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  Australian court might have barred from selling the specialized USB dongle that enabled PS3 jailbreak but hackers have found a new way to get the same result with a phone. The new PS3 jailbreak currently works only with Nokia’s N900 and Palm Pre but we think it is just a matter of time when [...]

  Nokia has officially announced its only-Maemo powered device in India. The N900 will start retailing from the latter half of this month for Rs. 30,639. The price may seem on the higher side but N900 brings some interesting specs to the table like an ARM Cortex A8 600MHz CPU, PowerVR SGX GPU with OpenGL [...]

  MeeGo has announced the release of the first version of MeeGo. The MeeGo Netbook user experience is understandably for the netbooks and will provide a stable environment for developers to develop apps as well as give a taste of the rich user experience on netbooks. The current build includes features like: – Visually rich [...]

  Nokia may lead the pack in the mobile handset race but when it comes to their smartphone market share, it’s totally a different story to tell. Nokia has evidently struggled to keep pace with the growing competition in the smartphone space but is trying their best to gain some lost ground. It has the [...]

  Good news for N900 users is that Nokia has released the impending v1.2 update for the Maemo5-based handset. The new update brings in a lot of improvements like menu system UI, email has been improved to allow users accept or decline invitation in their inbox, Facebook chat support as well as video calling is [...]

  If you ever felt N900’s Cortex A8 600MHz clock speed a bit underpowered, Maemo forum users have found a way to speed things up. By installing a modded kernel, a user can overclock the N900’s processor to a speedy 1GHz. This, as confirmed by modders makes the N900 fast but does with a few [...]

  Nokia N900 seems to be getting a lot of love from developers. After seeing couple of videos running Windows as well as Mac operating systems, developers have come forward to exploit the gaming part of it. One video uploaded on YouTube shows N900 flawlessly running Duke Nukem 3D with Wiimote acting as an controller [...]

  We’ve seen quite a few videos showing Nokia devices running Windows OSes but this seems to be the first time where a Nokia device, in this case N900, running Mac OS. User by the name of toninikkanen uploaded the video who claims to have used PearPC emulator. It took over 1.5 hours just to [...]

  Nokia had a N900 meetup in London and some executive from the marketing team blurted out that Nokia will drop Symbian from Nseries devices by 2012, which was later debunked by the Finnish company as “completely premature”. “While it is our policy not to disclose details of our product roadmap, we’d like to explicitly [...]

  Nokia also showcased its Maemo 5-powered N900 at the N97 mini unveiling. N900 looks and works much better compared to the Symbian counterparts. The 3.5-inch screen despite being resistive is responsive while its keyboard is nicely spaced out and comfortable to type on. Unfortunately, the chances of this being released in India looks very [...]

  It’s a good day today for the Finnish mobile maker as they have shipped the first batch of Maemo 5-powered N900 phone. N900 is seen as the first Nokia device that will help them grab some marketshare in the high-end phone market. The phone is now shipping to customers in Europe, Middle East, Russia [...]

  Windows OSes running on Nokia devices are not new but N900 was never put to this mindless test, until now. Some guy has posted a video running Windows 3.1 on N900 via a Dosbox app. With the rich hardware set it boasts, you would expect it to run pretty well but with ARM’s no [...]

  Nokia showered some love to developers today by announcing the creation of an official Qt port to Maemo 5 platform. This means Qt devs can easily port apps to the Maemo 5 platform that runs Nokia’s N900 device from other Qt supported platforms like Symbian, Windows Mobile and Maemo 6. The port will make [...]

  Nokia is surely building some excitement for next week’s Nokia World. Its the fourth announcement in four days and today marks an entry of N900, Nokia’s Linux-based Maemo 5 OS. Unlike previous attempts of hiding the processor info, Nokia this time, is boasting the integration ARM Cortex-A8 processor clocked at 600MHz with application memory [...]

  After teasing us with few pics of Maemo and the device, Eldar has finally posted his first impressions or the preview about Nokia’s N900 (RX-51) that runs the Maemo OS. Speaking of the OS, he felt it is still miles away of the iPhone OS but it found it to be more polished, faster [...]