MeeGo: What it is and what it isn’t – Part Deux

by Simon on July 30, 2010

Within the past month or so a lot has subsided, namely, Ricky Cadden (of Symbian-Guru) has decided to drop Nokia/Symbian and move to a Nexus One and the Android platform. This (and other things) has sparked a lot of talk concerning Nokia hardware coupled with Google’s Android platform. Kyron cleared a lot of air [...]


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Nokia N900 for $1? Get outta here!

July 27, 2010 Site Updates
Nokia N900 $1

Most of you guys probably already have a Nokia N900, but why not get a second? “Cuz it’s too damn expensive, Mike!” Yeah…but right now you can get it for a dollar… if you pay attention. You can use it for (even more) testing & hacking, keep it and give your old N900 to a [...]

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MeeGo: What it is and what it isn’t

July 13, 2010 Maemo News
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I’m back from my involuntary sabbatical (Technical difficulties; I had the motherboards in both of my PCs fry in the span of 48 hours) and not much has changed in the landscape of the mobile industry. It has become very difficult for me to hide that I’ve become disillusioned with the state of things. Nokia [...]

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Documents to Go Premium. A Quick Preview

July 11, 2010 Maemo Apps
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Dataviz’s Documents To Go is a well recognized and popular document viewer and editor. It’s currently available for the iPhone, Blackberry, Android, UIQ, WebOS and now the N900 platform. The DocsToGo viewer came bundled on the N900 with a 30 day trial. Unfortunately the Premium Editor is not available in the Ovi Store nor directly [...]

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Widgetizing your N900

June 3, 2010 Maemo Tips & Tutorials

Widgets; love ‘em or hate ‘em – they serve a good purpose – beer included. Most devices that provide a customizable homescreen (Android, WebOS, Symbian and Maemo 5), use widget entries as “feeds” to information or shortcuts to applications. I previously took a look at my favorite weather widgets and decided that while the great [...]

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PR1.2; The Aftermath

May 31, 2010 Maemo News
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Just about a week after PR1.2 hit globally, a lot of users have been able to officially update their N900’s. Some for the worse, the majority for the better. Unfortunately, along with all the bugfixes and improvements that PR1.2 brought, some things were overlooked and others caused popular applications (that had not been updated using [...]

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PR1.2 Hitting the Streets

May 25, 2010 Maemo News
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As of last night at around 1:30 AM, PR1.2 official began trickling out to users in the UK region. Although it hasn’t been long since the leaked release, there has been much anticipation and will be a lot of happy users. Many of you have installed customized tweaks, upgraded kernels and perhaps, the early RC [...]

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Who says there are no apps for Maemo – Part II

May 24, 2010 Maemo Apps
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This is Part 2 of 2 to my feature on apps for the Maemo 5 platform. In case you missed Part 1 or if you just want to read it again, click HERE
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The N900 ships with an RSS app and homescreen widget that does exactly what it is advertised to do and [...]

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Who says there are no apps for Maemo – Part I

May 20, 2010 Maemo Apps
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If there is one complaint that I hear about the N900 more than anything else, it’s that there is a lack of apps for the device and the Maemo operating system as a whole. Thanks to Apple and their “There’s an app for that” ad “campaign” (more like assault), the focus has been taken off [...]

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N900 Streaming Fun

May 19, 2010 Maemo Tips & Tutorials
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One of the major media points on Maemo 5 and the N900 is the ability to pull DLNA-certified streams. Many a nice piece of hardware, such as the PS3, XBOX360 as well as any out-of-the-box Windows computer (XP, Vista and 7) support it. There are also a plethora of excellent free media streaming clients for [...]

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Weather on the N900

May 14, 2010 Maemo Apps
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I’m new to the MaemoFanatics team but not new to the platform. My first post (of many) will be a quick look at Foreca Weather and OMWeather.
I love being able to see what the weather is like, at a quick glance. Both applications provide a desktop widget with current and upcoming conditions.

Both applications feature multiple [...]

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#MGoTO 1

May 11, 2010 Maemo News
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A week ago, I attended the very first Mobile Geeks of Toronto at The Drake Hotel event hosted by Tom Hall of WOMWorld. Mobile Geeks of Toronto is a spinoff of James Whatley’s very successful Mobile Geeks of London events. The events provide an opportunity for mobile enthusiasts to get together to talk about mobile [...]

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Portrait mode on the N900 coming in PR1.2

May 8, 2010 Maemo News
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As I continue to use the release candidate of the PR1.2 firmware for the N900 that leaked last weekend, I’m discovering new settings, new bugfixes and new features. This morning, thanks to a tip from Simon of knownokia.ca, we’ve discovered that Nokia has enabled automatic rotation just about everywhere in PR1.2. It is as simple [...]

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Mobile Geeks of Toronto

May 5, 2010 Maemo News
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UPDATE: Unfortunate news outta Toronto, Tom Hall sent out a message a few minutes ago saying that the event has been postponed. It turns out that Samir has been stranded in Europe due to all air traffic being grounded over the past few days because of that volcanic ash problem. The new date is tentatively [...]

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N900 springs a leak! PR1.2 in the wild

May 2, 2010 N900 Firmware
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So it looks like someone got tired of waiting for Nokia to release the long awaited (and arguably much needed) PR1.2 for the N900 and leaked it to the interwebs. Late last night, firmware build ‘RX-51_2009SE_10.2010.12-9_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM’ could be found on torrent and filesharing sites all over the web and many users (this writer included) have [...]

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Note to the Nokia MeeGo team: The small things the Nokia MeeGo N– must not overlook

April 21, 2010 Maemo Rants & Suggestions
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Admin Note: Everyone welcome Will.I.Be — Maemo Fanatics newest author. Check out his bio and twitter link below this article.
Ovi compatibility from day one.
Both Mac, PC and Linux
Everybody knows that not all Nokia mobile users are PC users, especially high end users like the current Maemo/MeeGo user base. Reluctantly I can forgave Nokia for not [...]

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Nokia wants to know what you think of the N900

April 15, 2010 Maemo News
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maemo.nokia.com is looking for feedback on the N900 now that it has been on the market for roughly 6 months and they’ve posted a DEEP survey to gather your thoughts on Nokia’s current flagship device (What’s an N97? )
The entire survey should take you roughly 15 minutes to complete and it is your typical [...]

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