I’ve finally gotten a replacement Nokia N900 mobile phone from WomWorld / Nokia yesterday. The first thing I tried out on the N900 when I got it up and running yesterday was the web browser. I tried browsing the Connected Phone site to see if it will render properly on the N900 and it did. Before starting off several articles about the Nokia N900, I thought I’d post something about syncing the Mac OS X addressbook and calendar with the Maemo based Nokia N900.

Continue reading …

The loooong wait is over. Today, I received a trial unit of the Nokia N900 from WomWorld/Nokia. I am going to have the chance to use and try out the Maemo based Nokia N900 for 4 short weeks. After receiving the package, I quickly took the N900 out of the DHL packaging. I took some pics of it just to remind me that today I am actually going to have some hands-on with the N900.

Continue reading …

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.

Continue reading …

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.

Continue reading …

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.

Continue reading …

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.

Continue reading …

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 …

I have been looking into getting a mobile phone that is at least 800 pixel in landscape mode. The upcoming Nokia N900 (codenamed RX91 internally by Nokia) is one of those connected phone. The Nokia N900 uses Maemo, a Linux based open mobile platform. Another smartphone that is also cool that has been revealed recently is the Android based Sony Ericsson Xperial X3. Both of these devices are Linux-based by the way.

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.

Continue reading …