Theme Review: Maemo Arena for S60 5th Edition
No, nobody has ported Maemo 5 to our 5800s (yet!) but symbian theme designer Mandeep and FoneArena have released Maemo Arena, a symbian theme heavily inspired by the UI elements of Maemo 5.
Now only if some hacker would port the Maemo 5 OS to the 5800s, would we get the features like kinetic scrolling and skype integration on our 5800s but till then we have to be happy with this Maemo Arena theme, which we have to confess is as close as symbian UI can ever get to the Maemo UI, that is at the time being. Check out screenshots and a brief review after the break.
Screenshots-
Doesn’t that look exactly like the menu screen on the Maemo 5? We are talking about that menu screen in the landscape mode on our 5800s. Infact it would be hard to spot the difference between a symbian phone running this theme and an actual Maemo 5 device, unless you have both at your arm’s reach. Great work Mandeep!
What we like?
- Cool Maemo 5 wallpaper
- Menu screen in landscape mode just looks “maemo”some!
What we don’t like?
- White text has very low visibility with the present maemo wallpaper and hence shortcuts homescreen is largely unreadable
Verdict
As we have said earlier Maemo Arena is as close as we can get to the Maemo UI on our 5800 and that it is until some hacker is able to port the Maemo 5 OS to our 5800s, the chances of which are lets say not very encouraging. If you have been following the development of Maemo, you would know that this is one of the most happening platforms in the mobile industry today.
For more juice on Maemo, please check our sister blog for Nokia N900. And yeah, this very theme is just another reason why symbian rocks. Wondering how? See our 5800 can look like a Maemo device anytime but the vice versa is not really possible, atleast we haven’t seen/heard of.
Download Maemo Arena for free from FoneArena
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