MaemoWorld.org – your maemo and Nokia N900 resource

You want to see a few pictures taken with the N900? Yes? Well, here we go! I’ve uploaded a few pictures that will give you a good impression of the image quality. In the next days I’ll post some head to head comparisons with other phones. Thus, stay tuned.

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The Nokia N900 is a Maemo5 powered computer like phone. However, it’s not everything about the specifications but also about the design and the appearance. To show you the N900 we created a big N900 gallery with a lot N900 images.

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Do you remember and love Star Control 2 from 1992, a revolutionary adventure game which featured role-playing elements and 2D arcade-style space combat in the grand tradition of Space War?  If so, you will love the Ur-Quan Masters that is the free release of the Star Control 2 for your Nokia N900.

In your epic quest to overthrow the Ur-Quan overlords, you travel to remote star systems, gather resources, outfit your flagship, recruit alien allies, battle foes, and disrupt an enigmatic enemy tradition in time to prevent the annihilation of the entire human race! So, don’t hesitate and download this game for your N900.

Unfortunately I couldn’t install it on my N900 as I need Joydev. Thus, does it work for you? Please leave a comment.

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The Nokia N900 is a complex piece of technology. I can imagine that a few out-there want to know how it looks inside the N900. Of course, you shouldn’t open up your N900 and loose your warranty and destroy it. So you can take a look at the service manual in which you can see all parts. This disassembly reveals a lot how the N900 is built up. Enjoy

Zoutube is a YouTube client for your Nokia N900 which allows you to browse, search and watch Youtube videos. A simple front end to Youtube. On main screen just type to search or select from one of the many default categories like recently featured, most views, sports or movie. Another great feature is that you can download the videos easily. In order to download it you can use our download file below or go to the extras-testing catalogue in the application manager. One of the benefits of hes application is that you don’t need to fuzz with the big YouTube site and that you get to your videos ways faster Read the rest of this entry »

Check out this quick demo of WebGL content running in Firefox on the Nokia N900. WebGL should be available in Firefox for N900 nightly builds soon.

Via: Daily Mobile

Twitter is becoming more and more an important part of the mobile phone experience. At the moment there aren’t many twitter apps available for the N900. However, I found Hahlo to be very useful. Actually Hahlo isn’t a application you have to install but just a web application. Just point your Nokia N900 to Hahlo.com, sign in with your twitter name and enjoy the service. Hahlo offers you access to your direct messages, shows inline replies, mentions, shows pictures and much more. Furthermore you have a big variety of options to customize Hahlo. Read the rest of this entry »

The Nokia N900 is with its super sharp WVGA 3.5” touch screen and the 32GB built in storage a perfect video player. Without any further decoders it supports 3GPP formats (H.263), AVI, Flash Video, H.264/AVC, MPEG-4 and WMV. This already is quite a bit. Nonetheless some of you might miss a few formats. If so, you can go to the extras-testing catalogue and download Decoders Support. This application brings support for additional video and audio decoders:

• MKV support
• FLV support
• MPEG2 Transport Stream support
• AC-3 audio in video files support

In case you don’t have the extras-testing catalougue to download application:

Application manager –> Application catalogs –> New
Catalog name: maemo.org extras-testing
Web address: http://repository.maemo.org/extras-testing
Distribution: fremantle
Components: free non-free

The folks over at Nokia WOM World sent me a nice poster showing a sequence out of the latest N900 video. Apparently the video is really odd and not as normal and easy as other videos. Nonetheless it’s a indeed great video.  Thank you WOMWorld for the poster! Read the rest of this entry »

Nokia today released Qt 4.6 that makes it even easier for developers to create great applications for Symbian, Maemo, and other platforms. Qt allows to port applications easily from one platform to another.

Espoo, Finland – Nokia today released Qt 4.6, the latest version of the cross-platform application and UI framework. Featuring new platform support, powerful new graphical capabilities and support for multi-touch and gestures, Qt 4.6 makes developing advanced applications and devices easier and more enjoyable. Read the rest of this entry »