divan0 shares with us a pretty cool video of USB on the Go for the N900. We saw it the other day playing back a movie directly from a DVD drive over USB to Go. Here’s something a little more day-to-day/practical. 2:04 N900 huge video file playback. Not a problem for the N900 3:25 N900 [...]
Oh Maemo 5 and Nokia N900 – You never cease to surprise. RT’d by @johnnybrasco @MeeGoExperts has found a very awesome video by mohammad7410 of the brilliant Nokia N900 playing a DVD disc over USB Host mode. Playing DVDs on the N900 with a modified kernel and a custom mplayer build. Thanks to the hostmode [...]
amandahoic from amanda_hoic.mysinablog.com/) has recorded a video demo of MeeGo 1.1 on the N900. It’s not in English (but Cantonese) but you can still appreciate what’s going on in MeeGo. Note this is the basic Vanilla colour scheme of Vanilla MeeGo which will look different to Nokia’s MeeGo Handset (Harmattan) 01:43 – Dialler/call page (actions [...]
I’m typing this from my N900. I don’t know why but everytime I’m hundreds of miles away from home or uni (for another nokia thing most of the time) a new Nokia firmware comes out that I cannot download. ha. Anyway, the little update flashy notification thing buzzed and confirmed that indeed the new firmware [...]
A year on and the N900 is still as awesome as ever. Here’s the N900 playing WebOS games WITHOUT the need to boot up WebOS itself, as demoed by fukywak. Here we can see Sims 3 and Need for Speed Undercover Check out the thread on talk.maemo.org
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 [...]
The Nokia N900 is renowned for its multitasking prowess. Not just in terms of how many activities it can juggle but also in the contextual grid interface of LIVE windows. Here’s another look – a single column view. What’s interesting is that it’s vertical. A brilliant must have addition is shortcutD which can give [...]
An alternative to Morpho QuickPanorama “Nokia Panorama” is now available at the Ovi Store for free. In contrast to Morpho, the detail seems MUCH higher with the Nokia version. The seams are pretty much invisible. The pic below is from Damien Dining. I don’t have a N8 to test this out so I’m not sure [...]
Just how much better has the Nokia’s CBD AMOLED improved from the previous N900 TFT LCD (disregarding the N86 2.6″ AMOLED). The difference is startling. (note, N90 does have screen protector, but the colours would look pretty much the same regardless as it did so on the show floor N900). N900 does ‘win out’ though [...]
An unmissable feature on Nokia World Experience Lounge show floor was the big-ass camera mounted car which resembled google’s own street view car. Now, I was told by Nokia-NAVTEQ folk Nick and Robert that this particular car wasn’t actually for street view but to improve map accuracy (or words to that effect). However there was [...]
As part of the “It’s not the technology: It’s what you do with it” series, here’s another look at one of the Push N900 winners. Kite aerial photography with Nokia N900s. The N900 isn’t just attached to a kite. Another N900 can control the motors of the rig the aerial N900 is attached to, so [...]
At the Nokia USA website, the sole Maemo 5 phone from Nokia, the multitasking beast with killer web browser and customizability options is at a rock bottom price of $200 USD! Bargain! But it’s only for a limited time. What’s the catch? Well you pay $480 up front first, and hand in your (or any [...]
I don’t know about you, but I’m hooked on mobile internet and always being ‘online as it happens’. With the Nokia N900, MicroB and FireFox Mobile, the only thing that limits me getting to the sites I want is a signal. In the UK, O2 and T-Mob have been doing a fairly decent enough job [...]
I don’t know what progress I’ve missed on the MeeGo handset UX front whilst I’ve been away but the last few videos I saw were only the extremely early, limited functionality ones. Here the menu items have changed, and the third row is hidden away beneath the launcher bar (instead of being a side swipe [...]
Symbian has been tarred in the past for the complexity of app development. The issue in the past was the difficulty in making Symbian apps in comparison to iPhone OS. Although native Symbian is powerful and allows you to create deeply integrated apps, it’s difficult to use at the beginning. Solution? Nokia Qt SDK, which [...]
Here’s a little GEM of an application that’s free on Ovi Store for your Nokia N900. This is by far the most promising user interface for a music player I’ve ever come across on a Nokia handset. It’s called “instinctiv”, download it from the Ovi Store on your N900. The player supports wma, flac, ogg, [...]
In the video below, you’ll see the Nokia N8 connecting to a load of different devices, acting as a USB host and accessing the files on the respective devices. From E72, N900 to powered external hard drives and portable (non powered) external hard drives. It’s awesome to see it connecting with the portable hard drives [...]
Hold your N900 in your N900 in portrait mode, right hand with the thumb on the side. Then push the OFF button. Here was Nokia’s statement in response to yesterday’s deflection, distortion and illusion show by our favourite magician. Smoke and mirrors at its finest. Antenna design is a complex subject and has been a [...]
Announced on the Maemo Talk forums here, fans of Opera’s web browser can grab an updated version for Maemo from the extras-testing (or extras-devel for N8x0 users) repository as of today. Here’s a copy and paste of the changes detailed in the forum post: Geolocation support. Javascript JIT support. Fix garbage display after rotation due [...]
To celebrate the release of FireFox 1.1 on the Nokia N900, FireFox are giving you the chance to win yourself the uber powerful Nokia N900. All you have to do is get 100% on the mini firefox quiz. CLICK HERE to enter. For a heads up on the answers, check out this post about FireFox [...]
Maezer is an app created by Blaizzen (from talk.maemo.org) for the Nokia N900 that uses the accelerometer to move a ball across a 2d maze. I prefer this to the more glamorous accelerometer type maze games as it’s less about the skill of moving the phone at the appropriate time and angle (and such loosing [...]
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