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Company Nokia has slightly opened the past week to a secret curtain over the following version of mobile operating system Maemo Maemo 6. The technology multi-touch, already present devices as iPhone iPod touch, transfers Electronista becomes more than two years one of the central possibilities of the new version of a platform.

In last version Maemo Maemo 5 which is used Nokia N900, supports of multitouch input are not present. The device screen is capable to distinguish only one touch time moment. So, for example, for approach pages a vveb-browser the finger-tip rotary motion on the screen on hour or counter-clockwise is used. Circular motion use on N900 is absolutely convenient, as the smart phone understands not at oce, the user to change scale of page wishes to make what exactly or to move it the parties. This moment, anyway, was clearly visible on advertising samples of the smart phone. iPhone web page movement is carried out by one finger, time as changes of scale by a pinch by special gesture for which two fingers are necessary. Realisation of such reception became possible exclusively thanks to support multi-touch.

Besides technology of multitouch input, interface Maemo 6 the identical is high-grade to support as, so device orientation. Vnastojashchy moment N900 it supports book orientation is accessible only phone. time, in many appendices iPhone both modes for example, a vveb-browser are supported. Besides, it is planned will alter the house screen of system it completely it is based on, as Nokia N97.

Nokia at last will add multi-touch

Tools for an applications programming under Maemo 6 to let out in 2nd quarter of the next year, number toolkit for applications programming Qt, allowing on the basis of a uniform code to create programs as for Maemo, so other systems, for example, Symbian Windows Mobile. An exit of the first devices on the basis of Maemo 6 up to the end 2010. Assumes edition SlashGear. That it for devices they will support a mobile communication, as N900 while it is not known.

By the present moment Nokia there are no devices, supported technology of multitouch input. It, number, is not present willows N97, the flagman smart phone, based on the fifth version of platform S60.