Articles By: Sami

Maemo Summit – Day Three Highlights

Day Three and the whole Maemo Summit is now in the past. Great presentations, Oprah moments, community bonding and good times were on the menu. Coming year before the next Maemo Summit will be by far the most exciting and interesting for Maemo community and mobile computer landscape in general. While...

October 11th, 2009 | News | Read More

Maemo Summit – Day Two Highlights

The second day of the Maemo Summit concentrates on community, development frameworks and applications. Presentations have lots of interesting details and hopefully the videos and slides will be available soon online for those interested in the deep content of Maemo development. Here’s the highlights...

October 10th, 2009 | News | Read More

Maemo Summit – Day One Highlights

Maemo Summit – gathering of Nokia’s Maemo team and the Maemo community started today. Day One was the “Nokia day”, agenda filled mostly by Nokia employees giving presentations in various keynotes and panels. Highlight 1: Nokia loans N900 device for 6 months use to all summit...

October 9th, 2009 | News | Read More

Maemo Developer Interview – Maemo Mapper

MaemoNews is continuing our series of Maemo developer interviews, this time in the exciting area of mobile mapping software. Our community developer for the interview is John Costigan, the developer of the great Maemo Mapper software. Currently Maemo Mapper is the third most downloaded software in the...

October 8th, 2009 | Community, News | Read More

Maemo Developer Interview – OM Weather

Maemo and open-source community in general is built on the strengths of it’s developers. Community thrives or dies based on the altruist sharing among it’s members. For Maemo devices, Nokia has understood this fully and embraces the community by being much more open and transparent in Maemo...

October 2nd, 2009 | Community, News | Read More

Prices for Nokia N900

Nokia N900 is the latest must-have device from Nokia, fueling the never-ending discussion and anticipation about how operators will be subsidizing it. N900 is a truly high-end device, with hefty price tag when purchased directly with full price from electronics sellers. Sticker shock naturally leads...

September 21st, 2009 | News | Read More

Maemo and N900 video collection

Eyes tired of reading blog entries about Maemo and Nokia N900? Twitter feed going past way too quickly to check all the cool information out there? No problem: sit back, relax and watch these videos for latest on the Maemo OS, Nokia N900 and the community. First, we have an interesting and looong Q&A...

September 17th, 2009 | News | Read More

N900 Competition – LG GW620

In the series of potential Nokia N900 competition, next candidate is the LG GW620 which was launched yesteday. It’s LG’s first Android phone and follows the unfortunate path of not-so-interesting Android releases coming from many companies lately (like the Motorola Cliq). Hardware specifications...

September 15th, 2009 | Hardware | Read More

Maemo Summit “Sold Out”

This year’s Maemo Summit is proving to be more popular than ever. Call for participation has now ended, since the number of participants has exceeded the capabilities of the venue. There is a waiting list as the Maemo folks are looking for potential solutions to extend the participation capability. WesterGasFabriek Also...

September 15th, 2009 | Community, News | Read More

N900 Competition – Motorola Cliq

Motorola introduced their first Android-based device, Motorola Cliq today. Company has been on downward spiral for long time in the mobile market, last really successful product being the Razr from years past. Now Motorola is attempting to renew some interest from the buying public by imitating the likes...

September 10th, 2009 | Hardware, News | Read More