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Nokia N900 runs Mac OS X 10.3 (slowly) [Video]

, Feb 1st 2010 Discuss [0]

Nokia's N900 is developing quite a name for itself as a great platform for hacking, and after seeing the Maemo smartphone dual-boot Android a week ago, now it's the turn of some classic Mac OS X action.  Toni Nikkanen managed to get Mac OS X 10.3 - the Power PC version - running on his N900, though to be fair it's not a native install; instead, the Apple OS runs in the PearPC emulator. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Aigo N500 Maemo phone/MID hybrid hits China

, Jan 26th 2010 Discuss [0]

Unless you're a MID addict you may not have heard of Aigo, but with the company actually having shipped products rather than merely flaunted concepts we're liable to give them a little extra rope.  That makes this new MID - the Aigo N500 - particularly interesting, since it runs Maemo just like the Nokia N900. Read The Full Story

N900 gets Maemo 5 PR1.1 update: Exchange 2003 support, Ovi Maps improved

, Jan 14th 2010 Discuss [0]

Nokia have pushed out a significant firmware upgrade for the Nokia N900, Maemo 5 PR1.1, and there are some key changes which will hopefully make it a more palatable device for business users.  Top of the list is tweaked Mail for Exchange support, which means the N900 now supports Exchange Server 2003; previously the N900 would only work with more recent versions, despite many companies still using 2003 (or third-party equivalents of it, such as Kerio Mail Server installs). Read The Full Story

Optima OP5-E Maemo MID gets reviewed [Video]

, Dec 7th 2009 Discuss [0]

Nokia may only have plans for a single further Maemo device in 2010, but that's not to say the market will be limited to that unnamed handset and the N900.  Optima have launched the first non-Nokia Maemo MID the shape of the Optima OP5-E, a 4.3-inch resistive WVGA touchscreen, 806MHz Marvell PXA310+ ARM processor and integrated 3G (CDMA now; HSDPA coming next month).  Over at ARMDevices Charbax has reviewed the OP5-E, and he seems pretty excited about its possibilities. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Nokia 2011 platform predictions: Maemo in, S40 squeezed out

, Dec 2nd 2009 Discuss [1]

Nokia's intentions toward Maemo and how the new, open-source platform fits in with their existing S60 smartphone OS have kept the rumor-mongers going for months now.  Only last week, SlashGear columnist Avi Greengart asked whether the Finns should junk S60 in favor of Maemo; according to this slide from Nokia's Capital Markets Day, the prognosis is actually worse for S40. Read The Full Story

Nokia planning Symbian UI overhaul plus “major product milestones” in 2010

, Dec 2nd 2009 Discuss [0]

Nokia's The Way We Live Next 3.0 conference was a chance to dream happily about the future of mobile devices, today the company has put its stats where its mouth is.  It's Capital Markets Day for the Finns, and while there's plenty of talk of targeting average selling price erosion and flat market share in 2010, the most interesting stuff for the geeks among us are its aims for smartphones.  Key among those is re-engineering the Symbian UI and delivering what Nokia describe as two "major product milestones", midway through and then at the end of 2010. Read The Full Story

Qt 4.6 with multitouch released plus second Maemo 5 tech preview [Video]

, Dec 1st 2009 Discuss [0]

Nokia have pushed Qt 4.6 out of the door, complete with support for multitouch and gestures, a new Animation Framework, and a new OpenGL paint engine.  The app and UI framework also gains compatibility with a broader range of platforms, including Windows 7, OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Symbian and Maemo 6.  Meanwhile Maemo 5 support continues to develop, with Nokia releasing a second technology preview today. Video demos after the cut Read The Full Story

Should Nokia Abandon Symbian S60 for Maemo Linux?

, Nov 27th 2009 Discuss [11]

Nokia has a problem: it is both the largest handset vendor in the world, by a significant margin, and the largest smartphone vendor in the world – again, by a significant margin. Yet it has never managed to crack the U.S. smartphone market, and it has begun losing market share even in its European strongholds, primarily to Apple, though RIM, Samsung, and HTC are also threats. Nokia admits that it was caught sleeping while Apple first redefined the mobile user experience with the iPhone, and then again when Apple reenergized app development with the App Store. Nokia’s initial response has been lackluster: adapting its existing Symbian S60 OS to support touch, applying that to a few phones (the 5800 and the N97), and stumbling in its initial launch of the Ovi Store.

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Nokia N900 in-store sales delayed in UK

, Nov 25th 2009 Discuss [0]

Looks like Nokia was a victim of its own success.  Not only has the N900 taken far longer to reach the market than initially expected, strong pre-order sales have meant the company has been forced to push back its in-store release of the Maemo 5 smartphone until December 4th.  The Finnish company told NokNok that demand has basically outstripped supply. Read The Full Story

Nokia: Symbian death in 2012 on Nseries speculation is “completely premature”

, Nov 18th 2009 Discuss [0]

Oh dear, it looks like someone in the Maemo marketing team had a few too many drinks last night and said something they shouldn't have.  Having heard earlier on today that Nokia were planning to ditch Symbian on their Nseries devices by 2012, the Finnish company has now issued a statement calling any such speculation "completely premature". Symbian, they say, is about "bringing smartphones to the masses", while Maemo is targeted at "devices based on technology that you'd typically find inside a desktop computer". Full statement after the cut Read The Full Story

Nokia N900 finally shipping in US today

, Nov 18th 2009 Discuss [0]

We're not sure what we'll do with our time now that Nokia have officially announced that their N900 is available in the US.  It seemed like we spent half our day fielding rumors about its release - either dates or postponements - that's when we weren't playing with the device itself, of course. Read The Full Story

Nokia Nseries to all run Maemo not Symbian by 2012

, Nov 18th 2009 Discuss [0]

Maemo - as on the Nokia N900 - is still more of a geek's paradise than a consumer-ready platform, so we hope the development team responsible for it will be working hard over the next couple of years.  That's because the Maemo marketing team have let slip that, as of 2012, Maemo will replace Symbian as the OS for Nokia's entire Nseries range of handsets. Read The Full Story
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