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Nokia N900 hacked to dual boot into Android
Jan 25th
It’s a matter of time. Nokia’s Maemo platform, the N900, has been hacked to allow dual boot into Android. The video below is showing the device is hacked to offer booting into Android. Although nothing much (no instruction of how to do this) has been shown in the video, but we are there will be more information coming soon and the N900 owners will able to enjoy both OSes on a single device soon.
Nokia N900 Maemo 5 review from Engadget
Jan 20th
Want to have another review before you make up your mind to buy a Nokia N900, powered by Maemo 5? Here is another review from Engadget.
The verdict: it’s a computer with a phone, not a phone that can compute.
According to the review, there are too many missing things in the phone. And it seems like an experiment from Nokia. And they don’t recommand people to buy it.
Read the review here.
Another Nokia N900 Maemo 5 review
Dec 18th
Looking for more reviews before you decide to buy the latest gadget, N900 (powered by Linux Maemo 5) from Nokia?
Here is another review from pocknow. The ariticle actually give you a quick tour of hardware and software aspects of the device.
You can have a look here.
Nokia N900 showing off impressive 3D WebGL in Firefox
Dec 4th
Still thinking of whether you should buy the N900 from Nokia? A recently released video showing off the 3D processing power of this device using the WebGL can tempt you more. The video below is showing the 3D rendering power of the device in a Firefox browser running on N900 and it really looks impressive.
Enjoy!
Nokia promises to improve the user experience for their phones in 2010
Dec 4th
During a recent Nokia press release, the Nordic telecommunication giant promises to deliver handsets that will have significant user experience improvement.
In the press release, Nokia outlines:
- Improve our user experience;
- Re-engineer our Symbian user interface; deliver a major product milestone before mid-year 2010, and another major product milestone before the end of 2010;
- Deliver our first Maemo 6-powered mobile computer, with an iconic user experience, in the second half of 2010;
- Significantly increase the proportion of touch and/or QWERTY devices in our smartphone portfolio;
- Scale up our Services business by expanding geographically and in partnership with more operators;
- Provide third party developers with better tools to create applications and content for our Ovi ecosystem;
- Further optimize the industry’s lowest cost end-to-end business model in Mobile Phones; and
- Continue to build on our affordable and localized services offerings for emerging market consumers.
Engadget has a video of the webcast from Nokia and it shows some of the screens from the future Symbian and Maemo devices from Nokia. In the video, Nokia says the problem is the UI, not the OS (Symbian). Take a look after the break.
Nokia N900 is available now in US
Nov 19th
The much anticipated Nokia N900 has landed in US, with a suggested retailed price of USD649.
This Linux based Maemo 5 device from Nokia has been generating a lot of interest on the net. It has 32Gb of storage and 5 megapixel camera, and comes with standard 3G, wife and GPS.
Nokia has decided to use US as its first stop. And we will the latest weapon from Nokia will save them from its declining market share of smartphone.
The press release of Nokia is here.
Amazing Nokia N900 multitasking
Nov 18th
We have this video from Mobiletechworld showing Nokia N900 (Maemo) running 12 apps at the same time, with music in the background. And it is running smoothly without much lag. Apperantly, Nokia engineers are working hard on this and it is something Android, Windows Mobile and Apple engineers can learn from.
Enjoy!!
