The Nokia N900 and its 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen, 5-megapixel Carl Zeiss camera, 32GB of storage, GPS and WiFi make it one monster of a smartphone. But, if you’re going to buy the Maemo-powered Nokia handset unlocked and contract-free, it’s also got one monster of a price-tag. Today, though, you can get your hands on the…
Ovi Store launches in beta for the Nokia N900
Nokia has launched a beta version of Ovi Store for the N900. It’s not a client app at this point, but a mobile website, which you can access from store.ovi.mobi. Once you click on the “Download” link, Application Manager will open and take it from there. Among the apps we find are such must-have titles…
Nokia N900 gets a small firmware update
Nokia is rolling out a small N900 update, which will (or is already) be available across all territories where the N900 is sold and across all variants. Nothing too exciting is included – Nokia says that the new firmware prepares the N900 for opening the Ovi Store, which [Ovi Store for Maemo] will be separately…
Hands-on the ELSE Linux smartphone at CES 2010
Google’s Android might be the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of a Linux-based mobile operating system, but it’s not the only player in the Linux game. There’s also the ELSE Intuition OS that powers the ELSE First smartphone from phone maker ELSE. The ELSE Intuition OS is based on the ACCESS…
Mozilla releases Firefox RC 2 for Nokia N900
If you have a Nokia N900 in your pocket (or in your hands as you read this), consider yourself lucky. Your Maemo-powered N900 is one of the only smartphones on market today that works with the public releases of Mozilla’s Firefox Mobile (Fennec) web browser. Following on the browser maker’s recent Firefox RC1 release for…
N900 Coming to WIND Mobile
Nokia’s N900 is one of the few handsets to work on wind Mobile’s AWS bands (1700/2100, same as T-Mobile), and although it was absent from their inaugural lineup, wind has promised it will be coming early this year. wind faces an uphill battle as the newest player in the Canadian telecom industry, but neither Rogers…
Video: Home Run Baseball for the Nokia N900 [it’s choppy, it’s baseball, but at least it’s something]
Baseball, a sport that never really took off to the same degree that say football (soccer) or basketball have, is coming to the Nokia N900 courtesy of India Games in a title called “Home Run Baseball”. Tap the screen to hit the ball, get your ego inflated a bit by hearing the computer generated sounds…
Firefox Mobile Release Candidate 1 Available on Maemo
As expected, the first public release of Firefox Mobile (a.k.a Fennec) is available today for the Nokia N900. I haven’t seen a lot of big changes in this particular version, but you can check out the changelog for highlights. Obviously the big feature is support for plug-ins, but the iconic Awesome Bar, tabbed browsing,…
Video: Duke Nukem 3D running on the Nokia N900
If iPhone can do it, so can the Nokia N900. Yap, the good ol’ Duke Nukem 3D is running nicely on the Finnish giant’s Maemo device. You use a combination of a touchscreen and keyboard to control Duke as he finds his way around hallways, killing every ugly creature along the way… Enough said, check…
N900 Rigged As PlayStation 3 Controller
An alpha application for Nokia’s N900 allows the handset to operate as a mouse, keyboard, gamepad, media remote, or PlayStation 3 controller via Bluetooth. As you can see, after a relatively painless pairing process, BlueMaemo enables the N900 to operate as a directional pad. While I’m not sure how comfortable playing a proper game on…