On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Pankaj Nathani <crooz...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Anand, > > >Now let me ask you, if you are starting mobile development today > and given these two phones, which one will you pick ? > > I had choose Symbian over Maemo for now, only for the fact that there is > just one phone device with Maemo on it and other devices to be released are > going to be mobile computers rather than phones. > > Ok. I would opt for N900 cuz I expect the tablet computer/Internet mobile device/smart-phone divisions to blur in the coming years. Most of mobile computing is going to be on such devices and yes Symbian would still run on lower-end phones, but that is not a class of technology I worry about. > > >I might be mistaken here, but PyS60 has been there for some time - > but can you point out at least a few popular applications entirely > developed using it ? I can't find even one good game that has been coded > entirely in PyS60 so far. > > > http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/index.php/Python_Technical_Overview#Sample_Applications > http://croozeus.com/blogs/?page_id=838 > I see you are an avid PyS60 developer :) > Cheers, > Pankaj! > > > > ________________________________ > From: Anand Balachandran Pillai <abpil...@gmail.com> > To: Bangalore Python Users Group - India <bangpypers@python.org> > Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 11:57:52 AM > Subject: Re: [BangPypers] mobile application development > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Pankaj Nathani <crooz...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > > I have to say something here :-) > > > > >Symbian is nearing end-of-life as the chosen platform for smartphones > > for Nokia. > > > > Well, thats not true. Symbian is going to be the platform for smartphone > > development for Nokia. Nothing is stopping them from doing so. > > > > Hmmm...I looked at N97 and N900 specs and apart from better display > (OpenGL) on the latter and the difference in the OS (and perhaps camera > also) there was nothing much to choose from among them. > > Now let me ask you, if you are starting mobile development today > and given these two phones, which one will you pick ? > > > > > > Maemo is target to high end mobile devices - tablets/netbooks, etc. So > you > > will be seeing some products from Nokia on Maemo targeted to such > consumers. > > Maemo and Symbian are never on the same level of competition, remember. > > > > Symbian has its open plan for years ahead - Symbian^1 (already present), > > Symbian^2 (Starting 2010), Symbian^3 (mid 2010) and Symbian^4 (end 2010) > > ahead. Also, the same pattern reflects on Nokia's roadmap - the plan for > > 2010 and ahead from the Nokia's Capital Markets day. > > > > Regarding PyS60, yes its getting better and getting more mobility > > functionalities - it has been ported to core 2.5 and you should be seeing > a > > new release very soon as well. And yes, Python is also supported on > Maemo. > > > > Almost anything that compiles on a Debian and can be ported using > Scratchbox (which is again almost any Linux app) will run on Maemo. > You have a wide choice of platforms to code on - Python, C/C++, > Ruby anything. > > I might be mistaken here, but PyS60 has been there for some time - > but can you point out at least a few popular applications entirely > developed using it ? I can't find even one good game that has been coded > entirely in PyS60 so far. > > > > > > Cheers, > > Pankaj. > > (Croozeus) > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Anand Balachandran Pillai <abpil...@gmail.com> > > To: Bangalore Python Users Group - India <bangpypers@python.org> > > Sent: Thu, December 17, 2009 9:54:42 AM > > Subject: Re: [BangPypers] mobile application development > > > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Anish Kurian <anish...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > you sure can develop mobile applications using python. > > > u can download the SDK for particular group of handset. Nokia S60 > mobiles > > > use PyS60 SDK. Maybe similar ones are available for other handsets. > > > > > > > Symbian is nearing end-of-life as the chosen platform for smartphones > > for Nokia. As you might know N900 was recently released in select markets > > around the world and it runs a fully Debian-derived Linux OS named > > Maemo. I have been reading through N900 and Maemo reviews and > > this looks like disruptive technology. > > > > Symbian is still the largest selling smartphone OS right now, but > > can't stand up to the challenges posed by Android, Web OS etc. > > Symbian is not developer friendly and has stability issues. I am > > looking forward to get my hands on an N900 and hacking on the > > Maemo. > > > > Nokia is betting on Maemo - the only current issue is that it > > is fully GTK based (Hildon/Matchbox) but I read that Nokia > > is planning to bring in QT as a choice to it pretty soon. > > Since Nokia invests a lot in Qt this definitely make a lot > > of sense. > > > > Take a look at N900 and Maemo. It is surely one of the > > directions mobile development will take, the other being > > Android and its clones. > > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:09 PM, pradeep T <itpradeep...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > hi friends, > > > > am a begginer of this language and dont know much. > > > > > > > > Is it possible for me to develop a mobile application using this > > > > language... > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > BangPypers mailing list > > > > BangPypers@python.org > > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > BangPypers mailing list > > > BangPypers@python.org > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > --Anand > > _______________________________________________ > > BangPypers mailing list > > BangPypers@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > BangPypers mailing list > > BangPypers@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > > > > -- > --Anand > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- --Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers