A day in the life of Danny D’Amours

Sneak peak of Nokia RX-51 aka Nokia N900

Mobile review provided a sneak peak at the soon to be released Nokia RX-51 aka Nokia N900. This new internet tablet / phone which has also been referred to as Rover, is a follow on to their N810 internet tablet which received critical acclaim but remained more of a niche product with out the [...]

August 20th, 2009 Posted by Danny D'Amours | Nokia N900/N810/N800/770, Tech | no comments

VMware MVP Mobile Virtualization

Not content to have the dominant position in the data center virtualization market with its VMware Infrastructure products including the widely used ESX, VMWare strikes out on another platform : mobile devices.
Virtualizing mobile devices
VMware MVP(Mobile Virtualization Platform) is a  product which allow mobile operating systems to be virtualized.  A small piece of code (about 20k) [...]

May 27th, 2009 Posted by Danny D'Amours | Android, Nokia N900/N810/N800/770, Tech | no comments

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.

October 31st, 2008 Posted by Danny D'Amours | Nokia N900/N810/N800/770 | one comment

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 [...]

September 3rd, 2008 Posted by Danny D'Amours | Nokia N900/N810/N800/770 | no comments

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 [...]

August 15th, 2008 Posted by Danny D'Amours | Nokia N900/N810/N800/770 | no comments

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.

April 8th, 2008 Posted by Danny D'Amours | Android, Nokia N900/N810/N800/770 | no comments

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 [...]

March 15th, 2008 Posted by Danny D'Amours | Nokia N900/N810/N800/770 | one comment

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 [...]

February 21st, 2008 Posted by Danny D'Amours | Nokia N900/N810/N800/770 | no comments

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