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Video: Navigate the London Underground with "Tube" for Nokia N900

Video: Navigate the London Underground with "Tube" for Nokia N900

| June 20, 2010 | Reply

Advertisements If you’re new to London, one of the fastest, cheapest but most daunting ways to get around the city is via the underground. Looking at the map for the first few times is overwhelmingly confusing, resembling nothing more than a bundle of coloured strings. Geeting from A-B may be fine if you’re on the […]

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Video: Maemo 5 Android theme for the Nokia N900

Video: Maemo 5 Android theme for the Nokia N900

| June 20, 2010 | 6 Replies

I don’t normally show case themes but I really like this Android theme for the Nokia N900. It doesn’t make your N900 appear like Android, but just picks of on hints of the design. It changes up the bookmark icons on the homescreen so the edges of the rectangles are rounded, plus the title bar […]

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Infinite Rotation for the N900

Infinite Rotation for the N900

| June 19, 2010 | 4 Replies

One complaint that many have brought against the Nokia N900 is that it largely lives in a landscape world. This is, according to Nokia, entirely by design. However, with the various updates to the firmware and software over the months, Nokia have added in support for portrait use of various bits and pieces. Out of […]

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MeeGo Phone UI Document: Cocktail of Android, iPhone, Maemo 5, WebOS and Windows Phone 7

MeeGo Phone UI Document: Cocktail of Android, iPhone, Maemo 5, WebOS and Windows Phone 7

| June 18, 2010 | 10 Replies

Reggie from Talk.Maemo.org has come across a very exciting document about the MeeGo handset UI guideline. The actual page is down but as Mark Guim from the Nokia Blog points out, it’s available through google Cache. (Note the fruit name of the page, Bananas and Pears) In case that gets deleted too, Chrome from TMO […]

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Video: Zen Bound on the Nokia N900 #Maemo 5 available at the Ovi Store

Video: Zen Bound on the Nokia N900 #Maemo 5 available at the Ovi Store

| June 16, 2010 | Reply

Zen Bound was one of the upcoming games previewed to arrive to the N900 along with 3D rollercoaster. It’s a beautiful 3D game, quite addictive with very calming music. Here’s the blurb from Ovi Store: Zen Bound is a calm and meditative puzzle game about wrapping wooden sculptures with rope. It is a tactile experience, […]

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Memory Lane, Part 2

Memory Lane, Part 2

| June 10, 2010 | 5 Replies

Following on from part 1, as a new addition to Jay’s team here, here’s a look at what the second half of the last decade looked like for me, in terms of Nokia devices and the evolution of their specifications. My upgrade opportunity in 2007 was well-timed for the arrival of the iconic N95. Until […]

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Video: Video Call and Skype Chat on the Nokia N900

Video: Video Call and Skype Chat on the Nokia N900

| June 9, 2010 | 13 Replies

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 […]

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Nokia N900 Portrait T9 keyboard in the works for Maemo 5

Nokia N900 Portrait T9 keyboard in the works for Maemo 5

| June 7, 2010 | 5 Replies

On Talk.maemo.org, Frals, creator of fMMS (bringing MMS to Maemo 5/N900 users) is working with wOOt to create a portrait keyboard for the N900. I’m glad they chose to do the traditional T9 input as that’s much easier to use with one hand  (for me anyways -I know there are also many who would prefer […]

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How To: Manually Update N900 firmware to PR1.2 / Hard Reset Nokia N900 (updated with images) v10.2010.19-1

How To: Manually Update N900 firmware to PR1.2 / Hard Reset Nokia N900 (updated with images) v10.2010.19-1

| June 2, 2010 | 17 Replies

Still stuck on 3.2010.02-8 for your N900? App Manager and Nokia Software Updater not showing any PR1.2 updates? Manually update to PR1.2! It’ll take 5 minutes (not counting download time of files) We’ve updated the post on Hard Resetting/Flashing N900 for PR1.2 this time, simplified even more with images to guide you through the process […]

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