ABI Research’s analysts are obviously bullish about Linux on mobile phones, as we have the research company forecasting that Linux-enabled smartphones, led by the success of the Android platform, will comprise 33% of the worldwide smartphone market by 2015. The reason behind their thinking is obvious – at the moment, there are more than 60,000…
SPB Brain Evolution released for the Nokia N900 as a free download
SPB Software is bringing its popular puzzler SPB Brain Evolution to yet another platform. After the iPhone, Windows Mobile and Symbian, it’s the Nokia N900 owners that will be able to train their brain and “improve memory, logic, arithmetic and puzzle-solving skills.” Inside the Maemo version, you will find a suite of 12 mini-games, which…
Telefonica: We’re on board for MeeGo!
MeeGo got a new and big supporter – Spain’s Telefonica. The company pledged to support the Linux-based platform which was unveiled at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona by Intel and Nokia. In a statement, the operator group said it will use MeeGo to deliver products such as “smartphones, netbooks, tablets, and internet connected…
Screenshot: MeeGo for mobile phones, the dial a number menu
MeeGo is what happens when Intel takes Nokia out to the prom and forgets the box of condoms that were handed out earlier in the school year at health class. It’s a huge effort to bring Linux, and more importantly the Qt runtime, to millions of devices. Whether or not you think it’ll be successful…
LiMo Foundations: We’ll have three major operators offering LiMo-powered handsets this year
LiMo Foundation refuses to die. I guess it’s the carriers to blame as they don’t like when a third-party — whether it’s a dedicated platform developer or handset maker — controls the user experience. Anyway, they announced that three major operators will offer LiMo-powered handsets this year. So far only Vodafone has launched a LiMo…
Nokia N900 firmware 1.2 coming this week: video calling, Facebook IM, portrait web browsing
Nokia’s N900 has a spotty reputation. It was the device many people were looking to redeem the Nokia N97, which caused many headaches among the enthusiast crowd. Problem was the N900 wasn’t really meant for consumers, it was still viewed as an unpolished product meant for the die hards who wouldn’t mind playing with their…
LiMo-powered Samsung I8330 H2 coming to Vodafone?
After the 360, Vodafone will apparently be adding a new Samsung’s LiMo device to its portfolio. The rumor says it will be marked as the I8330 H2 and will be launched in time of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Specs wise, we’re talking about quite a capable phone which specs include a large…
MeeGo 1.0 shown off in Beijing, China [Your mobile phone will not look like this, neither will Maemo]
Earlier this year, at Mobile World Congress in February, Intel and Nokia announced that they were going to merge their Mobiln and Maemo projects together and form MeeGo. This hodge podge of operating systems, one meant for x86 based netbooks, the other for ARM based mobile phones, would be managed by the Linux Foundation and…
Fishlabs working on a game for Nokia’s tablet?
First we heard a rumor that Nokia is working on its own tablet and now apparently we have one of the major gaming publishers saying they’re already preparing a game for the forthcoming device. It gets kinda crazy, though I doubt the Finnish giant wants to miss the new tablet wave. The gaming publisher is…
Nokia N900 overclocked to 1GHz!
The Nokia N900 comes with quite fast 600MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, which is also found in some other products like the iPhone 3GS and Palm Pre. If that’s not good enough for you and you’re willing to do some hacking, apparently you could make your Maemo baby joins the 1GHz race. That’s exactly what…