MaemoWorld.org – your maemo and Nokia N900 resource

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 »

Today, at its annual Capital Markets Day event, Nokia set key targets and forecasts for the company and its industry for 2010. Senior company executives outlined how Nokia’s focus on execution combined with its core competitive advantages, position the company to achieve and sustain broad-based success in the mobile devices market. At the event, Nokia also demonstrated significant improvements to its forthcoming version of the Symbian user interface.

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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 »

Maemo 5 is available in landscape mode mostly. Only the phone app, photo browser and some 3rd party application run in portrait mode. Thus, two hands are required that is sometime annoying. Now, Guyver from talk.maemo.org managed to run the Nokia N900 in portrait mode: Read the rest of this entry »

One of my favorite features of the Nokia N900 is the TV-Out function. With the video-out cable, which came with the N900, you can connect the N900 to a TV-Set or a projector which will mirror the N900. This is really useful for sharing pictures and videos with your family and friends. In the following video I’ll not only show the TV-Out function but also give you a demonstration of the new UI.
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Maemo 5 is a PC like operation system for mobile handsets like the Nokia N900. Thus, you have the basic shortcuts you have on your PC. In case you don’t know these shortcuts we have listed all keyboard shortcuts here:

General:

Ctrl + C= Copy text
Ctrl + V= Paste text
Ctrl + Backspace= From within an application this will take you back out to the visual task manager
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Finally the day has come. We received our N900 review unit. The first impression is really positive and I already got a glimpse how powerful the N900 is. However, after  a few years with Symbian I need to get used to Maemo and the N900. As for now I have a unboxing video for. Expect further content in the next days, weeks and months.

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With some delay the Nokia N900 is finally available in the first countries like in Austria and the United States. Further countries will follow in due course. The N900 is priced at USD649.

Nokia today announced that the highly anticipated Nokia N900 is now on sale in the United States and shipping to consumers who jumped on the opportunity to be among the first to pre-order the Maemo-powered mobile computer. With the Linux-based Maemo platform and with multiple ways to connect to the Internet, the Nokia N900 enables users to be online as it happens with a powerful computer in the palm of their hands. Read the rest of this entry »