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 CPU OVERLOCKED TO 1700 MHZ

The Nokia N900 overclocking war continues. The guys at Maemo community successfully overclocked the Nokia N900 CPU to 1700MHz (from 600MHz). Im not sure if the pic is real or not, so you have to decide if you believe in it or not  

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?

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.....

Maemo Select: Applications, Themes & Wallpapers For The N900

Yesterday we told you about Maemo.org’s Maemo 5 application page going live and today brings even more good news. Maemo Select, a section on Nokia’s Maemo site that highlights the best applications, themes and wallpapers for Maemo 5  has gone live today with a few more apps.

Maemo Select will cover applications from the Maemo Community as well as the Ovi Store. Yes, the Ovi Store. The Ovi Store is coming to the N900 by the end of the year and will feature both free and paid applications. Currently the theme and wallpaper section on Maemo Select is empty but you can expect it to fill up pretty soon. On the app front, downloads are already available for the Amazon Widget, Evernote, Bounce Evolution, Documents to Go and for the Facebook widget amongst others. Fring and Mauku (the Maemo micro-blogging client) will also soon be available for download.

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?

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.