Thread: Maemo 5 vs Android 3.0
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2011-01-12 , 02:03
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#21
Originally Posted by craftyguy View Post
******** on the maps.

There is nothing that is even close to Google maps application on Maemo 5 (and there most-likely never will be). If all of the developers of all the Maemo mapping apps joined forces, they may have a chance. The thing is, there's a whole team of developers at Google working on this, and it just works, beautifully. Local searching, fast (and accurate) routing, etc.

Again, there's nothing even close to this on Maemo. Sadly, it's the only feature I really miss from my old 1st gen iphone when I moved to the N900 over a year ago (and it didn't even have GPS, but was somehow more accurate than Ovi maps w/ GPS!!)
Maps: Modrana.
It has routing (only online, but with help of routino it will get offline soon, too).

It pronounces routing aloud with espeak.

It can use wide range of tiles, map or satellite; it can overlay map and satellite with custom transparency; it can use OpenStreetMaps, and it allows easy correction of any errors in map data you can encounter.

It can create GPS logs and points-of-interest.

It's highly customisable and quickly evolving.


Browsers:
Opera (have never used it, not even on desktop)
MicroB (not that bad, just out-of-date and with too small number of extensions)
Fennec (quickly evolving; a bit slow due to being developed from desktop Firefox and having some memory leaks; there is continuous hunt for them; a lot of extensions being developed, though it's tiresome to update them for each new version of Fennec);
Chromium (have to install on N900 yet; should be fast; "extensions" are a joke)

And, I don't use Flash at all.

The home screen:
Is pretty customisable on Maemo, and I haven't tried to hack it yet (change size of shortcuts and bookmarks, create bookmarks with only text/only icon, etc).
And I don't use Queen Beacon widgets yet.

GMail:
I haven't tried it, but I would think there is an extension for Fennec
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/addon/216008/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/addon/162066/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/addon/53308/
I'm afraid these addons aren't up-to-date, though

Notifications
I like the way Maemo has top left corner highlighted when there is a new message

Task switching
Maemo is the best

Video chat
When will it be possible to use the main 5Mpx camera for it?
Use TV-out or Bluetooth paired screen or USB to transmit received video to another screen.

Verdict:
Improve what you have, and it will stay the best.

I did not talk the games because I don't play them (except for chess or puzzle master sometimes).
I did not talk youtube because I rarely watch it even on desktop.
youtube-dl and cutetube seem to be good applications, by the way.
 

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