Internet is the best place for searching informations, where we have Google – probably the best general search engine (in my opinion), and many specialized sites for movies (like IMDB) or Wikipedia for encyclopedic information. Right now you can search any of them using Ask Ziggy application on Nokia N900.
When you run the application you have a list of available search engines, every one has it’s own options, like language for IMDB and Wikipedia, or ‘from’ and ‘to’ languages for translator. Everything is easy to use, touchscreen friendly and quite …

When talking about web browsers it’s fair to mention Google’s product called Chrome. It has open source version called Chromium that is available also for N900.
I’ve never had more in common with Chrome than watching my collegues using it. Mobile version looks very similar, with tabs and toolbar on top. What’s not so nice it looks almost exactly the same, without any modifications for mobile device or touchscreen to improve usability. Same thing goes context menus and option screens, I find it hard to use them without stylus. Browsing is …

New technologies and platforms on mobile market is something normal nowdays, and some of this inventions use Linux as a base. Maemo 5 and the newest Android 2.1 are both based on Linux in a slightly different way.
In case of Maemo users get almost the same system as on desktop, with typical kernel and most of tools and utilities or at least their substitutes. This allows writing applications in similar way as for desktop, using C, C++, python etc. Android was in fact modified in almost every single detail, beginning …

I have been asked to do a new comparison between our Nokia N900 and the new Motorola Droid phone which Google is showing the power of their OS, Android. As usual I’m not going to talk about every spec from both phones, what I would do is to point out the differences and the some other important thins related to them.

First of all we got to highlight the OS. On the Nokia N900 we have the Maemo 5 which is a new OS that it’s really promising and most of …

I don’t know if some of you are familiar to this new technology that Google is introducing to us these days. So if you aren’t aware of this, please read first the title at the end of this post about Google Wave.
For all we that are expecting to have access to use this gorgeous tendency, I’m sure that this news makes you desire even more a Nokia N900. A few days ago, I saw a video about Google Wave running on the Nokia N900, but the quality wasn´t too good …