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Nokia N900 hacked to dual boot into Android

bapagoh — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:53:32 +0000

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

bapagoh — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:34:01 +0000

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

bapagoh — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:57:59 +0000

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 Demoes N900 tablet

bapagoh — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:12:49 +0000

At CTIA, Nokia demoes its upcoming N900 Internet tablet, powered by Linux and Maemo. The device has a sliding QWERTY keyboard, resistive touch screen, interesting widgets, visual task manager, and many others. View the video below:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw6MhEt6EmA

Nokia’s N900 Maemo 5 gets extensive review

bapagoh — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:10:59 +0000

Before you buy a Nokia N900 Maemo 5 device when it hits the street, make sure you read this extremely detailed review from mobile-review. The review includes a big array of screenshots as well as covering most of the aspects of the device.

The device will look familiar to the owners of N800, N810. However, the Maemo platform has been under a major overhaul by Nokia, hoping to bring a good alternative smart device to the market.

Before enjoying the reading, there are some of the highlighted features you may want to note:

Process management looks like webOS card view.
It handles GSM and VoIP calls in a similar way and this make it a very VoIP friendly device.
MMS isn’t supported.
It support Exchange ActiveSync. With the Google Sync lately, you might be able to make it work with Google services.
It uses Mozilla-based browser.

[via mobile-review]