Category: Linux
Improved How To Guide: Installing MSN, ICQ, Jabber, AOL and Yahoo! on #NokiaN9
Last week I brought you a way to install MSN on the N9. It was very long and involved extensive terminal work. This is an updated way, using three .deb files and four simple terminal commands. It will provide you with access to creating these accounts using the Accounts UI app. First of all, download [...]
N950 gets MeeGo 1.3 CE Nemo (N9 version being worked on)
Something many of us who have had the pleasure of owning an N900 know, is the ability to flash the device with a range of OSes. Now it seems you can do the same with the N950. (This does not mean dual-boot. Simply run a different OS on your device.) The MeeGo community has put [...]
3 minutes with Stephen Elop
Whilst Jay’s off at the Nokia World Event, I thought I’d keep an eye out for things others are posting and it looks like TheVerge have managed to get a few minutes alone with Stephen Elop where he explains a few things following the Nokia Lumia 800 and 710 launch. Checkout the video below, it’s [...]
The Nokia N9 review. Part 2.
In the first half of my review, I was thoroughly impressed with the hardware aspect of Nokia N9. Now it’s time to dive into the software department of this unique phone, and things are starting to look even more intriguing…
Meltemi IS Linux based replacement for S40
Remember Project Meltemi – a new Linux based OS for Nokia, as indicated by the name (which follows the Maemo way of wind names). We had a tip that we didn’t get to post about as I wasn’t sure where it was going, but GSM Arena later covered saying it’s NOT Linux, with speculation that [...]
Nomovok to provide Tizen with Qt
I thought I would not post about Tizen anymore since it was pretty much irrelevant to Nokia but apparently, Nomovok are going to provide Tizen with Qt. Previously it was thought that Qt would be stripped out in favour of HTML5 but Nomovok will provide Tizen with integrated Qt for both x86 and ARM architectures. [...]
Linux Lives at Nokia. Project Meltemi to power future Nokia feature phones? MeeGo Lite?
After mourning the death of MeeGo and its fall into the hands of Samsung with Intel as Tizen, here’s something positive to pick up on. WSJ has revealled more details on Project Meltemi. You may have heard it mentioned in a leaked internal memo in April, and also quite casually in the leaked staff keynote [...]
MeeGo to merge with LiMo, with NEC, Panasonic and Samsung?
According to Financial Times Deutschland, MeeGo is going to be merged with competing platform, “LiMo”. This would supposedly be backed by NEC, Panasonic and most importantly, Samsung. http://www.ftd.de I haven’t seen anything officially announced yet, but a search shows Bloomberg is also reporting on this. http://www.bloomberg.com Is this how the N9 would be the last [...]
N9 confirmed for September Launch in Australia – Exclusive to Vodafone
Spoke to my friend at Vodafone today, regarding the conference he went to during the week. He had a hands-on with the device and is quite impressed. He said he wants one, despite at first being skeptical when I told him I thought it was better then the iPhone. He now agrees :p He [...]
N950 hands-on: Nokia, please take my money!
While attending an Intel MeeGo event this Tuesday, there was a chance I’d finally catch a glimpse of Nokia MeeGo phone in the wild. Probably not the N9, but its geekier counterpart… And, well, turns out I did!
Twimgo 2.6 released
Following on from the Nokia Bubbles beta we showed you yesterday, (which if you haven’t already downloaded, you probably should, like NOW), we’re happy to bring you a new release of the lovely and FREE twitter client, Twimgo. The developer, Tommi Laukkanen would love for you guys to try out his new app and leave as much [...]
New Multitasking UI for Symbian 3 leaked ???
At first glance you might be looking at a pretty picture of these beatiful looking Nokia E7 with Qt quick demo apps, but after closer inspection the silver E7 in the left might be sporting a new UI for multitasking, now remember the E7 runs Symbian 3 and multitasking is definitely not like it is [...]
Qt SDK technology preview 1.1 goes live
Gotta love twitter! This recent news was broken a few hours back but has completely taken over the twitter-verse in the past hour or two. According to the people at Qt- labs this new release is the marriage of the Nokia Qt SDK and the previous Qt SDK based on Qt 4.7. Barely a day [...]
Windows powered HTC HD2 gets MeeGo 1.1
The gigantic Windows Mobile HTC HD2 has been spotted with MeeGo 1.1. There were some initial problems, but recent tweets from Steve Smith says he has got the touch screen working. The screen, as with the Android ports look a little stretched. BTW, non-Nokia blogs are reporting the UI to be interesting. And those big, [...]
Event: First MeeGo Conference 2010 begins today (15th – 17th) 09:00 GMT
The FIRST ever MeeGo conference begins today in Dublin at 09:00GMT. (Well today if we’re ignoring the early bird sessions that happened during the weekend). No more Maemo Summit, it is now of course all about MeeGo. The overview of the events are as shown below, but a much detailed programme list can be found [...]
Maemo 1.3 on the horizon?
While I’m currently in the middle of an all-nighter study/HW/project session, (it’s 2 AM where I’m at right now), some interesting news just filtered into our tips section (Thanks Jim). Over at the MeeGo blog, Harri Hakulinen let out that a Maemo 5 PR 1.3 release was incoming!! Jay will be pleased. Also mentioned was the [...]
MeeGo devices this year? Intel says no.
Well in news that’s sure to bum out a number of us both here and elsewhere in the blogosphere, it would seem that we won’t be seeing any actual MeeGo devices (in our own hands at least) before the first half of 2011. Doug Fisher, Vice President of Intel’s Software and Solutions Group and General [...]
Ari Jaaksi, VP of MeeGo Devices resigns
Well that’s something none of us expected. Given Nokia’s push for MeeGo as their singular high-end solution to compete with (read: crush) iOS and Android and the amount of buzz that has been generated both within and external to the company about this coming OS, it’s rather surprising that one of the most important men [...]
TwimGo – a new Qt based twitter client for Nokia N900
Just a quick heads-up of an interesting new twitter client that is being developed for Nokia N900. We all know how difficult the situation is with native twitter apps for N900 at the moment, so seeing new faces like TwimGo is definitely is exciting and worth checking out. The app utilizes the landscape screen of [...]
Rant: The death of another Symbian blog and the loss of another one of Nokia's Evangelists
This started out a reply to a comment posted in one of my most recent articles which posted a link to Symbian-Guru’s Ricky Cadden and Dotsisx Rita el Khoury final rants and goodbye to the Symbian-Guru website and blog. A link to the post can be found below. http://www.symbian-guru.com/welcome/2010/07/symbian-guru-com-is-over.html You should definitely give it a [...]
MeeGo Handset Guidelines: More details and screenshots of MeeGo Phone UI
Freshly pressed from the MeeGo site are developer guidelines. It’s a very interesting read about the Brand New MeeGo Phone UI. Cheers for heads up Andre. Introduction MeeGo Basics Designing your Application Theming Appendix These are only some of what the document includes. Multitasking: Linear view doesn’t seem to just scroll left or ride, the [...]
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