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Mozilla Releases Firefox Mobile 1.1 For Maemo Devices
Nokia N900 and N810 users who are looking for a powerful browser should be quite happy to hear that Mozilla has just launched its Firefox Mobile 1.1, offering Maemo-powered phones the same browser engine as Firefox 3.6 on the desktop. Aside from that,…
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Firefox 1.1 hits Maemo in final form, featuring Add-ons, Save to PDF and more
Two months after an impressive beta, Mozilla’s finalized its first full mobile browser for Maemo — beating iPhone, Android and most assuredly Windows Mobile versions to the punch. Though it doesn’t seem to have gained any new features in the interim,…
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Did Nokia just confirm a MeeGo tablet?
We’ve heard the rumors, hell, we’ve even seen Intel reference designs (pictured) running the MeeGo OS. But now we seem to have confirmation that a proper MeeGo tablet built by Nokia is on the way. Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia’s newly crowned chief of Mobile S…
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Nokia N900 drops to $369, unlocked
Hard to believe but after all this time the N900 remains the most powerful handset in Nokia’s vast collection of cellphones. No other Nokia handset even comes close and that won’t change until Nokia launches the Symbian^3-powered N8 or the MeeGo-powered N9. So if you’ve got the dough and a certain inclination to write Python scripts on a Friday night, you might want to think about sliding $369 (down from $649 at launch or $479 currently at Nokia USA) Espoo’s way for a crack at the ARM Cortex A8 slider. Sure, it’s not the freshest face on the block, but the development community will certainly help eek-out every last bit of value for many months to come.
P.S. Don’t forget to apply the coupon code LL17PBSTFKZ440 to get the reduced price.
Nokia N900 drops to $369, unlocked originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nokia to offer MeeGo handsets on June 30th in pre-alpha release
Nokia’s merger of its Maemo mobile OS with Moblin from Intel seem to have negatively affected the development of Nokia’s next generation OS for mobile devices, as the resulting MeeGo isn’t exactly flying out of Nokia’s doors anytime soon, although the pace seems much more brisk compared to Maemo’s progress. Early MeeGo builds for notebooks have already been spotted, holding some promise even though it isn’t the final polished product, and the Finnish cellphone company has just confirmed that they will be offering a pre-Alpha release of MeeGo for handsets at the end of this month, followed by a fully productized version sometime in October. This translates to actual MeeGo-supporting handsets to arrive shortly as well. Are you excited just yet?
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Nokia sells just 100,000 N900s after first five months: so? (updated: more like 5 weeks)
Look, the N900 might be sitting at the top of Nokia’s handset pyramid in terms of capabilities, but as we’ve said all along, the N900 is not a mass-market device. Nokia’s been very clear that the N900 was launched as a means to strengthen its Maemo development community (on the path to MeeGo we now know). And by all accounts, it’s done just that while winning a rabid fanbase of nerds in the process. Nevertheless, Reuters uses Gartner’s estimate of less than 100,000 units sold in the device’s first five months as proof that Nokia can’t mount a challenge to RIM and Apple. True the numbers are paltry compared to the 8.75 million iPhones Apple sold from January to March, but a more apt comparison might be the oft noted Nexus One sales that reached just 135k units moved after 74 days. Regardless, in its defense, Alberto Torres, head of Nokia’s solutions business said that “Sales have substantially exceeded expectations.” So yeah, Nokia has problems, but the N900 isn’t wasn’t one of them.
Update: While Nokia doesn’t normally give out detailed sales figures per device, we’ve just been told that more than 100,000 N900s sold in the first five weeks — not months — globally.
Nokia sells just 100,000 N900s after first five months: so? (updated: more like 5 weeks) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 May 2010 05:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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MeeGo 1.0 demoed on MSI netbook, looks shockingly stupendous (video)
You’ve already watched pre-release versions of MeeGo fly around on a number of netbooks, but if you’re still wondering if it’s worth your while to install v1.0 on your own machine, you owe it to yourself to have a look at the video posted after the break. The fine folks over at Liliputing have installed the fresh-out-of-the-lab operating system onto their MSI netbook in order to showcase some of the features, and frankly, we’re duly impressed by what we’re seeing. It’s clearly light on its feet, with an Expose-like shifting of screens happening at speeds which we previously only dreamed of seeing on an Atom-based rig. We can’t say the rest of the world is really ready to ditch Windows 7 for something as niche as this, but judging by this vid, you should probably give it a whirl. What’s to lose, right?
P.S. – Phoronix was able to run the new OS through the benchmark gauntlet, and it certainly showed up Ubuntu.
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MeeGo 1.0 demoed on MSI netbook, looks shockingly stupendous (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 May 2010 16:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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MeeGo 1.0 for netbooks and N900 now available to download
You’ve seen it teased, and now it’s time to shelve whatever you had planned for this evening (or morning, depending on your current coordinates) and slap the first bona fide 1.x MeeGo release onto whatever device you’ve got handy. As of right now, MeeGo v1.0 for Netbooks and v1.0 for Nokia N900 are available for download, with the former supporting Atom-based machines and the latter supporting… well, we’ll let you take a stab there. The API that’s being released includes Qt 4.6, and while the current SDK is tailored for netbooks, the next version — slated to hit devs in June — will support “touch-based devices, such as handsets and tablets.” We’re also told that v1.1 will be outed in October, with the development tree already being open. We’re certainly digging the layout shown here at a glance, but why not give that source link a visit and find out how it suits you in real life? We heard Snooki totally digs it, too.
[Thanks, Ernst]
MeeGo 1.0 for netbooks and N900 now available to download originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 May 2010 18:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nokia unveils 1.2 firmware update for N900
Nokia has rolled out the latest 1.2 firmware update for the N900 device, where it will offer a whole lot of changes that have been in waiting for so long by the Maemo user community. Expect a slew of features including Portrait mode in the browser, Facebook IM support, email fixes, Skype video calling, improvements in the Maps user interface and a bunch of other changes. Folks in the UK should have gotten theirs today already, while the rest of the world will just have to wait until tomorrow. Just make sure you make a backup of all your important data before performing the firmware update as you can never tell when something might just go wrong.
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Nokia updates N900 to version 1.2 in UK, closes door on MeeGo
You’ve overclocked it and hacked it to run OS X and Android, now you can return your N900 to its native Maemo 5 OS with the launch of a version 1.2 software update. The V10.2010.19-1 bump now available in the UK (global on Wednesday) packs several enhancements including face-to-face video calling, improved Ovi Maps, and a better email experience with bundled Facebook IM Chat and the ability to accept or decline event invitations from the inbox. You’ll also see a number of new games when the Ovi Store switches over on Thursday.
And after much speculation, Nokia’s also admitting that MeeGo will not be officially supported on the N900 once the Intel / Nokia OS is device ready. Nokia will continue to support the core Maemo OS, however, as demonstrated by today’s update. Regardless, we’re sure that the N900′s active fan-base will deliver a MeeGo update outside of official channels, especially since the N900 is already being used as a platform for ARM-based MeeGo development.
[Thanks, Pasu]
Nokia updates N900 to version 1.2 in UK, closes door on MeeGo originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 May 2010 03:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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ZTE has new V7 Mobile Internet Device on display
ZTE recently previewed their V7 Mobile Internet Device (MID) at the World Expo in Shanghai, where this slim and lightweight MID features a physical QWERTY keyboard that ought to make SMS and Twitter addicts happy. Apart from that, you get a 4.1″ touchscreen display at 800 × 480 resolution, coupled with a 3.2-megapixels camera that does video recording as well. A Marvell PXA310 806 MHz processor runs at the heart of things, and interestingly enough ZTE has adopted the Nokia Maemo OS instead of Android or other operating systems. You won’t run short of connectivity options with this puppy as it offers 3G CDMA1X, EV-DO and supports HSDPA, while integrating Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS support as well. No word on pricing or availability, but it would be nice to see the V7 hit the States to see how it will perform.
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ZTE packs 3G, Maemo into its V7 MID
ZTE packs 3G, Maemo into its V7 MID originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 May 2010 15:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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