Nokia and Intel have just announced that the Maemo and Moblin OS are now merging and becomming MeeGo. The keynote is still underway so I will post more about that later on. You can now go to www.meego.com to get some more information. Release date is set at Q2 2010. Qt will be used to [...]
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Following the RC1 release less than a month ago here comes the final bersion of Firefox mobile for Nokia’s Maemo platform (Nokia N900). Just like its bigger brother the mobile version of Firefox supports add-ons like like AdBlock Plus, URL Fixer, TwitterBar (there are currently more than 40 Firefox add-ons available for mobile). - Awesome Bar [...] Hot on the heels of the minor update released two days ago here comes the first major software update for the Nokia N900. The 2.2009.51-1 firmware is around 90MB and can be download OTA or on your PC (then use Nokia’s Software Updater to install it on the device). Here’s what’s new: First up is support [...] So far only two application on the Nokia N900 can run in portrait mode: the phone dialer and the photo album (unless you encounter this software glitch). Things have changed thanks to TheNokiaBlog.com who found out how to enable it in the browser. To enable portrait mode just launch the browser and press CTRL-SHIFT-O on [...] Nokia’s OVI Store (the company’s application store) is now availalbe on the N900 Maemo5 smartphone following yesterday’s OTA update. Users can now access it through the browser or directly in Maemo 5 (you’ll launch the same OVI store app in either casses) and download application directly to their N900. Source: Nokia Coversations N900 users should expect to see a small update being pushed to their devices in the next 24 hours according to Nokia. The update is meant to prepare the N900 for the opening othe the Maemo Ovi Store (some users are already reporting that the store is up and running..). Source: Nokia Conversations Here’s a short hands-on video of an upcoming OpenGL ES game on the Maemo 5 powered Nokia N900: The game isn’t out yet but should be available through Nokia’s OVI store in the coming month. Hopefully the slightly sluggish performance seen in the video will be fixed by then . source: FoneArena To start of the new year Mozilla just released the RC1 of Firefox for Meamo so all you lucky N900 (& N810) user cantry it out. You can check out the changelog here. To help bring in the new year, Mozilla has released the first release candidate of Firefox for Maemo. If you’ve already [...] Nokia is finally waking up it seems, according to the press release of today’s Nokia Capital Market’s Day, the N°1 phone company is set to deliver a whole lot of good stuff next year: Nokia Devices & Services operational priorities As you probably already know, the Nokia N900 supports portrait mode only in two applications, the phone dialer and the photo album. Nokia already announced that an upcoming update to Maemo 5 should enable this rendering mode across more parts of the OS. In the mean time it seems that a software glitch actually makes [...] MyNokiaBlog has uploaded the following detailed unboxing video of the Nokia N900, he’s also posted a fairly extensive picture gallery of the device and all the accessories include in the retail packaging. Looks sexy and responsive, Maemo 5 looks like a winner IMO. Can’t wait to get my hands on it (if it ever comes [...] The Nokia N900 is currently one of the most feature rich smartphone on the market (and a multi-tasking monster) and here’s a short video that proves it.Tthe Maemo 5 team did a video demonstrating the FM tranmitter which enables you to listen to music played on your N900 directly in you car without hooking it [...] Remember the previous video of the Nokia N900 running 12 applications at the same-time without breaking a sweat ? Well check this new one out, this time the devices is cruising with 28 apps running simultaneously: Wow, do we have a smartphone multi-tasking record here ? Maemo 5 seems to have some pretty good memeory management. Source: [...] US Nokia fans can rejoice, the N900 is now officially available in Nokia’s flagship stores for $649 or on Amzon for $549. The Maemo 5 smartphone is the one the best phones currently available on the market and features what is said to be the best mobile browser, you check out all the N900 coverage [...] Here’s a French review of Nokia’s latest Maemo 5 smartphone the N900. I must say that I learned something new, I didn’t know that the volume buttons can be used to zoom-in & out in the browser and the photo album, nice touch IMO. Here’s the video walkthrough: I can’t stop being impressed by this device [...] Here’s a Nokia N900 stress test video similar to the HTC HD2 video posted a few days ago demonstrating the multi-tasking capabilities of the device. You’ll see the N900 running 12 apps at the same time (all with the music player running in the background) without crashing or lagging too much. It will be interesting [...] The long awaited Nokia N900 is officially starting to ship now in and should land in Europe, Middle-East, Russia & North America in a couple of days. The N900 is Nokia’s first Maemo 5 (linux) based smartphone and in my opinion one of the their most exciting devices in a while. Click here to check [...] PhoneArena just posted their preview of Nokia’s Maemo 5 smartphone the glorious N900. They found the device to be really impressive, like the majority of those who got a chance to handle the phone. Especially the browsing experience: Now, this is what the Nokia N900 is all about. The device is equipped with own Maemo browser [...] As you probably know there is currently no way of running Spotify on Linux, but it’s looks like some motivated dev decided to overcome this problem and created a QT app which access the open source Spotify client library called “despotify” and ran it on the Nokia N900 (which runs the Maemo 5 lunix-based OS. For [...] It’s been announced a while ago but it’s today that the Symbian foundation has opened the EKA2 Kernel source code making it available under the Eclipse Public License: This is a major breakthrough for the Foundation that shows our commitment to open source and the wider community while enabling the symbian ecosystem to make business as [...] |
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