On 12/15/2012 11:00 AM, Raju Bitter wrote:
I've asked the same question in the #mer chatroom yesterday, but didn't
get an answer. I'm looking into buying a developer board which can be
used for Sailfish OS development. I'm specifically interested in working
on the UI layer of Sailfish and NemoMobile, and until the SDK is out I'm
preparing myself to get up-to-speed developing Qt based mobile apps and UIs.
I just got my Nokia N9 yesterday (very cool device, extremely cool!!),
but it seems that a developer board would be the better choice for
Sailfish at the moment.
I'm going to create Wiki pages describing how to get started developing
for NemoMobile and Sailfish based on my success, and would like to add a
section describing which devices could be used at the moment.
What kind of budget is needed to get a decent developer board? EUR 500 -
700?
Thanks, Raju
Hi,
there are many possibilities for a device run Mer/Nemo Mobile with. I've
tested following devices myself, but there also many other possibilities:
- N900
* Works quite nicely though a bit slow at times
* Search 2nd hand market as these are not sold anymore
* Ready made images by nemo mobile community
- N950/N9
* works nicely in my opinion
* N9's are found around 200€ in 2nd hand
* Ready made images by nemo mobile community.
- ExoPC (tablet)/ Lenovo Ideapad (netbook) (x86)
* Some functionalities missing, like phone, sensors etc. But main
functionalites are there
* Should work on many other x86 devices as well but haven't tested many.
* Ready made images by nemo mobile community
* Price range varies a lot depending on device.
- x86 VM in VirtualBox
* Similar to x86 devices above
* Ready made images by nemo mobile community
* Free ;)
- Pandaboard (TI omap4)
* Adaptation not up to date, but should be possible to get to working
state quite easily
* Price ~200€
- Snowball (STE U8500)
* As mentioned there is adaptation and guide for this, though might need
a bit of work especially in graphics parts
* Also latest usersession things might need some minor bits added to the
previous guide I made
http://sagestechblog.blogspot.fi/2012/10/nemo-mobile-ui-on-snowball.html
* A bit more expensive ~300€, also there is hw problem with USB that
should be noted.
- Cubox (Marvell Armada 510)
* Quite nice hw but not the fastest ones, still functional and usable
* http://sagestechblog.blogspot.fi/2012/10/nemo-mobile-on-cubox.html
* Price under 150€
Best Regards,
Marko
