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.
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Nokia N900 Android 2.3.1 Gingerbread port gets video demo
Nokia N900 gets Parrot AR.Drone remote control [Video]
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.
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Android 2.3 Gingerbread arrives on Nokia N900
Nokia's N900 continues to prove itself a firm favorite with the modding community, now managing to get an Android 2.3 Gingerbread port before Google has even managed the official release for the Nexus One. The handiwork of NITDroid team member Alexey Roslyakov - aka DrunkDebugger - the port isn't 100-percent functional but does allow for cellular and WiFi data access, audio and more.
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Nokia N900 gets Maemo update: Ovi Suite & extra speed
Nokia maintains that regular N900 users will be better served sticking with Maemo than trying to persuade them to jump the device to MeeGo, and it seems that the Finns are at least following up on their promises to maintain the open-source OS. A new software version for the Nokia N900, v.20.2010.36-2, has been released, adding full Ovi Suite support and various bug fixes and speed improvements.
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Nokia: N900 MeeGo dual-boot isn’t for consumers
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.
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Nokia World 2010: We’re here
Nokia World 2010 kicks off this morning, and we’re with the Finnish company in London, UK, today to see if they can announce a portfolio of devices and services that will eclipse the last few days’ high-profile exec departures. On the cards is the Nokia N8, the Symbian^3 smartphone Nokia hopes will turn around their mid- to high-tier fortunes, but we’re also expecting quite the spread of featurephones and enterprise-centric devices.
Firefox Mobile Fennec Alpha hits Android and N900 [Video]
Firefox Mobile for Android and the Nokia N900 has been pushed out, or at least Mozilla's Alpha release of the smartphone browser. Natively supporting Firefox Sync - bringing desktop browsing history, bookmarks, passwords, form-fill data and open tabs to the mobile app - the new browser apparently concentrates on increasing speed and responsiveness, with Mozilla debuting their new "Electrolysis" and "Layers" technology.
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FCam adds RAW and HDR capture to Nokia N900
Mobile photography could get a shot in the arm thanks to the combined efforts of Stanford University researchers and Nokia Research, who have pushed a new open-source digital photography platform out the door. FCam - or "Frankencamera" - is initially available for the Nokia N900, and unlocks high-end functionality like RAW image capture, full manual controls and low-light imagery through combining multiple shots of varying ISO and exposure settings.
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Qualcomm demo AR and peer-to-peer cross platform gaming [Video]
Qualcomm’s Uplinq developer conference has been taking place this week, and SlashGear has been here keeping track of the news. The silicon company has been demonstrating new Augmented Reality apps based running on their Snapdragon processors, kicking off a new AR Developer Challenge – with a $200,000 prize fund – and showing how its system-agnostic peer-to-peer gaming technology can be used with the Unity 3D game development tool for true cross-platform local gameplay.
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Nokia N900 sold “well in excess” of 100,000 in five weeks; Gartner figures seriously wrong claims source
Analyst predictions - like any other - should generally be taken with a pinch of salt (the Steve Ballmer at WWDC 2010 speculation is good evidence of quite how much sodium is necessary), but it seems someone at Gartner has been seriously mistaken in their counting. They're quoted as claiming under 100,000 Nokia N900 units were sold in its first five months on the market; however, a source we spoke to at Nokia today told us that in fact the Finnish company sold "well in excess of 100,000" N900 handsets in the first five weeks.
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Nokia Instant Community gets new video demo: ideal for cruising
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.
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MeeGo v1.0 for netbooks and N900 launches, gets video demo
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.
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