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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Today, the MeeGo project announced and presented their Day 1 release, a developers’ preview of their upcoming OS and UI for mobile devices. The Day 1 release is the first taste that the community at large has to view, interact and provide feedback on the newest Linux-based OS to hit the block. Given that this [...]
FierceDeveloper’s Mike Dano had an exclusive interview with Director for MeeGo, Valtteri Halla. Some very interesting keypoints: MeeGo vs Symbian: MeeGo geared for high end, beyond handsets. Companies can mix and match what they want in MeeGo – Nokia will have their proprietary applications suite. Nokia are positioning MeeGo as an Alternative to Android Nokia [...]
Reports are now spreading that Nokia are “following” Apple and making a tablet. These trace back to a Digitimes research analyst who says “Talking with upstream component makers, the analyst pointed out that Nokia has already completed about 100 engineering samples ready for testing. The tablet PC’s panel size will be either 7- or 9-inch [...]
Good games on Maemo 5 is a rare occurrence, sadly. In fact, we started to expect as much, ever since the graphically impressive Bounce Evolution never went past being just a fancy tech demo. But looking past that, it did manage to show what the N900 hardware is rightly capable of with a drop of commitment [...]
You know the tech have been talking about Nokia’s decline for a long time with the iPhone and Android innovating in certain areas but especially this week when Steve Jobs unveiled iPhone 4 with a certain feature that we are all so familiar with here in Europe for what it feels like forever. The feature [...]
You may have seen MeeGo on a netbook. The interface looked pretty similar to Intel’s Moblin for netbooks. As Engadget discovered on a 10-inch Moorestown Quanta Redvale tablet, the MeeGo tablet UI looks completely different. “To say we’re impressed with the “pre-alpha” version of the software is a huge understatement.” This tablet is powered by [...]
On Thursday (Day Two of Open Mobile Summit) thanks to Nokia and WOMWorldNokia, Iain, Sergejs and I had the privilege of an unscheduled Q&A with Nokia’s EVP, MeeGo Computers: Alberto Torres who had just finished a Keynote Speech on “Transforming Nokia” and a panel on “Platforms Vs Networks”. Video is below along with a transcript. [...]
On Thursday (Day Two of Open Mobile Summit) thanks to Nokia and WOMWorldNokia, Iain, Sergejs and I had the privilege of an unscheduled Q&A with Nokia’s EVP, MeeGo Computers: Alberto Torres who had just finished a Keynote Speech on “Transforming Nokia” and a panel on “Platforms Vs Networks”. Video is below along with a transcript. [...]
Following this little teaser from WomWorld/Nokia, I guess it’s our turn to put the cards on the table. In the embedded youtube video down below you can watch Andrew Park from Cognitive Media using Nokia N900 default ‘Sketch’ application. But who exactly was he drawing there, you ask? Maybe it’s just some random Spanish matador, [...]
![Apps, apps and some more apps for your Nokia N900 [Maemo 5]](http://phonespot.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/apps21.jpg "Apps, apps and some more apps for your Nokia N900 [Maemo 5]")
What is the most important piece of the puzzle that completes a modern smartphone? Is it the powerful hardware? Is it the accessibility and ergonomics? Or is it perhaps the software – applications and integrated services – that come with the device? It’s probably a mixture of all these components. They create a stable foundation [...]
[YOUTUBE=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPCQF_QI8A0] [You may need extras testing apps. See here on how to install that catalogue] The N900 is easily one of the most customizable phones on the planet. It’s a given that most phones can change wallpapers, ringtones, themes, but normally you can’t change your operator logo, and if you could it was slightly complicated. [...]
If you’re reading this, then this demonstrate the N900 can use the native wordpress.com site for blogging. No app download, just raw wordpress pretty much how it would appear on your desktop….albeit within the confines of a 800×480 pixel wide screen. Note screenshot below is zoomed. The flash media uploader looks and acts like the [...]
Here are some shots of the N900 with some current high end phones. In Alphabetical Order: Apple iPhone BlackBerry Bold/Storm 2, LG BL-40 Nokia N97 Mini/N86/5800/E71, Palm Pre, Samsung i8910/Omnia II, Sony Ericsson Satio/Aino and Toshiba TG01 Initially the intention was to give a jist of the size of the N900. But since I was [...]
This morning WOMWorld kindly sent over the Nokia N900! Much excitement aside, I won’t be writing much in this post; I’ll leave the video and photos to speak for themselves. Hopefully you’ll be on a broadband connection as there’s tons of live pics of the N900, the box contents as well as an unboxing video [...]
…The Nokia N900 has arrived at my house. Well maybe. I haven’t opened the DHL bag yet and won’t open it until I get home after lectures. I want the first time the N900 box is opened to be on film, ha. It may possibly be that there’s just a box inside, maybe even a [...]
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