Dual booting Maemo 5 and Android on Nokia N900 |
A short video of the Nokia N900 dual booting Maemo 5 and Android 1.6. The touchscreen and keyboard still needs work, but its proof of concept
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yri4qOfP8T0&feature=player...
Photoshop Mobile lands on Android Market
Adobe announced the release of Photoshop Mobile 1.1 for Android, which adds numerous new editing effects to the app—all of which can be previewed and/or undone without harming the original photo.Among the new effects are Vibrant, which boosts photo colors—useful, given the flat look of many camera phone pictures—as well as Pop, which adds a ‘pop art’ style to images.
Nokia N900 pole dancing robots
Showing that this isn’t restricted to gaming or train timetable applications, Nokia proved just what the Nokia N900 is capable of last night, by revealing a couple of pole dancing robots, controlled entirely by the Finnish company’s range-topping smartphone.
Mac OS X 10.3 Running on Nokia N900
Not something you see that often, in fact this is probably the first time it has been accomplished. According to an article over on engadget, Toni Nikkanen of Finland has managed to hack Mac OS X onto the Nokia N900. via phonesreview.co.uk
Firefox Mobile 1.0 now available for the Nokia N900
w. It is a free web browser with the very compelling Weave Sync support to keep your Firefox experience synced across multiple computers.
Nokia N900 Can Be Used As A Wi-Fi Hotspot With Joiku
Joiku, who are a mobile software developer, have announced its JoikuSoft application will be coming to the Maemo platform. The software, which is already available on the Symbian platform, enables you to turn your mobile into a Wi-Fi hotspot. The Maemo version will mean you can use your Nokia N900 3G connectivity to share internet with your laptop and any other Wi-Fi device.
Firefox Mobile for Android coming in February 2010
The word hitting the net waves is that the mobile version of Mozilla’s Firefox browser may become available to the Android platform sometime in February according to a German website reports an article over on android spin.
Bad News: Firefox for Maemo (N900) Without Adobe Flash
Firefox for Maemo 1.0 RC3 may signal that we’re one step closer to getting a full-fledged Firefox browser on a mobile device, but the app has also taken a step back since RC2 emerged two weeks ago, shedding support for the Adobe Flash plug-in that Mozilla said in a blog post “degraded the performance of the browser to the point where it didn’t meet our standards.”
Nokia N900 Gets WiFi Tethering
Not to be outdone by competing smartphone platforms and their WiFi tethering options—most recently Verizon Wireless with the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus and the Mobile Hotspot app—third-party developer Joiku will be releasing a WiFi tethering solution for owners of the Nokia N900 will be getting a WiFi tethering solution for the Maemo-Linux device


