Maemo 5 - Fremantle - New Features
Some details are beginning to emerge about the next major release of Nokia’s Maemo platform, Maemo 5, which is being codenamed Fremantle. Find out more here.
Mobile Firefox - Fennec
Mozilla developers have been working on building a version of Firefox specifically for mobile devices. This involves not only fine tuning the Firefox web browser but adding new features and changing some of the default functionality in Firefox in order to make it more usable on mobile devices.
The problem with mobile devices
Mobile devices have been [...]
Updating a N810 to Diablo (OS2008 aka maemo 4.1)
Upgrading to Diablo
Although it has been out for a while, I just recently had the opportunity to update to the latest OS 2008 (4.2008.23-14) which is based on maemo 4.1 codenamed Diablo.
No more flash upgrades thanks to SSU
Maemo 4.1 introduces a new feature called Seamless Software Update (SSU) which drastically changes how operating system updates [...]
Google’s Android software stack running on Nokia’s N810
Google’s Android mobile platform can now run on Nokia N810 and N800 internet tablets. Find out more details here.
Nokia N810 price drop… but not in Canada
Looking to buy an N810?
The Nokia N810 internet tablet has had a price drop in certain countries. Unfortunately Canada isn’t one of those locations… yet.
$90 drop in Nokia N810 price… for some
There were rumours the Internet Tablet Talk forums that the price for the N810 was going to drop from $479 to $289 on [...]
Nokia N830 sighting - is it a WiMax N810 or is it something more?
A new N-series Internet Tablet is born
Tablet-guru.com has a possibly leaked picture of what appears to be a Nokia N830. There appears to be some speculation that this is the new internet tablet from Nokia and that it will be introduced at the CTIA Wireless event at the beginning of April. There hasn’t [...]
Nokia buys Trolltech and QT
A few days after I pointed out that there is a QT4 port for Nokia’s Maemo platform, Nokia has announced that it is buying Trolltech the makers of the QT framework.
The 150 million dollar buyout has taken some by surprise as Nokia’s Maemo platform itself is closely aligned with the QT alternative GTK+ and Gnome. [...]
Java and Erlang on the Maemo platform (Nokia N810-N800-770 Internet Tablets)
Programming language choices on maemo
It appears that if you are looking at programming for the maemo platform which runs on the Nokia N810 and N800 internet tablets, your options of programming languages and GUI toolkits to choose from has quickly grown.
For a while now, besides C and C++ it was possible to create programs [...]
Buying a Nokia N810 in Canada
Canadians can finally buy Nokia N810 internet tablet IN Canada! That is right after being disappointed and left out with the previous releases of the N800 and 770 internet tablets, Nokia Canada is finally offering the N810 for sale on their website for $485 CAD. That is for those who aren’t content [...]
Nokia N810 (IT OS2008) firmware on the N800
As detailed on CNet, the Nokia N810 firmware has been leaked and people have been trying it out on the N800.
Some of the major features of the new OS:
Upgrade the processor speed from 320 MHz to 400 MHz
Now uses Mozilla browser instead of Opera
Improved Flash (and hence YouTube)
Linux kernel upgraded from 2.6.18 to 2.6.21
New mapping [...]
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