When the Nokia N900 computer phone came out, one of the features that is lacking is MMS. Today, the first MMS app for the Maemo powered Nokia N900 is now available for download. The MMS mobile app is called fMMS. The Maemo app, developed using the python programming language, allows N900 mobile phone owners to send and receive MMS using a graphical frontend.
The Firefox Mobile team has made available Release Candidate 2 for the Maemo open mobile platform. You can download and install the new mobile Firefox version on your N900 computer phone by visiting the site http://firefox.com/m.
Firefox mobile for the N900 is currently the only mobile web browser that offers full desktop web browsing experience on a mobile device. It allows you to view even Adobe Flash content on the mobile browser.
Chris over at Chili Technologies has started working on a FourSquare app that will run on the N900 mobile phone’s Maemo platform. For the uninitiated, FourSquare is a web service that lets you “check-in” your location when you visit certain places like restaurants, coffee shops, bars, homes, offices. People who checks-in the most number of times in a location gets to be tagged as the location mayor. FourSquare, together with partners, also offers incentives when visiting certain locations.
The FourSquare Maemo app called barrioSquare is in it’s early stages and uses Python and QT bindings for Maemo. Chris is looking for help in developing the mobile app. If you’re interested you can contact him here. Once the barrioSquare app is up and running, FourSquare will be one of those location-based social app that will be available on major mobile platforms.
Well for those of us who have been waiting fervently for the Nokia N900. I am excited to tell you that the shipment of the Nokia N900 has started. After an initial target month of October, Nokia decided to postpone the delivery date to run more tests and get feedback from the users that were given pre-production units of the Nokia N900 at the Maemo summit.
Mozilla, the organization that manages the development and community collaboration for the Firefox web browser, has started developing a mobile version of its Mozilla Firefox web browser a while back. The Mobile Firefox version, officially know as Fennec, started out with a Windows Mobile version of the web browser. A version for the upcoming Nokia N900 connected phone that runs the new Maemo 5 mobile platform is also under development. In line with Mozilla’s thrust into the mobile space it has just announced the winner of its “Firefox goes mobile” design challenge. The winner is the PocketFox design by Yaroslaff Chekunov who hails from Russia.
The Nokia USA web site has now made available the landing page for the Nokia N900 mobile phone based on the Maemo 5 operating system. The Nokia N900 which has been previewed extensively looks like a very promising connected phone from Nokia. With preorders already available in Europe. Nokia USA preorders should be imminent. From the looks of it, the N900 version that will be available is not actually a North American version but it should work on the T-Mobile network in the US. Continue reading …
Wow! This is a shocker. Nokia has bought Symbian several months back with the intent of open sourcing the mobile operating system and using it in its next generation of touch screen based mobile phones. The acquisition cost about 400 million USD and from what I’ve read Nokia is considering to dump the mobile platform in favor of it’s Linux based Maemo open mobile platform. Maybe it’s the reason that leaked info about the next generation N900 Rover tablet is getting a 3.5 radio chip built-in. Continue reading …
Several years back, Nokia started a line of mobile tablets that runs Linux Maemo that sports keyboards and bigger screens. Today, I’ve just read from MobileCrunch that the successor to the N810 is already in the works. So what’s exciting about this?
Well Nokia is on its way into crossroads of blurring the line between its tablets and mobile phones because the N900 will not only have wifi but this time a GSM radio and HSPA. More about the specs later but what’s pretty cool is if the Nokia OVI store will gain huge acceptance the way the Apple Appstore has and everyone gets their favorite app on the N900 and all the other Nokia phones out there.
