WINE RUNNING ON THE NOKIA N900

RM based superphone N900 running the x86 wine binary via a statically compiled arm qemu binary, within an x86 chroot.

OPERA MOBILE 10 BROWSER FOR THE NOKIA N900

The Opera Mobile 10 browser got released today for the Maemo devices such as the Nokia N900.This Maemo version of Opera Mobile 10 was created as a hobby project by a small team of developers in their spare time. In total, about 6 man-weeks were spent on creating the release. It’s worth pointing out that this is not an officially-supported release. As such, it has not undergone our usual quality assurance processes, and at times may not feel as polished or complete as an official release. This also means that there may never be a “final” release of Opera Mobile 10 for Maemo devices, since it’s just that much more fun to add shiny new features rather than fixing boring old bugs.
There are a number of known issues with this build, listed below:

• Adobe Flash and other plugins are not supported.
• Screen tearing may be visible when panning, especially in portrait mode. We expect to fix this in a future update.
• The built-in on-screen keyboard is not supported. Use the physical keyboard or the on screen keyboard included with Opera Mobile.
• There is no power management support. In practice this means that if you open a page with animations and leave Opera running, you will soon be using a payphone. Power is drained even when Opera is running in the background and/or the screen is turned off.
• If you set Opera as the default browser, for example by installing the Browser Switchboard, an extra empty tab will get opened every time you open a link from an external application.

Download and install Opera Mobile 10 on your Nokia N800/N810/N900 using the phone’s default browser.

NOKIA N900 FIRMWARE 1.2 (PUBLIC RELEASE) LEAKED

A new version of the Nokia N900 firmware 1.2 (public release) have been leaked. I highly recommend you guys to wait with the update until you can download it from Nokia.

FIREFOX 1.1 BETA FOR NOKIA N900 GOES LIVE

Firefox 1.1 beta for Nokia N900 (Maemo) finally went live today. Firefox 1.1 beta is built on the same browser engine as Firefox 3.6 for desktop computers with extensive under the hood work to optimize for mobile. For the 1.1 release, the team listened to your feedback to help improve the browsing experience. As a result, polishing the user interface and improving UI responsiveness and performance is at the heart of this beta release. Secure, powerful and customizable, Firefox 1.1 beta for the Nokia N900 is packed with your favorite features and great improvements. Highlights include:

• Use volume rocker to zoom in and out on the Nokia N900
• Download, First Run and Start page redesign to help you find and use your favorite Firefox features
• Add-ons now auto update and view full add-on gallery from the Add-ons Manager
• Portrait mode support on the Nokia N900
• Form assistant improvements, including autocomplete
• Context Menu with Open in New Tab and Save Image
• Manage site preferences (clearing passwords and others)
• Site Menu improvements and additions including Save to PDF, Forget Password and Add Search Engine
• Web content theme update

Download Firefox 1.1 beta for the Nokia N900 by visiting Firefox.com/m/beta. You can also go to Firefox.com/mobile and send an SMS text message that contains the download link directly to your Nokia N900. If you don’t have an N900 you can download a build of Firefox for mobile to your desktop in order to test, provide feedback, and build add-ons. Desktop builds are for development purposes only and don’t have full functionality:

• Windows
• Mac OS X
• Linux

NOKIA N900 OVERLOCKED TO 1GHZ!!!!!

Today a member of the maemo community managed to overclock the Nokia N900 CPU to 1GHz with various hacks in the kernel, and this screenshot is the proof that its possible!  So whats the next step?

NOKAI N900 CAR PARKING APPLICATION

EasyPark for the Nokia N900 helps you when you park your car, and it will guide you back when you forgot where you parked it!.

N900 MAEMO OPERATING SYSTEM RUNNING ON THE HTC HD2

Can the Maemo OS (Nokia N900)  run on an HTC HD2 Windows Mobile Phone? Watch the video to find out.....

NOKIA N900 CONTROLLED ROBOT BY TWITTER

This is the first video of Niko completely controlled by the Nokia N900. Niko will turn, move, take a photo, upload the photo to TwitPic, and post a message to Twitter!

NOKIA N900 : WIFI - EYE

WifiEye is an application for the Nokia N900 that scans for available wireless networks and displays them in a nice way.
Currently it has 3 views:

• Channel view: Show channels overlaps
• Time graph: Show wireless strength over time
• List view: List-view of available wireless networks

How To Block Unwanted Callers On The N900

There is no call blocking application for the N900 yet, but that hasn’t stopped Vinu Thomas from coming up with a hack that lets you do just that. He clearly mentions that this is a stop gap arrangement until until steps up to create a real application with this functionality. What I’d like is an SMS blocking app as well, as SMS spam has really increased over the last one year or so.

Anyway, if you are being plagued by unwanted callers and have had enough, here’s how to get rid of them.

• The first thing you need is root access. So go ahead and download rootsh from the application manager or use this link.

• Next, if you haven’t installed a Python application in your phone, you’ll need to install maemo-python-device-env from extras-devel (here is how to enable extras-devel with one click).

• Now download this script. Inside the zip is a file callblock.py. Once you open it in notepad or whatever you like, it will look like the picture below.

• Now edit the ‘Blocklist’ in the script and put in the numbers you want to block. You can add as many number as you like, just make sure that you enclose the numbers within the quote and separate each with a comma. Also, do not have a trailing comma after the last number.

• Save and transfer this file (callblock.py) to the MyDocs folder on the N900.

• Open terminal on the device and enter the root mode by entering:

                                       root

• Next start the call block hack by entering:

                                   

python /home/user/MyDocs/callblock.py &

That’s it. All your unwanted calls are now blocked. You will need to run this script everytime you restart your device as there is no auto start functionality yet. Edit the block list in the callblock.py file anytime you want to change the blacklisted numbers. 

Download Page For Maemo 5 Applications Now Online

With the N900 release just around the corner, the Maemo.org download page for Maemo 5 applications has just gone online. As you can see from the repetitions in the names of the apps below, the catalogue is currently thin with the total number of applications listed being only 9.

However, with the final SDK becoming available and there being still time till the N900 ships, you can expect this number to swell to a respectable figure with the Maemo open source community also joining in. For now, Ogg Player and OM Weather have my attention, what applications are you most looking forward to?

PhotoTranslator: N900 App That Extracts & Translates Text From Images

I’ve just stumbled on an incredible application for the N900 that can translate text from images into various languages. So in a foreign country you can simply take a picture of a boarding/sign/menu, put a box around the text and the application will extract that text and translate it for you.
The knowledge about the existence of this app comes from a video uploaded by CybercomLab on YouTube, this does not look like a community project and my guess is that we should be seeing it on the Ovi Store soon. Here’s the application’s ‘official’ description from the YouTube page:

Imagine yourself walking on a street somewhere in a foreign country and you face a warning sign, but you have no idea what it says. Just take a picture of the sign and open it with PhotoTranslator, crop the text in the sign and PhotoTranslator translates the text to your language. In addition the PhotoTranslator can be used also for translating copy/pasted or typed text, not just for text from pictures.

NEW NOKIA N900 FIRMWARE VERSION PR 1.1.1 (version 3.2010.02-8). NOW AVAILABLE!

The Nokia N900 has received a new firmware in the form of PR 1.1.1 (version 3.2010.02-8). This looks like a minor update and is available as an image from N900 firmware section as well as over the air if you search for updates. The OTA option is a 16.2 MB download and looks like a precursor to the major PR 1.2 update.

This update adds a number of regions to the N900, as quite a number of countries were earlier missing from the N900’s list. Apart from that there is no changelog available. I will update this post if I see something new.

The changelog is now available here, this firmware fixes the battery drain issue when connected to WIFI and browser improvements among other minor things.

Update: If you get a memory error while trying to update the N900 over the air, trying rebooting the device once. If that still doesn’t solve your problem then disable the Extras-Devel and Extras-Testing repositories and try again.

Update 2: The update is also available via the Nokia Software Updater, however when you update using it, you will loose your applications and settings, while the contacts and other data including photos will remain intact. So please make sure you backup before you update.