Modest is a free

Free software

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, open source

Open source

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, email client developed by Nokia's

Nokia

Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...

 maemo project

Maemo

Maemo is a software platform developed by the Maemo community for smartphones and Internet tablets. It is based on the Debian Linux distribution, but has no relation to it...

. Small and lightweight, it is intended for use on hardware with “modest” resources, in particular Nokia's

Nokia

Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...

 N800

Nokia N800

The Nokia N800 Internet tablet is a wireless Internet appliance from Nokia, originally announced at the Las Vegas CES 2007 Summit in January 2007. N800 allows the user to browse the Internet and communicate using Wi-Fi networks or with mobile phone via Bluetooth. The N800 was developed as the...

 and N810

Nokia N810

The Nokia N810 Internet tablet is an Internet appliance from Nokia, announced on 17 October, 2007 at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Despite Nokia's strong association with cellular products, the N810 is not a phone, but instead allows the user to browse the Internet and communicate using...

 Internet Tablets running Internet Tablet OS 2008, as well as the N900

Nokia N900

The Nokia N900 is a smartphone made by Nokia. It supersedes the Nokia N810. Its default operating system, Maemo 5, is a Linux-based OS originally developed for the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. It is the first Nokia device based upon the Texas Instruments OMAP3 microprocessor with the ARM Cortex-A8...

 mobile phone running Maemo

Maemo

Maemo is a software platform developed by the Maemo community for smartphones and Internet tablets. It is based on the Debian Linux distribution, but has no relation to it...

. Modest is based on the lightweight Tinymail

Tinymail

Tinymail is a software framework for developing lightweight applications with e-mail functionality. It is built on Evolution's Camel library.Released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, Tinymail is free software.-History:...

 email framework

Software framework

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History

Modest was released as a public beta on December 11, 2007 and received weekly updates until its first official release as part of the Diablo release of Internet Tablet OS 2008. It replaced the previous email client osso-email. It is the default built-in email program for the Nokia N900 running Maemo 5.

See also

• Maemo
  Maemo
  Maemo is a software platform developed by the Maemo community for smartphones and Internet tablets. It is based on the Debian Linux distribution, but has no relation to it...
  
  
• Tinymail
  Tinymail
  Tinymail is a software framework for developing lightweight applications with e-mail functionality. It is built on Evolution's Camel library.Released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, Tinymail is free software.-History:...
  
  
• Comparison of email clients

External links

• Modest Homepage
• Modest Garage Page