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Maemo Summit 2009 - Amsterdam!
I am fortunate enough to be able to attend Maemo Summit 2009 as a sponsored attendee. I am an ordinary community member, like a lot of you out there. As such, I am hoping to share as much as I can with...
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Maemo Summit 2009-Thank You!
I would like to publicly thank the Maemo Community Council and the Maemo Devices team for all their hard work in organizing the Summit at Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. The event was a great success....
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Maemo Summit News: N8X0 OMAP2 Graphics Drivers
Although the primary focus of the Summit was Maemo 5 and the N900, there was some very welcome and long-awaited news for legacy OMAP2 devices. Texas Instruments announced at the Summit on Friday that...
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A Maemo Minute
A friend was over on Sunday. His iPhone rang, and he took a call. After the call, I showed him the loaner N900 that I have. After playing with the media player, multi-tasking, desktop, and liking the...
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N900 + Windmobile.ca - So close, yet So far...
On a hunch, I decided to scan available GSM operators from my N900 this morning in Toronto. Wouldn't you know it, 'CAN 490' was displayed showing a nice little '3G' symbol beside it !But alas, when...
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Merry N8X0 Drivers to All !
Carsten Munk, our maemo.org distmaster sent me an IM this morning. It looks like he and his Mer team have received the fabled OMAP2 graphics drivers from Texas Instruments. They have had some success...
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Maemo Minute #2: N900 & Bluetooth DUN
Philip Langdale's bluetooth dial-up networking daemon (BT-DUN) for the Nokia N900 is a real godsend. Now I can tether my N800 and my laptop to my N900. OK... What does that mean for an average N900...
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Maemo Minute #3: There's a '.deb' for that...
The Nokia N900 has everything going for it. Killer hardware that makes mouths drop, a great OS enabling you to be as connected as possible while out and about, all in a package that fits in your...
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N900 Video Featuring maemo.org Community Members
In case you have not seen it, there is a new Nokia N900 video, starring some of the maemo.org community members. http://www.n900-mobile.co.uk/To see the video, go to the above link and click on...
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Nokia Spotlight: Interview with Peter Schneider - Part 1
Mobile Tablets! is pleased to present this interview with Peter Schneider, head of the global marketing team for Maemo Devices at Nokia. For those who have not seen Peter in person - suffice it to say...
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Nokia Spotlight - Interview with Peter Schneider - Part 2
July 2009 saw a glorious moment for Maemo unfold - one that was met with great enthusiasm by the community - the creation of the 'Maemo Devices' organization within Nokia. Melding both software and...
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Maemo Community Council: Candidates Getting Grilled
The Maemo Community Council election is drawing near, and the nomination process is closed. As you have probably heard by now, the candidate list is quite strong, comprising former and current Council...
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Maemo Minute #4: NuevaSync - Set it and Forget it
The N900's MfE client can sync with a number of MfE servers, but is not Google-friendly, since Google's implementation of Mail for Exchange (MfE) is not standard. I for one would like to use Google...
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Maemo Meetup in Toronto
Last night, I attended the Mobile Geeks of Toronto (MGoTO) meetup. The featured guest was Samir Agarwal, head of Nokia's Maemo Operations in Mountain View, CA.There were about 15 attendees, ranging...
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Two years of Maemo Blogging!
I was thinking that the 2nd 'anniversary' of my blog, Mobile Tablets! had to be around the corner. It turns out that it is today, June 4th!My first post was a short intro on what I had envisioned for...
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What is old is new again (Tablet Companions)
Nokia let the tablet segment slip out of their portfolio. After 3 generations of Internet Tablets, the form factor that started Maemo is now a distant memory. Maemo is alive and kicking, for now, in...
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Maemo Minute #5: Real Face-to-Facetime
I saw a Bell Canada iPhone 4 commercial on TV today. It was focused on the FaceTime application. At the end of the commercial, in small print, was the limitation that it works on Wi-Fi only. Well,...
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Maemo Community Council Election (Q3-2010): Candidates Q&A
As part of the lead-up to the Q3-2010 Maemo Community Council election, I am holding a Q&A with the 10 candidates. There is a wide range of candidates again this time, making the vote difficult,...
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Thoughts on MeeGo Conference 2010
Since the Meego Conference in Dublin, many members of the community have already presented their thoughts on the venue, presentations, social events, etc. Those summaries echo what I felt while there....
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Wanted: Task-Based Profiles
On the recent trip to Dublin for the MeeGo Conference, I noticed that I had to spend time to reorganize the desktops and other settings of the N900 to be friendly for carrier roaming. In my carrier's...
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