SlashGear for iPad and iPhone
RSS Feed

‘N900’ Stories

Nokia N900 Android 2.3.1 Gingerbread port gets video demo

, Dec 27th 2010 Discuss [1]

Efforts to put Android 2.3.1 on the Nokia N900 came to fruition last week, and now there's a video demo to prove it. DrunkDebugger has released footage of the platform transplant - which is still a work-in-progress for the moment - and while the resistive touchscreen of the N900 might not be up there alongside capacitive displays, the whole experience looks solid. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Nokia N900 gets Parrot AR.Drone remote control [Video]

, Dec 24th 2010 Discuss [1]

The Nokia N900 continues to show its appeal this week; after getting Android 2.3 Gingerbread on Wednesday, now the Maemo smartphone has become the next way to control Parrot's AR.Drone. As we found in our AR.Drone review, Parrot only offers iOS remote control apps officially, and has left the APIs open for developers to create Android and other apps themselves. That's just what Maemo chief engineer Kate Alhola has done with her N900. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Nokia: N900 MeeGo dual-boot isn’t for consumers

, Oct 14th 2010 Discuss [1]

News earlier that the Nokia N900 would be getting a dual-boot MeeGo option cheered up a lot of people, who had begun to suspect that the Finns intended to leave them and their open-source smartphone in the cold.  Now, however, the official word from Nokia has come through to The Nokia Blog that consumers still won't be offered a dual-boot option: it's only intended for developers to use. Read The Full Story

Nokia Instant Community gets new video demo: ideal for cruising

, May 27th 2010 Discuss [1]

Nokia Research have pushed out a second video demonstrating their Nokia Instant Community system of WiFi-based group messaging, and while first time around it was portrayed as a way to share sport event and concert opinions with those nearby, now everything has gotten a bit cruisy.  The principle is the same - ad-hoc WiFi connections are set up with nearby devices, and you can send out text, photo and video messages as well as see how many of your previous contacts are within range - but now it's being used to woo with amateur poetry, reconnect with random people you "encountered" at the gym, and get yourself invited to parties. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

MeeGo v1.0 for netbooks and N900 launches, gets video demo

, May 27th 2010 Discuss [0]

MeeGo v1.0 for netbooks and the Nokia N900 has now been released, complete with Qt 4.6 support, the MeeGo SDK with an integrated application development environment, and various other OS tools.  The MeeGo experience is centered around the Myzone, with various social networking, email, calendar and contacts widgets; these aggregate content from multiple networks, together with synchronized calendar, tasks, appointments and recently used files. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Nokia Instant Community: ad-hoc networks for chat & media sharing [Video]

, May 25th 2010 Discuss [3]

Nokia Research have been showing off a new technology designed to create impromptu WiFi mesh networks for chat and media sharing, and it's far more interesting than their partnership announcement with Yahoo! yesterday.  Wired grabbed a hands-on with the Nokia Instant Community system, which automatically creates ad-hoc WiFi connections between nearby devices; each device acts as a repeater, meaning the network could theoretically spread throughout a stadium or hall.  Initial apps include group text chatting together with photo and video sharing. Updated with video after the cut Read The Full Story

Nokia N900 gets Maemo 1.2 update; official MeeGo a no-go

, May 25th 2010 Discuss [1]

Nokia's N900 has just been gifted a software update, though it's not the MeeGo v1.0 firmware we're waiting for (more bad news about that after the cut).  Maemo 5 version 1.2 (v10.2010.19-1) is out in the UK today and will go global by the end of the week; it boosts email support, adds Facebook IM chat, video calling and portrait-orientation browsing, together with tweaking Nokia Ovi Maps. Read The Full Story

Nokia N900 gets Google Chrome browser

, Apr 9th 2010 Discuss [0]

You could certainly make a strong case for the Nokia N900 being the most hack-friendly smartphone on the market today, and the reasons for loving the Maemo beast just keep on coming.  After Firefox was ported to the N900, Jacekowski took it on himself to port Google's Chrome browser for the smartphone, complete with Flash support. Read The Full Story

Overclocked Nokia N900 hits 1GHz

, Apr 5th 2010 Discuss [1]

Nokia's N900 is already the device of choice for those who like to tinker with alternative software, but how about overclocking the 600MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor by 50-percent?  That's just what Maemo forum member Lehto has managed to do, releasing several new kernels that can drive the N900's core clock speed from a mild 700MHz boost to 950MHz.  In fact, he reckons he's had his N900 going even faster. Read The Full Story

Dumbing down: the price of a good UX?

, Mar 19th 2010 Discuss [2]

Microsoft has caught some grief this past week over the latest stage of the copy & paste debacle, a meme that began when Apple omitted the functionality from the iPhone (and took two years to add it in) and was resurrected upon the admission that Windows Phone 7 series wouldn’t ship with the ability to snip text from one app and paste it into another. In fact, copy & paste is just one example of Microsoft locking down their new smartphone experience, slicing a great deal of OEM and user customisation out in the process. They’re not the only firm to do so, however; merely the latest to seemingly decide that users want delineated – perhaps even prescriptive – experiences rather than flexibility.

Read The Full Story

Niko N900-based LEGO robot controlled by Twitter [Video]

, Mar 18th 2010 Discuss [0]

The Nokia N900 has already shown itself to be one of the more hack-friendly devices out there right now - we've seen it flirting with alternative OSes, unusual controllers and more - and the best part is that the Finnish company themselves are pushing for as much tampering as possible.  Currently Nokia is running the PUSH N900 competition in the US, asking teams to come up with unusual ways to implement the Maemo smartphone, and one such project is Niko, a Twitter-controlled robot. Video demo after the cut 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
Pages: 1 2 Next