The long wait is almost over, dear Nokia N900 owners. The Finnish company's developers are almost done porting MeeGo to the sweet QWERTY slider and promise to release it to the general public in a few days. The update will be available on the MeeGo site, which should enable dual-booting of Maemo and MeeGo on the Nokia N900 so you can get a taste of the upcoming MeeGo mobile OS. There is ... Read More

Nokia N900 has got a new software update in UK. The update is version 1.2 (V10.2010.19-1), comes with several improvements including email client, new Facebook IM chat and support video calling. There are also changes in the system menu and Ovi Map with the new finger friendly user interface. With UK being the first country to get the update, Nokia is releasing the software update globally tomorrow (Wednesday).Nokia N900 has ... Read More

Nokia on May 10, introduced the N900 Maemo 5-based smartphone which features a 3.5-inch resistive touch screen, 5-megapixel Carl Zeiss camera and QWERTY keypad for the Taiwan market. The N900 is priced at NT$22,100 (US$697). According to Nokia “N900 is the latest answer for the premium market, which has been dominated by Apple, RIM and HTC in Taiwan”. Nokia also promised that it will unveil high-end devices based on Symbian 3 ... Read More

Quick and dirty bit of news for you lovely subjects of the United Kingdom and independent spirits of Ireland: Vodafone's online store is showing the much hailed N900 as an option, with handsets expected at some point next month. The Irish arm of the carrier had already admitted it'll be offering the device, and we foresee the two launching the handset simultaneously early in the new year, with regrettably little ... Read More

Reuters reports that Nokia plans to launch only one Maemo-powered smartphone in 2010, according to a source with direct knowledge of Nokia's 2010 product roadmap. Though a Nokia spokesman would not comment on plans for future products, he did say that the company remains committed to its Symbian operating system. Nokia's stance has not changed since August when it negated reports that said that the company would begin focusing on Maemo ... Read More

Love to tinker and tweak your smartphone? Find running beta apps a challenge, not a burden? Then you'll be happy to hear that Nokia's N900 running Maemo 5 is now shipping in the US, a week later than the press release suggested. This Cortex-A8 phone with 32GB of on-board storage is ripe with potential and the perfect holiday gift for grandma as long as she's comfortable dropping into the X ... Read More

Following the official announcement that Nokia N900 starts shipping in Europe last week, Nokia today went ahead and confirmed Nokia N900 availability in the USA starting from today. The N900 is not getting a subsidized deal with some of the major carriers but it will instead be sold independently SIM-free. As our specs testify, the Nokia N900 comes with full quad-band GSM support and 1700/2100/900 UMTS/HSDPA support no matter what region ... Read More

Sygic just announced that their GPS application (which works on iPhones and other devices) now also works on Nokia Maemo phones. The GPS application will be ready for sale from Sygic website before next year. Sygic offers turn-by-turn voice guided directons on Nokia Maemo 5 OS devices in the following countries: Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brazil, Colombia, USA, Canada, Mexico, USA, all of Europe, Russia, Bahrain, Kuwait, ... Read More

Nokia's Maemo-based future has begun: the N900 is shipping. According to Nokia CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, the eagerly awaited handset is now en route to at least some pre-order customers. We'll soon see if this new generation of Nokia smartphones will be enough to generate the type of mass-market / high-margin appeal that Nokia needs at the top end of its product portfolio or if it's just a tentative first step ... Read More

The market release of Nokia´s latest internet tablet was delayed for a while, but we now have information that reveals the device is coming to the US and Europe quite soon really. The online store NewEgg indicates the Nokia N900 will be available in the US on November 14. We are definitely impressed with the performance of the prototype of the much-anticipated device, so we just cannot wait to get our ... Read More