting skills. With editing I mean that I did stupid things while shooting the video so I cut few clips away.

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My First Touch To Windows Phone 7.x

Friday, May 27th, 2011

Yesterday I was attending to Windows Phone Developer event organized by Microsoft in Helsinki. The place was crowded, there was about 600-700 developers around Finland. For me, it was bit weird event because usually when I have attended to developer events or conference there are always familiar faces, but not this time. Maybe the reason for this is that, this event was organized by Microsoft, not Nokia, Intel or Linux Foundation.

The purpose of the event was clear – Microsoft needs more Windows Phone developers and the next version of Windows Phone 7.1, code name Mango, will be mature enough to get more developer volume. Naturally, Nokia and Microsoft deal 2/11 means that they will have a solid developer foundation here in Finland too.

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Thoughts about Nokia, Microsoft and Qt

Saturday, February 12th, 2011

This is yet another blog post about the announcement of Nokia and Microsoft. I felt, I want to share my thoughts about it, but  first let’s put here a nice picture which tells more than 1000 words.

The future of Nokia? Microkia?

Mr Elop’s Memo

Before the official announcement of Nokia and Microsoft collaboration, someone leaked Mr. Elop’s memo and it gained pretty much publicity. When I read the memo, I was surprised, how much I shared the same opinions with Mr. Elop. I’ve seen how things work internally in Nokia and I truly believe that it’s time for doing some serious reorganizations inside Nokia. Actually it should have been happened years ago.

But I can’t emphasize too much that I  disagree with Mr. Elop how things ended up. Actually I’m not sure who gets most out of this deal, because Nokia stock value dropped pretty much after the announcement.

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Promoting RdUX

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Now that MeeGo is a hot topic, I think it’s time to introduce RdUX – the Revolutionary Device User eXperience. So you might ask that what the heck is the RdUX and how it is related to MeeGo. Well it’s related on Meego in that way, it runs on Intel Atom based Moblin (Moblin Core from Moblin Netbook 2.1) device, which has a 7″ touch screen supporting multitouch. The other thing how it is related on MeeGo is, that it is fully based on Qt, the official MeeGo UI Toolkit.

Why do I want to promote RdUX here, is because I think it’s pretty cool to show of what guys that I’m working with made in six weeks (including linux driver development for multitouch support). Window management of RdUX uses OpenGL and it introduces pretty smooth user interface for interacting with applications. It uses gestures quite heavily and it introduces also custom gestures. Check the next video where you can see examples of basic interactions (the introduction is bit too long, but it might be worth to listen that):

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Maemo 6 and Concerns of the Community

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Maemo community members have expressed their concern of Maemo 6 UI Framework and Nokia strategy related on code compatibility and differences between Maemo 6 and Symbian DirectUI/Orbit frameworks. There are at least two threads in maemo.org and one thread in symbian.org that have ongoing discussion of these topics. You can check them from the links below. Please, let me know if you know more threads related on this topic and feel free to comment if you disagree on someting.

I think some of the community members have made a good a point in the discussions and some of the comments are irrelevant. My point here is that there are seeds of truth in these threads. What is this article for then? I decided to write little bit about this topic, refer to some of the comments in those threads and raise couple of issues that should be taken into consideration.

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