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[2 Aug 2010 | 8 Comments | ]
News from Maemo world – Flash tweaks, protection, updates

Maemo world, as long as N900 develops in many places, with many users writing, commenting and posting. Also all of you – readers take a part in society motion every day.
Flash version – how come does it matter?

Recently I’ve found pretty good analysis of Flash versioning and small inconsistency that makes Flash plugin vulnerable to version cheating. That’s why I feel more comfortable with testing Tweak Flash plugin version application, which may be helpful for everyone that wish to have Flash 10 enabled on N900.
Damage protection – microUSB port
Some poeople …

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[27 Jun 2010 | One Comment | ]
Gossips about MeeGo and future of Nokia smartphones

During last week you may have noticed many informations about Nokia changing smartphone platfrom from Symbian to MeeGo for good. But let’s take some facts under consideration first.
Only thing we know about upcoming Nokia smartphones with MeeGo on board is leaked video presenting Nokia N9 and some unconfirmed specifications. Only sure thing in all of this commotion is that Nokia is still working on MeeGo system, some of progress we can see in open-source projects related to this system, like Maemo 6/MeeGo UI Framework.
Among confirmed informations we have Nokia N8 …

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[21 Jun 2010 | 5 Comments | ]
Augmented Reality on N900 – proof of concept

Some time ago I’ve mentioned new ways of interaction with Nokia N900 with camera and face tracking. This time we can check ourselves how to use N900 and augmented reality, really nice concept of interaction with virtual items visible on device’s screen.
Augmented reality is technique that allows to enrich real space around us with virtual objects, which are visible using camera and screen of some sort. Such technology gives lots of possibilities of creating applications, like games of interacting with virtual objects and characters, or more practical like viewing meal …

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[14 Jun 2010 | 3 Comments | ]
Nokia N9 – successor of Nokia N900

We already know that Nokia is preparing new mobile phone as successor of Nokia N900. Maemo 6 UI Framework was already revealed as open source project, the only thing that’s not certain is hardware that will run Maemo 6/MeeGo.

Some fresh news uncover more details on Nokia N9, or what is known as leaked RX-99 device. It is said to have 64GB of internal memory (twice as much as N900), capacitive touchscreen (so one step ahead after resistive touchscreen in N900) and full QWERTY keyboard. You can already see short Nokia …

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[12 May 2010 | One Comment | ]
N900 Store Finally Live! Check the Opening Specials!

After months of hard work, studying the right look and layout, and what you (N900 user) truly need, the Nokia N900 store is completely ready and open!
As an opening special, we have an Anti-glare Screen Protector Shield for N900 at ONLY €3.99 with free shipping (check here how much it costs for you). As always, there is limited stock, so get one now!
We’ve got everything from car holders, protective transparent shields, leather covers, full housings, to car chargers and earphones. In order to cater to our global audience, we’ve included free shipping …

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[4 May 2010 | 18 Comments | ]
Warning! Leaked PR1.2 may damage your phone!

As I mentioned in previous news N900 was released in Hong Kong with PR1.2 software, just a day after Chinese websites announced leaked update, that you can flash to your device.
Changelog according to user who tried this update includes smoother scrolling, FM transmitter forcing for devices without hardware, new app manager and flash version and working USSD codes without using additional widget. Image to reflash N900 was uploaded to several sharing servers and are still available for download. Nevertheless Nokia reacted to this quite fast and tweeted warning message:
@nokconv Be careful! …

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[2 May 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
Some news and videos from N900 world

This time let’s have a look what’s going on all over the world.
N900 with PR1.2 available in Hong Kong!
We’re all waiting for new update but apparently Nokia wants to make us wait for PR1.2 some more time when users in Hong Kong will test it in the wild. During last few days it was released in there and some time after Jussi Mäkinen confirmed that it will be released soon for the rest of the world. I hope that ‘soon’ is a little bit closer than the one mentioned on …

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[27 Apr 2010 | 14 Comments | ]
Nokia N900 vs. Nokia N8

Recently there are so many news and gossips regarding new mobile devices that I’m lost sometimes. This time leaked information described new Nokia N8 and it was shortly followed by official announcement. If you want to know full story have a look at PhoneReport but now let’s see how does it compare to N900.
First of all Nokia reveals N8 as superior multimedia device with full variety of cver colors, 12 megapixel camera with high definition video recording capability. In comparison with N900′s 5 megapixel it’s quite big leap, but I’m …

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[14 Apr 2010 | 18 Comments | ]
Scared of breaking your N900? Here’s our tip

At the N900 blog we clearly care a lot for the phone. It is a very expensive smartphone, and it’s not easy to get the money to buy it, never mind replace one!

So, breaking it is clearly not an option. Even with warranty and insurance, you’ll still to pay a lot to get it fixed, so we found and tested a quick, cheap and easy way to protect your most-loved device: put a transparent sticker.
Well, not any sticker. These are transparent resistant stickers made to avoid breaking screens!
The one that …

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[13 Apr 2010 | 7 Comments | ]
Nokia C6 unveiled | N900 comparison

Although I just compared the Nokia N900 with the iPhone OS 4, I have to write outside my schedule about the new Nokia C6 unveil from today. The first impression to me was that Nokia brings a really nice looking professional smartphone to the market. You can discover a little similarity to the N97, only the keyboard is slided out like at the N900. It runs on Symbian S600 5th edition, got an 3.2 inch HD touchscreen, a four row keyboard and a five megapixel camera. These specks seems to …