May 17

ZTE packs 3G, Maemo into its V7 MID

Posted in: maemo, MID, Today's Chili
Sure, Android has been getting plenty of attention from MID manufacturers as of late, but we all know that’s not the only mobile OS worth a gander. Debuted by ZTE “at a ceremony dedicated to the 3G technology” at Shanghai’s World Expo the V7 MID is roughly 4.7 x 3.3 x .5-inches and features the Maemo OS and — for those of you who value function over form — a physical QWERTY keyboard. Also on board are a 4.1 inch (800 x 480) display, a 3.2 megapixel webcam, and support for 3G CDMA1X, EV-DO, and HSDPA. But that ain’t all! Rounded out by a Marvell PXA310 processor (806 MHz), GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, micro USB, and an SD card slot, we imagine that all you mobile Internet fans will be able to put this thing to good use. No price or release date yet, those are but two of many mysteries this device raises. Which leads us to our next question: What goes on at a “ceremony dedicated to the 3G,” anyways?

ZTE packs 3G, Maemo into its V7 MID originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 May 2010 15:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 13

Aigo debuts Maemo-based Walkshow NX7001 MID

Posted in: maemo, MID, nokia, Today's Chili
We’re not quite sure what’s gotten into Aigo these days, but we’re not about to try to stop ’em — the company has just followed up its impressive-looking N700 Android tablet with this Maemo-based Walkshow NX7001 MID. While this one isn’t quite as sleek as the Android tablet and has a few drawbacks (a resistive touchscreen, for starters), it is a Mameo-based MID, which isn’t exactly all that common these days — DIY jobs aside. The rest of the device’s specs also look to be decent enough, if not necessarily all that impressive, including an 806MHz Marvell PXA310 processor, a 4.3-inch WVGA display, 128MB of RAM, built-in WiFi, 3G and GPS, dual cameras, and a microSD card slot for expansion. Still no word on a release date, but it looks like this one will set you back about $500.

Aigo debuts Maemo-based Walkshow NX7001 MID originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 May 2010 02:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 12

Archos 5 shown running Maemo, Android 2.0, but no Windows 3.11 yet (video)

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Archos 5 runs Maemo, Android 2.0, no Windows 3.11 yet (video)

With the Archos 5 we were shown that Android can be a legitimate media powerhouse. But, it’s tough for a player to be stuck with 1.6 while other devices have already broken in their 2.1 shoes. Fear not, as the device is showing to be generally receptive to tweaks, first being an install of Maemo that seemingly runs quite well but, with no WiFi support, is something of a non-starter at this point. Also now booting is Android 2.0, a clean port that was apparently quite easily installed on the device but, sadly, doesn’t work with the touchscreen, meaning it is even more useless at this point. Maybe if you’re willing to lend a hand you can help to get one or the other rather more functional — or maybe 1.6 doesn’t look so bad anymore. Videos of both alt-OSes are after the break, and installation instructions are at the source links.

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May 12

Opera Mobile 10 lands on Maemo thanks to pro hobbyists

Posted in: maemo, nokia, Opera, Today's Chili

What do you know, even professional coders like to develop things on the side. Opera‘s mobile dev team has been working on a “hobby project” to bring its browser to the Maemo-sporting Nokia N900 and N8x0 devices, and today sees the first fruit of that labor in the form of a “preview build” release. Fredrik Ohrn warns us that there might not ever be a final version, since this is being done just for fun — and particularly in light of the MeeGo future that awaits the platform — but for now it’s yet another option for your versatile mini-computer. Click the source for the download.

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Opera Mobile 10 lands on Maemo thanks to pro hobbyists originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 May 2010 08:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 15

Intel gives MeeGo 1.0 its first public performance (video)

Posted in: intel, Linux, maemo, meego, nokia, open source, opensource, Today's Chili, video

Here we go open source fans, the first debut of MeeGo 1.0 running on Intel silicon — an Acer Aspire One netbook (the 532h, from the looks of it) with a Pinetrail processor to be precise — sporting a simplified UI that looks to have inherited far more Moblin DNA than Maemo. You’ve got tasks, appointments, most-used apps, and a quick-launch bar all up front. We’re also seeing 3D gaming support; Zones, Applications, People, Internet, Media and Settings tabs; and real-time social networking integration for Twitter, Facebook, and instant messaging with task bar alerts. Can’t wait to see how the MeeGo user experience translates to a smaller, say, 4.8-inch Moorestown device or the TI OMAP-based followup to the Nokia N900 later this year. Until then, check the video after the break.

Update: Second video added showing MeeGo running on a TV, an unidentified AAVA Moorestown-based smartphone (see after the break), and digital coupon machine. It’s worth mentioning that this is Intel’s take on the MeeGo UI and Nokia’s will likely look much different. [Thanks, Atlantian, pdexter]

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Intel gives MeeGo 1.0 its first public performance (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 13

MeeGo Gone Wild! Features detailed, companies come on board at IDF 2010 (updated)

Posted in: flash, handheld, intel, Linux, maemo, meego, mobile, Mozilla, netbook, smartphone, Today's Chili
Wow, the MeeGo news is flying fast and furious today! Our first stop is the Intel Developer Forum, where a recent talk detailed feature lists for netbooks and handhelds running (presumably) 1.0. For the former, you can expect to see it rockin’ Chrome (or Chromium), and overhauled social messaging, media, camera, email, and calendar apps. That’s in addition to touch and gesture support. As for handhelds, Fennec with Flash support popped up on the slides (probably a carry-over from Maemo, since they already have Mozilla with Flash), VOIP (at least until the carriers get involved), instant messaging, social networking, location-based services, cloud data syncing, and portrait mode support — not to mention “the Intel app-store framework that can be used to make branded 3rd-party app stores.” But that ain’t all! According to some freshly minted PR, the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco will be lousy with developers starting Wednesday when the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit begins in earnest. To be announced at tomorrow’s keynote are a host of companies that are throwing their lot in with the mobile OS, including: EA Mobile, BMW Group, Acer, Gameloft, Novell, ASUS, and more. Which is all well and good, but the question remains: when are we finally gonna get our hands on an LG GW990? PR after the break.

Update: We added a couple shots of the very in-progress UI from Intel’s slide show. See more after the break.

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MeeGo Gone Wild! Features detailed, companies come on board at IDF 2010 (updated) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 09

Google’s Chromium project ported to N900

Posted in: Chrome, Google, maemo, nokia, Today's Chili, web, web browser, WebBrowser

Web browsing fiends of the world already have enough reason to envy N900 owners on account of the built-in browser’s excellence and the availability of an official Firefox release — both with full Flash support — but if that’s enough, there’s now another name-brand option in the works. Well, sort of. You see, Chromium for Maemo isn’t an official port — but the Maemo community is filled with tinkerers, and that has inevitably led to the availability of a hacked version of the Debian release that apparently works quite wonderfully on the N900 (yes, including Flash) with a 100 score on the elusive Acid test. It’s said to be a little buggy at the moment, so hopefully that’ll improve over time; you’ve got to download and install the package manually rather than going through a repo, but as an N900 owner, odds are pretty good that you’re familiar with the tactic already. Perhaps Google wants to take this little project over?

[Thanks, Sp4mer]

Google’s Chromium project ported to N900 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 05

Nokia N900 overclocked to 1GHz in bid to outrun obsolescence (video)

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Given all the Cortex A8 processor clock tweaking going on we admit to being just a little surprised to be reading the first overclocking reports on the eminently hackable N900 only now. Nevertheless, owners are seeing significant speed improvements after updating their stock 600MHz QWERTY sliders with recompiled kernels (no CPU voltage hacks required). Although speeds in excess of 1GHz have been tested (1,050MHz still boots), it looks like 900MHz is the maximum stable clock speed you can expect before the doors rattle off — but that’s only after a weekend of testing. If things continue to go well then you’ll see tweaked kernels of various clock speeds released for download soon enough — something that should keep the device humming right through the commercial launch of MeeGo whether Nokia likes it or not. Check the video after the break and then follow the latest developments in the maemo.org forums by hitting up the source link below.

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Mar 27

Nokia N900 Maemo / MeeGo dual boot ‘will come at some point,’ but not next firmware

Posted in: firmware, maemo, meego, nokia, Today's Chili, update, upgrade

Quim Gil of Nokia’s Maemo team has dropped some knowledge on the folks chatting up the upcoming MeeGo release in the official Maemo forums, and it sounds like there are at least a couple critical points to be aware of for N900 owners and would-be ROM flashers when the first developer preview drops next week. To quote Gil, “nothing beautiful, stable or fully featured” will be a part of that initial release — and to be more blunt about it, “99% of you don’t want to install that release in your N900.” The good news, though, is that Nokia seems to be aware of the importance of a dual-boot solution to MeeGo devs working with N900s in the long term, and Gil reports that a proper setup for that “will come at some point” — it’s just not on their short-term radar. We can totally understand that; we’ve no doubt there’s still tons of reconciliation to manage between the legacy Maemo and Moblin ecosystems, and that’s presumably priority one as they march toward a May release of what’s being billed as a MeeGo 1.0 release.

Speculation had been building that the next cut of Maemo 5 — PR1.2 — might have MeeGo dual boot capability, but it’s not to be. That said, PR1.2’s still got plenty of tweaks that should be of interest to N900 owners, including a totally revamped landscape on-screen keyboard, onboard memory wipe capability (thank goodness), and an option to enable auto-rotation in the device’s settings. The forums are all abuzz over both topics, naturally — and since a proper PR1.2 release for N900 is still just a twinkle in Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo’s eye, you may as well have a peek, right?

[Thanks, Akinwale]

Nokia N900 Maemo / MeeGo dual boot ‘will come at some point,’ but not next firmware originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mar 20

Sygic Mobile Maps for Nokia N900 brings turn-by-turn to Maemo

Posted in: gps, maemo, navigation, nokia, Today's Chili
Nokia may still not have brought turn-by-turn navigation to Maemo with its own Ovi Maps, but N900 users can now get their fix courtesy of Sygic, which has just released a version of its Mobile Maps app for the device. Available only in Europe to start with, the app costs €60, and includes maps of both eastern and western Europe, along with the usual “millions” of points-of-interest, speed camera locations and speed limit warnings, and plenty of customization options (including support for multiple languages). No firm word on availability outside of Europe just yet, but Sygic does say that additional regions will be announced “gradually.” Head on past the break for a quick demo video.

[Thanks, Brad C]

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Sygic Mobile Maps for Nokia N900 brings turn-by-turn to Maemo originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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