Videos: Hands on Video and Product Show case Maemo UI action of the upcoming Nokia N900

The Product Show Case

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhTtsZATwBQ]

• live application switcher? Notice the video that’s still playing when in “dashboard” view.

Maemo UI in action

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au_uRmoy8Fs]

Erm. Wow. Fantastic advert.

Are those gesture movements gonna be real or just some idealistic interaction to make the video look better (like what happened with the N97?)

FireFox on N900 = win!

Full Screen viewer for photos  = great!

I really want one of these!

The hands on

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP5R-5NX1BE]

• Loving the multiple desktops, “Panoramic Desktop”.
• Flashing blue light – I love these! It’s gimmicky but something I’ve loved ever since the T68i
• Dashboard with live task switcher to switch between your applications.
• Has Flash 9.4
• Gesture areas! Swiping finger from left side of the screen gets you a mouse pointer in web browser. I hope it does more than that in other apps.
• Instant Web Browser history – sliding carousel of previously viewed pages opening instantly without reloading.
• Zooming either by circular gesture or double tap.
• Multiple browsers “No matter how many web tasks you have open, it works pretty smooth”. Ah…extreme multitasking on a Nokia Nseries.

There seems to be a continuing theme of having the desktop in your pocket. I wonder how good the firefox browser is on the N900 – There’s so many mobile browsers but none really that are giving close to desktop web browsing experience.

via Nokia Conversations.

Tags: FireFox, Hands On, Linux, Maemo 5, N900, Nokia, Nseries, Rover, RX-51, Video

Category: Nokia