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Hacked N900 blazes through Froyo
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While the various and sundry Android manufacturers are all scrambling (or casually strolling) toward official Android 2.2 updates for their manifold handsets, someone managed to get Google’s Froyo running on the Nokia N900. Turns out, the two are a pretty great pair, with some super speedy browsing (like, really fast) and decent hardware support outside of an unfortunate lack of memory card support. Hit up the video after the break to see it in action, the browser starts kicking around the 4:45 mark.
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Hacked N900 blazes through Froyo originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nokia N9/C0 Pictured?
Pictures of an unknown Nokia phone have surfaced, and it looks very much like a successor to the N900. There wasn’t an official model number attached to it, but the label at the top of the phone lists it as “C0″, which could indicate that this phone will be part of Nokia’s C-series mobile phones. Technical details of the device weren’t available, but we do know that it has an 8-megapixel camera and supports the 850/1900MHz 3G bands, which means support for AT&T, Rogers, Telus, and Bell. It’s also worth noting that it’s powered by Symbian, and since Nokia has said that future N-series phones will not be powered by Symbian, it does fuel the speculation that it’ll be a C-series device. Based on the pictures, what do you think of this phone?
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Nokia N9 (or something) in the wild: 8 megapixel camera, American 3G?
We told you, didn’t we? Whether you want to call this the N98, the N900′s successor, or the N8 plus QWERTY, what you’re looking at above is potentially the visage of Nokia’s next smartphone. It’s being dubbed the N9 by the folks at Negri Electronics, who also inform us it has an 8 megapixel imager on the back, 850 / 1900 3G bands (good for AT&T, Rogers, Telus, and Bell), and “ridiculous screen clarity.” This sort of throws us for a loop, since we’re looking at some straight Symbian action up there, whereas Nokia has told us directly that there’ll be no more Symbian on the N Series after the N8. A clue to what might be going on is provided by the “C0″ label at the upper left corner of this device, suggesting that it could be a future C Series member. All we know is that the thing seems pretty real and it’s headed to a full video review in the next few days. Yay!
[Thanks, Jason]
Nokia N9 (or something) in the wild: 8 megapixel camera, American 3G? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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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: pre-alpha release of MeeGo for handsets coming June 30th
Nokia: pre-alpha release of MeeGo for handsets coming June 30th originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Meego handset UI guidelines offer details aplenty, suggestion of WebOS, Android influences
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Meego handset UI guidelines offer details aplenty, suggestion of WebOS, Android influences originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nokia’s 16 model house reveals a smokin’ S series, N9 MeeGo?
Lovely home except for those pesky leaks. This Nokia house built (circa 2010) upon on a foundation of Symbian with a MeeGo roof is also sporting an interesting looking S-series smokestack. Most of the building blocks we’ve already seen including the flagship N8. The N9 is almost certainly Nokia’s followup to the N900 and Espoo’s first handset to feature its new MeeGo OS. But what’s with the business-class E7, mainstream C7, and socially entertaining X7? None of these handsets have been announced, yet all three are at the top-end of their respective series meaning more functionality at a higher price. Still, the most interesting revelation is the S-series which Nokia has never referenced under its new naming scheme. The translated text from the S-series bullet describes it as, “A name reserved for limited phones. Mobiles that do not fit in other categories come in here.” The first Moorestown phone to run MeeGo, perhaps? Hey, we can dream.
[Thanks, Mark]
Nokia’s 16 model house reveals a smokin’ S series, N9 MeeGo? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nokia’s €15 bike charger will abide
We’ve been seeing dynamo-powered gadget bicycle chargers for, well, ever. But it’s good to see a company with the global reach of Nokia getting into the action with a €15ish kit all its own. Nokia says that a 10 minute bike ride at 6mph (10kph) will produce enough power for 28 minutes of talk time or 37 hours of standby. The kit, primarily intended for developing markets, ships globally before the end of the year with a handlebar mount, dynamo, and 2-mm charger jack. But there’s nothing stopping you from picking up a micro USB adapter (at your own cost) and using the charger with Nokia’s smarter (and more power hungry) handsets like the N97, N900 and forthcoming N8** — any micro USB handset really, regardless of vendor. Coupled with Nokia’s free turn-by-turn guided Ovi Maps, the kit could be quit handy when navigating the countryside on a long weekend bike ride, or for navigating within cities, like, oh we don’t know, Amsterdam.
** Nokia N8 can be charged over 2mm or micro USB connectors, fancy.
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Nokia’s €15 bike charger will abide originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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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 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 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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Android OS Crammed Into Nokia’s N900
Another day, another device that wants to be able to run Google’s Android. We’re talking about Nokia’s Maemo-powered N900. We previously mentioned that the device would dual-boot with Android, but the latest implementation, known as NITDroid, seems more refined as you’ve got a working touchscreen, usable QWERTY keyboard, faster boot times, better display resolution and can even recognize the N900’s internal memory. The icing on the cake is that it also seems to be running Android 2.1 (Éclair). Check out the video in the full post. What device do you think that Google’s Android will be crammed into next?
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