I just came back from the first of six international Nokia N900 meetups. The Helsinki event took place in none other than the Nokia Flagship Store, a shop that I used to visit quite often during my usual daily strolls down main street, but have lately been ignoring due to Nokia’s present uninspiring portfolio of…
Video: Nokia N900 running Google Wave
We’ve already seen how to BitTorrent stuff from the Internet with the Nokia N900. Now we have a video of the same device running Google’s latest product – Wave. As you’re about to see, things don’t run too smoothly — there’s some lag between the keyboard and text box — but overall the experience is…
Is this the Nokia N920?
We’ve no doubts Nokia plans to invest heavily in its Linux-based Maemo platform. Their N900 is certainly one of the best mobile phones on the market today and on that note we bring you this story/rumor, which involves the next generation of the company’s Internet Tablet devices. What you see above is apparently the Nokia…
Motorola: We’re not THAT interested in LiMo Foundation
Long were the days when Motorola could support multiple platforms. At one point, the American company worked on Windows Mobile, Linux and Symbian (UIQ) devices. That’s changing obviously, and now we have Moto scaling back from the LiMo Foundation, which it helped cofounded. The reason seems obvious – it’s Android they want to focus on,…
Video: Browsing on the Nokia N900 rocks!
Nokia has prepared a video to demonstrate just how powerful their Maemo-powered N900 is powerful for web browsing. First we have Mikko Mikko “>Korpelainen (Senior Product Manager) explaining why the N900’s browser “brings full Internet to your pocket.” There are five components, according to Mikko: latest web technologies (Mozilla based browser), full Flash support, performance…
Hands-on the Nokia N900 at CTIA Fall 2009
CTIA Fall 2009 isn’t the biggest show we’ve ever been to. In fact, this particular conference might be the smallest CTIA we’ve ever attended. But, that doesn’t mean there’s a lack of cool hardware to ogle on the showfloor. Take the Nokia N900 for example. It’s Nokia’s latest Nseries smartphone, and the first of the…
Motorola Leaves LiMo Foundation Board
The LiMo Foundation has been tacking on members here and there, but they just lost the better part of a major one: Motorola. Moto’s VP of software apps and ecosystems, Christy Wyatt, has left the board, but the company will stick around as a standard contributing member. Moto’s love affair with Android lately has been…
Video: Nokia N900, with SNES emulator installed, hooked up to a TV, playing Super Mario World
The amount of lawyers with dollar bills in their eyes right now is astronomically large. Lawsuit waiting to happen aside, what you’re about to see below is Urho Konttori, Project Manager at Nokia, with a Super Nintendo emulator called DrNokSnes installed on his Nokia N900. He hooked up a Nintendo Wii controller to it, which…
nüvifone G60 gets Official on AT&T – Landing October 4
After meandering the Asian world, Garmin-asus is bringing their nüvifone brand to North America on October 4 care of AT&T; that $299.99 pricetag rumour was dead on. The G60 nüvifone runs on Linux, rocks a 272 x 480 WQVGA touchscreen, 3 megapixel camera with autofocus, 2.5 mm headphone jack (boo), and true to Garmin’s DNA,…
Intel throws down with Moblin mobile operating system at IDF09
The mobile OS space is getting more and more crowded. Newcomer mobile operating systems like Palm’s webOS, Google’s Android OS are giving industry leaders like Windows Mobile, iPhone OS and Symbian S60 a taste of fierce competition. Intel apparently wants in on the party. Intel’s product manager Claire Alexander unveiled the company’s Linux-based Moblin operating…