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Maemo Fanatics N9 Roundtable

August 19, 2010 Maemo News

By this time, you probably know what the picture above is. It’s the leaked prototype of Nokia’s upcoming, yet to be announced MeeGo flagship device, the N9. Now we could just post the leaked images, state the obvious (it’s got a touchscreen larger than 3″, a QWERTY keyboard, a camera with dual-LED flash and a [...]

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MeeGo: What it is and what it isn’t

July 13, 2010 Maemo News

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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PR1.2; The Aftermath

May 31, 2010 Maemo News

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

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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#MGoTO 1

May 11, 2010 Maemo News

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

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

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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Nokia wants to know what you think of the N900

April 15, 2010 Maemo News

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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Day 1 is here! MeeGo now available for the N900

March 31, 2010 Maemo News

The MeeGo community has announced today on their official blog that the MeeGo repositories are now open and the first build is available for Intel Atom-based netbooks (like the Nokia Booklet 3G), Intel Atom-based handsets (like the upcoming LG GW990) and of course, ARM-based handsets (*ahem* That’s the Nokia N900 in your hands).
From the MeeGo [...]