MeeGo v1.1 for handsets is out, let the N900 dual-booting begin (video)
Following hot on the heels of the PR 1.3 update for the N900 comes the official MeeGo v1.1 build for handsets with U-Boot support. For developers, or anyone who simply likes to hack around, that means that the Nokia N900 is now ready to dual-boot into your choice of Maemo or MeeGo environments
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, Boot, image, n900, nokia, nokia-n900, the-dual-boot, video
Nokia N900 firmware PR 1.3 goes live
The addition of support for the full Ovi Suite and "performance improvements" are the only two items listed in the Nokia N900's latest published firmware update, but there's a third item skulking around that Nokia seems less willing to talk about: "easy" (albeit experimental) MeeGo dual-boot support, as promised in a recent posting on MeeGo's official site. We suppose the capability isn't mentioned because Nokia has said on no uncertain terms that the use of MeeGo on the N900 is an unsupported configuration -- but seeing how the N900 has been a hacker's delight from day one, we fully expect hundreds of thousands of the machines to be happily booting up the new platform within a day or three of this firmware breaking loose
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: firmware-update, hacker, machines, maemo, n900, nokia, ovi, performance, skulking, thousands, uncertain, update, upgrade
Firefox 4 for mobile goes beta on Android and Maemo
After a healthy alpha (and pre-alpha ) period, Mozilla is taking the mobile version of Firefox 4 to beta on Android and Maemo this week, promising improvements in stability, performance, and functionality. Actually, this represents a shift in branding for Maemo, where Firefox 1.1 has already been gold for some time -- but odds are good you're going to want to upgrade in any event, since this new version nets you the so-called Layers framework that aims to improve scrolling and zooming responsiveness. As you might expect, you get built-in Firefox Sync -- basically making this a superset of Firefox Home -- and support for HTML5.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: beta, entry, firefox, firefox 4 beta, firefox sync, healthy-alpha, improvements, mozilla, n900, Promising, represents, responsiveness, the-so-called
PS3 jailbreak adapted to Nokia N900, Palm Pre in wake of Australian ban (video)
Two weeks ago you'd have to pay an Australian importer for a specialized USB key . Four days ago open-source software let you roll your own . Today, there's no need for any of that -- you can hack your PS3 with a tethered smartphone
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, australian, hack, n900, nokia, nokian900, playstation 3, result, source, videos
HTC EVO 4G suffering occasional micro-USB port issues?
A quick glance of forums about the interwebs suggests that the EVO 4G has another potential defect that seems to be affecting a notable (though probably still very, very small) number of devices: problems with the micro-USB port, an issue that bit Nokia not long ago on the N900 . The main symptom here seems to be that the phone will no longer charge or charges intermittently -- and considering that your phone amounts to little more than a paperweight if it's not properly juiced, we'd say it's a big issue for affected folks. People returning their devices to Sprint have apparently have mixed luck getting reps to agree that the phone should be replaced, but for what it's worth, we've just heard back from an HTC spokesperson who -- in addition to emphasizing that the number of affected units seems to be small -- says that the problem will be covered under the one-year warranty as long as "it is determined that the issue was not caused by customer misuse." Anyone out there seeing this
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: charging port, evo 4g, evo4g, interwebs, n900, nokia, port, spokesperson, sprint, Warranty
Game Gripper makes grand entrance on Nokia’s N900 (video)
Say what you will about Nokia 's strategy (or lack thereof ), but there's no denying that the N900 is one capable gaming machine.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: complete, controller, game, gripper, level, machine, n900, nokia, nokia-n900, nokian900, perfect, peripheral, result, roms, sense
Nokia N9 (or something) in the wild: 8 megapixel camera, American 3G?
We told you, didn't we ? Whether you want to call this the N98, the N900's successor, or the N8 plus QWERTY, what you're looking at above is potentially the visage of Nokia's next smartphone
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: entry, imager, meego, megapixel, n900, negri, nokia, series, slider, some-straight, symbian
Nokia N900 drops to $369, unlocked
Hard to believe but after all this time the N900 remains the most powerful handset in Nokia's vast collection of cellphones. No other Nokia handset even comes close and that won't change until Nokia launches the Symbian^3-powered N8 or the MeeGo-powered N9 . So if you've got the dough and a certain inclination to write Python scripts on a Friday night, you might want to think about sliding $369 (down from $649 at launch or $479 currently at Nokia USA) Espoo's way for a crack at the ARM Cortex A8 slider.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: cortex-a8, inclination, launch, meego, n900, nokia-n900, price, python, reduced, time-the-n900
Nokia sells just 100,000 N900s after first five months: so? (updated: more like 5 weeks)
Look, the N900 might be sitting at the top of Nokia's handset pyramid in terms of capabilities, but as we've said all along , the N900 is not a mass-market device. Nokia's been very clear that the N900 was launched as a means to strengthen its Maemo development community (on the path to MeeGo we now know)
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: apple, detailed, gartner, mass, months, months-as-proof, n900, nexus one, nokia, normally-give, numbers
MeeGo 1.0 for netbooks and N900 now available to download
You've seen it teased , and now it's time to shelve whatever you had planned for this evening (or morning, depending on your current coordinates) and slap the first bona fide 1.x MeeGo release onto whatever device you've got handy.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: evening, glance, intel, maemo, meego, mobileos, n900, netbooks, nokia, nokian900, result, sdk, shelve-whatever, whatever-device