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

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Nov 18th 2009 No Comments

nokia n900 hands on slashgear 33 540x414Oh 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”.

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Nokia Nseries to all run Maemo not Symbian by 2012

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Nov 18th 2009 No Comments

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.

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Maemo “Contagious Content” concept promises geo-linked collaborative media

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 10th 2009 2 Comments

Nokia’s various open-source teams are well on their way to being the flirting teases of the mobile OS world; after last week’s Symbian Foundation demo video, showing a nifty amalgam of augmented reality, geo-location services and combined social network streams, head of Maemo marketing Peter Schneider took to the stage at Nokia’s The Way We Live Next 3.0 event to discuss his team’s vision of “contagious content”.  According to Schneider, one day our mobile devices will be able to spot hot topics of information – whether they be Twitter messages, photos or something else – nearby to us, and flag them up to better involve us.

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Nokia N900 ships today; Maemo enhancements get video demo

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 10th 2009 1 Comment

SlashGear is at Nokia’s The Way We Live Next 3.0 conference in Helsinki, Finland this week, and the company has just confirmed that the much-anticipated Nokia N900 Maemo smartphone will be shipping today.  We’ve been told that the handset – which has a 3.5-inch resistive touchscreen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard – went out from Nokia’s production facilities over the weekend, with shipments of the handset beginning in Europe, the Middle East, Russia and North America.

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Video demo of N900 Maemo 5 enhancements after the cut

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Spotify for Nokia N900 [Video]

By Chris Davies on Monday, Oct 26th 2009 No Comments

Nokia’s N900 is already enticing developers, but right now there’s not the same compelling catalog of applications as you might find, say, in the iPhone’s App Store.  Happily that just leaves room for Maemo coders to fill with their own apps, such as a homebrew open-source Spotify application.

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Video demo after the cut

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Nokia N900 shipping “end of October” in US

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 16th 2009 No Comments

Having dithered around its release date like a forgetful felon, the Nokia N900 looks to have finally been granted a more or less official launch window.  According to the official US Nokia store, the N900 will begin shipping at the “end of October 2009“; that tallies with what Amazon UK were saying back at the end of September (October 26th), but the mega-retailer has now changed its tune.

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Nokia N920 leaks? Non-QWERTY capacitive Internet Tablet tipped

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 15th 2009 1 Comment

We’re inherently sceptical of anything blurry that’s claiming to be a prototype, so throw some salt over your shoulder and take a look at what’s tipped as Nokia’s next-gen N9xx-series Internet Tablet device.  According to imobile365 the Nokia N920 will be a touchscreen-only device, using a 4.13-inch capacitive touchscreen rather than the N900’s 3.5-inch resistive panel and supporting multitouch gestures on Maemo 6.

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Nokia N900 video unboxing

By Chris Davies on Monday, Oct 12th 2009 7 Comments

The Nokia N900 was the stand-out device from Nokia World back in September, and we’ve been tracking the Maemo 5 smartphone ever since.  Imagine our surprise, then, when a pre-release N900 dropped onto the SlashGear test bench today; the hardware is final, so the 5-megapixel autofocus Carl Zeiss camera is onboard, together with HSPA, WiFi b/g, a 3.5-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and you can check out our video unboxing and gallery after the cut.

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Maemo 6 UI concept revealed; capacitive & multitouch support confirmed

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 9th 2009 No Comments

In the second chunk of Maemo 6 news today, Nokia have been spilling details regarding the upcoming OS at the Maemo Summit.  Steve from UMPC Portal has snapped some of the slides, with confirmation that Maemo 6 will support multitouch and capacitive touchscreens – as we already knew – together with some previews of potential UI designs.

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Nokia port Qt to Maemo 5, promise N900 compatibility [Video]

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 9th 2009 No Comments

Nokia have already been pretty upfront about their intentions with the cross-platform Qt framework and Maemo, but the company has just pushed out an official Qt port to Maemo 5 in the form of a “technology preview” release.  Contrary to earlier news that Qt wouldn’t play nicely with Maemo 5, the OS which the Nokia N900 will run, but only Maemo 6 (expected in late 2010), the Qt port “is designed specifically to work within the Maemo 5 environment”.

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Video demo on the N900 after the cut

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