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Oh HAI! MeeGo lovechild OS of Nokia's Maemo and Intel's Moblin! New Era in Mobile Computing?

Oh HAI! MeeGo lovechild OS of Nokia's Maemo and Intel's Moblin! New Era in Mobile Computing?

| February 15, 2010 | Reply

Advertisements The Intel/Nokia partnership strengthens even further with the announcement that they are combining the best of Nokia’s experimental Maemo OS with Intel’s Moblin OS to create a super mobile OS. Qt of course means writing one application that can cross other platforms. MeeGo. Cue LOLCAT/Bad Engrish jokes. I like it. Scratc that. I love […]

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Videos: How to: Nokia N900 Custom Bootup/Startup Videos

Videos: How to: Nokia N900 Custom Bootup/Startup Videos

| February 11, 2010 | 4 Replies

Want a change from the connecting people hands as your startup? With the N900 you can change the video at bootup/startup. This can be any short clip that the N900 is able to play. Preferably “.avi”. Instructions on how to do this yourself are at the end of this post. Below are some examples of […]

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Carphone Warehouse Loves the Powerful N900 and Maemo 5.

Carphone Warehouse Loves the Powerful N900 and Maemo 5.

| February 9, 2010 | Reply

Carphone Warehouse is the largest mobile phone retailer in the United Kingdom (A.K.A. the Phone house is also the largest in Europe). In Cardiff city centre alone, in the space of about 500 metres, there are FOUR Carphone Warehouse stores (the two on the highstreet are 30 metres apart on either side…there’s another in the […]

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Carphone Warehouse Loves the Powerful N900 and Maemo 5.

Carphone Warehouse Loves the Powerful N900 and Maemo 5.

| February 9, 2010 | Reply

Carphone Warehouse is the largest mobile phone retailer in the United Kingdom (A.K.A. the Phone house is also the largest in Europe). In Cardiff city centre alone, in the space of about 500 metres, there are FOUR Carphone Warehouse stores (the two on the highstreet are 30 metres apart on either side…there’s another in the […]

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Facebook Chat for N900's inbuilt Conversations app.

Facebook Chat for N900's inbuilt Conversations app.

| February 6, 2010 | 6 Replies

On Sunday, we wrote about how to get additional Instant Messaging accounts to the N900’s built in messenger client. This was through the “Pidgin Protocols Plugin..”. The N900 only just now notified me of an update whereby now FaceBook chat is included. Facebook via conversations app was available a few days earlier but with extras-devel […]

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Video: Tour of FireFox on the N900

Video: Tour of FireFox on the N900

| February 5, 2010 | 11 Replies

Last Saturday, FireFox officially went out of Beta stage, ready for the masses [well N900 owners anyway] Below is a video tour showing you the great features on FireFox mobile for the Nokia N900 Awesome bar instant bookmarks Specific search engine search Open tabs on left browser controls on right awesome bar automatically stows away […]

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Big Push N900 Event at London tonight! [@PushN900 #PushN900]

Big Push N900 Event at London tonight! [@PushN900 #PushN900]

| February 4, 2010 | Reply

Thursday’s Open Source/Nokia related news isn’t all about Symbian, there’s a taste of Maemo too! Back in September, Nokia announced the Push N900 initiative. What is PushN900? “It’s a unique project from Nokia. And we’re looking for help from the world’s most skilled designers, artists, hackers and modders. We want you to come up with […]

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World's number one mobile OS, Symbian becomes fully Open Source [#symbiancountdown]

World's number one mobile OS, Symbian becomes fully Open Source [#symbiancountdown]

| February 4, 2010 | 13 Replies

The world’s most populous smartphone platform (330,000,000 shipped), Symbian, is now fully open source. Members of the foundation include Nokia, AT&T, LG, Motorola, NTT Docomo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone. In 2008, Nokia bought the rest of Symbian for $410 million…. and then gave it away. In February 2009, Nokia received $630 […]

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WiiMote, Duke Nukem 3D and N900

WiiMote, Duke Nukem 3D and N900

| February 3, 2010 | 36 Replies

Here’s a video showing Duke Nuken 3D being played on the N900…but the controls are a Wii Remote [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs73zGFkOKg] If you’ve got a Wii Remote and a N900 you wanna hook it up to, follow instructions on connecting the two below

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