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Firefox for Mobile Now Available on Nokia’s N900 Maemo Platform! [Default MicroB browser still better]

Firefox for Mobile Now Available on Nokia’s N900 Maemo Platform! [Default MicroB browser still better]

| January 30, 2010 | Reply

Advertisements FireFox has announced that it is now available for the N900 and Maemo 5. It’s been available a while as a Beta but now it’s ready. I’ve found the default MicroB To download, point your N900’s browser over to firefox.com/m Your N900 will add “Mozilla Catalogue” to app manager and it’ll proceed to  download […]

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Trusted Review's Video Review of the Nokia N900 – 9/10 performance…but…

Trusted Review's Video Review of the Nokia N900 – 9/10 performance…but…

| January 30, 2010 | 2 Replies

Back in December, Trusted Reviews published their review of the N900. There were some concerns with the review (commissioned, no live photos at the time) after apparently seeming to be no more than a preview (it was a commisioned review, originally  without any pictures), not fit for a gadget oriented site. Over a month later, […]

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Video: Numpty Physics on the N900 – Incredible interactive drawing puzzle game

Video: Numpty Physics on the N900 – Incredible interactive drawing puzzle game

| January 24, 2010 | 11 Replies

Numpty Physics is a brilliant game enjoyed by tablet users since the days of the 770, and its compatible for N900 owners too! The basic premise of the game is to get the red thing (may change per level; here it’s the start button) towards the yellow thing (in this case, a star). You do […]

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Engadget's Nokia N900 Review! Glorious browser – smacks everyone down in raw power and compatibility!

Engadget's Nokia N900 Review! Glorious browser – smacks everyone down in raw power and compatibility!

| January 19, 2010 | Reply

Engadget has often been mighty critical of Nokia. Sometimes undeservedly so, but most times unfortunately, their points against Nokia are indefensible. The main culprit for this negativity lies in S60. Whilst Symbian is a remarkably great mobile OS (still by far the most widely used platform), S60 is a now considered a cluttered and somewhat […]

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Maemo 5  v2.2009.51-1 firmware update observation and feedback

Maemo 5 v2.2009.51-1 firmware update observation and feedback

| January 18, 2010 | Reply

About a month ago, I wrote a post about firmware update wishlist for the N900. Last week, we had 2 firmware updates, a mini one and  a big one. I’ll combine the observations of both in this post. The new firmware updates seems to have solved a few items on that list including: 2. Portrait […]

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Games: Airport on the Nokia N900

Games: Airport on the Nokia N900

| January 15, 2010 | Reply

This is a really simple but quite a catchy game that’s free on the Ovi Store for the N900. It’s called “Airport”. Basically you’re an airport controller, and you have to safely guide the landing of the planes. You get two types of planes, the big commercial passenger plane and a small properller style. The […]

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Big New Maemo 5 Firmware Update Available to v2.2009.51-1 for N900

Big New Maemo 5 Firmware Update Available to v2.2009.51-1 for N900

| January 14, 2010 | Reply

Twitterfeeds are brimming with excitement this morning. Extremely quick following Monday’s mini firmware update, Nokia and Maemo Team have released the big 89.5MB  firmware update to PR1.1 release v2.2009.51-1 from 1.2009.44.1. There’s apparently Portrait Web Browsing.

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Video: Dual LED Flashlight for the N900

Video: Dual LED Flashlight for the N900

| January 13, 2010 | 16 Replies

Flashlights/Torches – never really around when you need one. Often, it’s too dark to go look for where you’ve put one. Maybe you don’t even have a torch. With phone screens getting bigger and brighter, some people use their as torches. But they’re not really properly bright enough as torches! On the bright side, many […]

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