The Nokia N9. Some consider it Nokia's final true flagship smartphone; the ultimate expression of Nokia's in-house hardware and software expertise. Announced in Singapore in June 2011, 4 months after Stephen Elop's infamous "burning platform" memo and strategy announcement, the N9 impressed virtually everyone who managed to have one in their hands; MeeGo Harmattan had been in the works for an extremely long ...

The MeeGo flagship might have gotten a firmware update today, but the good ol' Maemo-powered Nokia N900 got some unofficial Android Love thanks to U-Boot. The OS images havent been released yet, as there are still tweaks to be made, but dayum it looks impressive, eh? A stock Android experience. I might do this to my N900 just to see how well it works heh. ...

The much loved Nokia N900 Maemo smartphone has always been capable of great things. But this one is extra awesome. Sascha from RoboSavvy managed to hack the phone's three-axis controller and other components to bring it's attached Robot body, to life. There's remote access, video streaming and all things mech that's really better explained at the source link below. Let's just hope it doesnt become self-awar ...

A report from VisionMobile has ranked Google’s Android operating system as the most “closed” open source platform among eight other major open source projects. The Open Governance Index is a deep look at the openness of Android, Qt, Symbian, MeeGo, Mozilla, WebKit, Linux and Eclipse. The winner? Qt is the most open open source platform with an Open Governance Index of 58% while Google’s Android was the most ...

Ah the good ol' Nokia N900. Is there anything that phone couldnt do? While we havent heard much from the Maemo scene lately, the Nokia phone-tablet has gotten a pretty awesome little homebrew mod. Polish hacker Emeryth, has a custom gamepad on the QWERTY slider, to help video game emulation be more comfortable on your thumbs. The ATmega8A microcontroller based exposed overlay plugs directly into the device' ...

After a few months of beta phase, the 4squick app has finally reached v1 milestone and has been released via Nokia Store. ...

fMobi for Nokia received a major update yesterday to v1.4 which can be downloaded from Ovi Store. ...

Former Nokian, once MeeGo Chief and current head of the ceased-development-webOS, Ari Jaaksi had an interview with Finish newspaper hs.fi today and reveals some things on Nokia that was bothering him for a while. For one thing, he left Nokia because he thought it was impossible to do his job as MeeGo chief, because 'Symbian was like a religion inside Nokia'. Instead of using the better OS, i.e Maemo and lat ...

Nokia Beta Labs has graduated the Ovi Suite 3.1.1 beta which means you'll be seeing it pop up as an update on older versions of the app (from v3.1.0.91 and older) for Ovi Suite version 3.1.1.75. If you arnt too keep on waiting, you can download it right from www.nokia.com/ovisuite. The changelog remains the same as the last Beta Release. [via NokiaBetaLabs] ...

According to an interview with Stephen Elop and Finnish newspaper Helsingen Sanomat, Nokia tried to tout MeeGo to rival manufacturers back when it was considered it's next main Smartphone OS. Unfortunately though other manufacturers were afraid that Nokia had too much power in MeeGo, and were hence hesitant. According to Nokia CEO Stephen Elop: "We discussed Meego with HTC, RIM, Samsung, LG, and Motorola. O ...

Apparently the ol' Nokia N900 will be getting an unofficial/official update to MeeGo 1.2 Developer Edition some time in June. While this one's not really for end users, the OS will be fully functional enough, with Voice Calls, Camera, and Fennec Browsing currently working. The team consists of 20-ish Nokia Paid Developers and 10-ish Volunteers, so hopefully things should be stable/finished enough by then. [ ...

Here's a quick video showing Angry Birds Rio running on the Nokia N900. Before you get too excited, this is the WebOS version of the game, running in a Maemo Pre-Emulator (preenv). [via MeegoExperts] ...

Jay over at MyNokiaBlog has managed to find out that the Nokia N900 will be getting some MeeGo support, through an Official 'Developer Edition' port of the OS. From the Wiki, and an email from Jukka Euland, Product Manager for the Developer Edition : Target is to make a Developer Edition of MeeGo for the Nokia N900 device. Flashed with this edition N900 will be usable as a primary phone device for a develop ...

Personally we're still big fans of the stock browsers on both platforms, but incase you arnt, Firefox 4 Beta 5 was just released for Maemo and Android devices. Quite a lot of improvements this time around, like: Increased responsiveness to panning and zooming Increased JavaScript performance Faster start up and page load times Major stability improvements Available to download from the Android Market, and t ...

It's with great sadness that I publish this post today. According to an open letter published at Nokia Conversations today, Stephen Elop says "Nokia will adopt Windows Phone as its primary smartphone strategy”. Exact details of the deal are still being ironed out but there was no mention of MeeGo or Symbian in the post. Here's a quick video announcement of the partnership. The full letter can be found here, ...