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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> developers.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">m Vikas.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have a basic doubt.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I got the information from Wikipedia that Nokia N800 uses Maemo3.0 in the form of Internet</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> Tablet OS 2007</SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Am</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> right that</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> this means that Maemo is almost a complete package with which a phone can have very basic functionalities</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">???????</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Now, the library stack of Maemo3.0 looks like this according to Wikipedia:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> Hildon-------------------------------------Topmost layer</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> GTK+, D-Bus </SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"> X Window System</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"> Debian </SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us">GNU/Linux---------------------------------Lowest layer</SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us">Now if I put the above open source components on a hardware platform (an appropriate board with LCD display, used for development, not the phone’s board)</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us">and then install Maemo3.0 on top of it, will I see the very basic GUI of the mobile phone and develop further????????????</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us">Is such a thing possible????????</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us">If yes, please let me know which hardware board to use for this experimentation.</SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us">Please let me know…</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us">Awaiting a reply….</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us">Thank you,</SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us">Vikas N.R</SPAN></P>
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