Maemo-guru has done a good job recording what seems to be a press sit-down interview session with Dr. Ari Jaaksi, Nokia VP for Maemo Devices during the recent Nokia World 2009 at Stuttgart, Germany.
The video is about 30 minutes full of great info. A must watch.
Thanks Ricky!
Popular Swedish magazine site Mobil has a nice walkthrough of most features of the Nokia N900. This is the first video I’ve seen the bundled game Bounce in action, at about the 4:00 mark.
TechRadar UK takes a sneak peek of Fennec, Mozilla’s upcoming mobile browser.
For those who have seen and tried Fennec on the older Nokia Internet Tablets, the N900 version looks a bit revamped, sporting the new look of Maemo 5, with geo-location and add-ons now activated. Cool!
US folks can now pre-order the Nokia N900 at Nokia USA. It’s a bit tricky to find the N900 at the site so it might be easier if you follow this link. Edit: Official link.
The unlocked Nokia N900 retails for $649 + tax, with a free BH-703 Nokia Bluetooth headset, and shipping early October. Note however that while the N900 will work on both T-Mobile and AT&T for voice calls, 3G data speed will only work on T-mobile. The slower EDGE data speed might work with AT&T though.
There is no word yet if T-mobile will officially carry the Nokia N900. If they do, you might want to wait a while as they will surely offer it at a lower, subsidized price.
Pixelpipe is a perfect app for the Nokia N900! From the N900 demo and walkthough videos I’ve seen, the built in gallery app currently can upload to only about three online services. Pixelpipe will definitely solve this problem.
I use Pixelpipe on the iPhone a lot to post pics and vids to numerous online sites such as Blip.tv, Facebook, Flickr, Photobucket, Tinypic, YouTube, and Zenfolio. You select pics and vids from the gallery, and with a click, they get simultaneously uploaded to the multiple online service you select.
Here’s Mark’s (The Nokia Blog) interview with the CEO and founder of Pixelpipe, with a great demo:
Now, if the NAM (Noth American) version of the N900 will only support AT&T 3G…
You must all have seen the italian video walkthrough of the Nokia N900 earlier this week (if not, I’ve included it at the end of this post). Kiamanokia has posted more videos detailing widgets, Nokia Maps, calling features, and multimedia.
Check out the new videos:
Desktop Widgets
Nokia Maps
Calling
Multimedia
Original Review
Speaking of BFI, someone just tweeted about a free workshop happening on September 12 at BFI Southbank. It looks like it’s also being organized by ondeotzero.
Here are the details of the workshop:
Title: Nokia: the art of open source – An introductory workshop showcasing the development potential of the Maemo platform.
Description:
An introductory workshop showcasing the development potential of the Maemo platform. Maemo developers will explain how you can get involved with this dynamic developer community, the many different applications this open source platform can facilitate and the new Nokia technologies that are expanding the possibilities of open source collaboration between designers, developers and users.
Anyone know who is conducting this? lcuk maybe?
The onedotzero_adventures in motion festival will be featuring the first Nokia N900 creative app which will be projected over 50m on the facade of BFI Southbank from September 9-13, 2009.
From the looks of it, the N900-powered app will display the festival’s identity (or any message), created from real-time aggregated posts from Facebook, Twitter, etc. It uses the N900’s accelerometer, to rotate and tilt the display, the touch screen to pan, and the +/- buttons to zoom. The app was developed by Gary Birkett (lcuk for those who frequent talk.maemo.org).
Can anyone take a vid on how it will look?
Check out the video preview of the app:
Nokia World 2009 is about to wrap-up. There is no doubt that the Nokia N900 was a big star of the show.
I’ve been focused the past two days on reading and looking for N900 pics, videos, and first look articles. Mind you, there are a lot(!) and most, if not all of them have just positive things to say about the first Maemo 5 device. Here are the best ones. I promise to update the list as I see more videos and articles.
Let me know if you find good ones as well.
One feature of the Nokia N900 which a lot have failed to mention is it’s built-in accelerometer. Karoliina Salminen writes on her blog about the N900’s gaming potential with it’s built-in graphics accelerator and support for OpenGL ES 2.0. Plug the N900 to your TV, use it as a controller via it’s accelerometer, and you have yourself a portable, networked gaming console.
Check out Andrew playing Bounce above.
*image above courtesy of Andrew Flegg