Nokia N900 users with the linux-based Maemo 5 OS was hoping for an instant messaging App like WhatsApp to be available for their beloved open-source Platform for the N900 and the N9, but WhatsApp ignored their requests.

Today, Group of Maemo Developers at the Maemo forums posted an unofficial Alpha version of WhatsApp for N900, its still a work in progress using WhatsApp open API. If you want it on your Maemo device, Grap it from Download Link Below!

Here the change-log of the latest version so far:

• Limited group chats (NOT TESTED YET)

• Auto scroll down

• Bugfixes

Oracle JRE 1.6.0u30 required to be installed first

Is this the first Nokia Windows Phone handset naming confirmed? Apparently, there was this developer that was using Remote Device Access to mess with a Nokia N9 and when he entered Bluetooth connections he saw "Nokia 900 Windows Phone" in the list of nearby devices.

FYI, the video that you are about to see is not that hard to fake it. but its still a Questionable about Nokia Upcoming plans.

Video Below!

If you are liking what Firefox 4 for mobile already offers in its previous beta builds, then you will certainly want to check out its release candidate that went live on Monday just less than six months after the browser when beta. According to Mozilla, this new build provides a better overall user experience with faster scrolling and improved Firefox Sync, along with other goodies like Awesome Screen smart shortcuts, tabbed browsing, Firefox Add-ons, and Persona themes. Sounds a lot like its desktop sibling (which has a 4.9 million downloads already).

Check the Video Below! for a Quick Preview on the New Features of the 4.0 RC.

Download For Maemo N900

The Nokia N900 was a very impressive device runs on Maemo and MeeGo OS but you have to choose which one you want to stick with. the last update for the N900 was the PR 1.3 with many improvements.

Well, The N900 PR 1.4 Update is on its way to the users on Q2,2011 Not very Far! Some Rumors confirm that this Update may Have the Dual-boot for Both Maemo 5 and the MeeGo 1.2 which will be Released on early April,2011, and with that you can easily dual boot between Maemo and Meego on your N900. There is also a possibility of developing applications supporting both operating systems, based on Qt and Qt Mobility APIs on the Maemo side... Nokia previous statement regarding the Dual-boot topic :

"The Nokia N900 is used as development hardware for platform developers working with MeeGo on ARM hardware architecture. While the software from the MeeGo project runs on the Nokia N900 for development purposes, Nokia does not intend to provide a dual-boot OS option to consumers in upcoming N900 commercial software releases as we want to ensure that we provide the best possible experience designed for that device. The (meego.com) blog post was primarily targeted to the audience reading the blogMeeGo developers."

However, The PR 1.4 Update (with or without the Dual-boot) will have many improvements but this info is still not-confirmed yet:

•  Maemo security improvements
•  Faster navigation between desktops
•  Performance improvements makes your device run more smoothly
•  Browser performance improvements
•  Support for New ovi suite
•  A-GPS Update

source:  Meego.com, Meegoarena

Check it out! A video preview of the Android 2.3.1 Gingerbread running on the Nokia N900...

The Nokia N900 got rooted to the Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 with Fully Capabilities of Calling, Bluetooth and Wifi too. If you have a Nokia N900 you can turn it into a an Android Tablet Now with Some leaked ROMS for Gingerbread Devices, There is No info about this ROM version but Stay tunes for more Info about the Avaialbility of this ROM Soon!

Video Below!

NOW you can Add the Nokia N900 to the short list of devices running the latest iteration of the Android OS 2.3 Gingerbread. The last of the Maemo kind just got an unofficial ROM that, while not perfectly stable, proves that a relationship between those two is possible.

The Nokia N900 Gingerbread port comes courtesy of Alexey Roslyakov, a Russian coder, better known under the nickname DrunkDebbuger. He says a publicly available experimental release should come before the year end, which means in less than a week. Of course its not completely functional at this stage, but cellular data, Wi-Fi and sound are a go and naturally support for the rest of the hardware is being added as we speak.

If being an alpha tester is not much to your liking, you can try the stable Android 2.2.1 Froyo release for your N900. Roslyakov says it should be available for Christmas.

The final bit of good news is that there will be some kind of Android release for the Nokia N900 in time for the old calendar Christmas (7 January).

Mozilla released another beta version of their Firefox 4 browser for Android and Maemo devices has been released. It is still in beta but it is another step closer to the real thing. The next beta of the Firefox 4 for mobile devices carries along quite a large list of improvements.

The most interesting among them include the options to save pages as PDF files, the added support for uploading files, improved Firefox Sync interface and support for Android keyboards...

Download Latest Maemo Version

Of course, you can help the Firefox get even better by sharing your ideas with Mozilla or filing the bugs you have found.

Android users can find the new version of the Firefox web browser for mobile devices over at the Android Market, while the Maemo builds are only a tap away.

STEP-BY-STEP Installing

MeeGo1.1 on Nokia N900

Alright then, I tried. These steps work for Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 too, Lucid Lynx. N900 + MicroSD card required. Flasher-3.5 required. For Fedora, use the wiki but compile the flasher from GIT NOT the repo, and use my m-i-c command in the script below. and Make sure you have the SIM card on the phone and its Fully Charged 90% or higher!

Download MeeGo1.1 Files

1) Grab the N900 MeeGo kickstart file from HERE.

2) Move it to where you will be building all of this. If you copy/paste from my script below, that's going to be in ~/build

3) Add the Ubuntu MeeGo repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list. 

deb https://repo.meego.com/tools/repos/ubuntu/9.10/ /

4) Script. Copy/paste this to a terminal.

#Create work area
mkdir ~/build
cd ~/build
#Get python-elementtree
wget https://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/e/elementtree/python-elementtree_1.2.6-14_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i python-elementtree_1.2.6-14_all.deb
sudo apt-get update
#install syslinux and dependencies
sudo apt-get install syslinux=3.85
sudo apt-get install mtd-utils qemu-arm-static git-core kpartx
#build latest meego-image-creator, the one in the repositories don't work
git clone git://gitorious.org/meego-developer-tools/image-creator.git
cd image-creator
sudo tools/mic-check-alldeps
make clean
make
sudo make install
cd ..
#create N900 image
sudo mic-image-creator --run-mode=0 --cache=mycachedir --format=raw --arch=armv7l --save-kernel --config=meego-handset-armv7l-n900-nokia-closed-1.0.80.8.20100630.ks

5) Connect your booted N900 to your computer. Select "Mass Storage mode". In Ubuntu, determine which device it assigned your SD card. Mine did /dev/sdc.

6)Copy filesystem to N900 SD card. Replace "DEVICE" with your N900 External SD Card device (change XXXX's).

sudo dd bs=4096 if=meego-handset-armv7l-n900-nokia-closed-1.0.80.8.20100630-1.0.80.20100630.XXXX-raw/meego-handset-armv7l-n900-nokia-closed-1.0.80.8.20100630-1.0.80.20100630.XXXX-sda.raw of=DEVICE

7)Mount the SD card, replace /dev/sdc1 with your device and first partition.

mkdir mount
sudo mount /dev/sdc1 mount

8)Edit rc.local:

sudo vi mount/etc/rc.local

9)Add the following line, above the touch line

echo 255 > /sys/class/backlight/acx565akm/brightness

10)Unmount

sudo umount mount

11)Disconnect and shut off N900.

12)Run flasher (change XXXX's)

sudo flasher-3.5 -l -b -k meego-handset-armv7l-n900-nokia-closed-1.0.80.8.20100630-1.0.80.20100630.XXXX-vmlinuz-2.6.35~rc3-119.1-n900

13)When prompted for USB device, connect N900, turn on and hold "u"

Enjoy MeeGo1.1 till the MeeGo1.2 Released!

After MeeGo 1.0, which was unveiled back in June 2010, you can now welcome the MeeGo 1.1 for handsets. It is now available for download so you can give it a try straight away if you have a Nokia N900 and you are feeling adventurous enough to dual boot it along with Maemo. As we said on our Previous Leak Here ... MeeGo 1.1 is coming to N900 on October, And it Does!

As the video below reveals, the new MeeGo 1.1 brings U-Boot support to the Nokia N900, which means dual booting MeeGo and Meamo is finally possible as it was announced some time ago. This OS will Makes you Forget All about Maemo... brings Cool New features and Great Simple GUI on a very smooth platform. Any Question about installing Instructions please let us know in the Comments!

Video of N900 Running MeeGo 1.1 Below!

Update! Screenshots of MeeGo1.1

This Release includes:

• Core OS 1.1 – consolidated common base operating system for all UXs
• Netbook UX 1.1 - complete set of core applications for netbooks
• In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) UX 1.1 - includes a sample IVI home screen and taskbar built with Qt 4.7 and speech recognition
• Handset UX 1.1 - technology snapshot implements basic development UX for voice calling, SMS messaging, web browsing, music and video playback, photo viewing, and connection management
• SDK 1.1 Beta - SDK for MeeGo Core OS and supported UXs will be released during the coming days before the MeeGo Summit conference in Dublin.

"The 1.1 Core OS provides a complete set of enabling technologies for mobile computing. The MeeGo stack contains Linux Kernel 2.6.35, X.org server 1.9.0, Web Runtime, Qt 4.7, and Qt Mobility 1.0.2, supporting the contacts, location, messaging, multimedia, and sensor and service frameworks. It also includes a number of leading edge components, such as the oFono telephony stack, the ConnMan connection manager, the Tracker data indexer, the Telepathy real-time communications framework, the Buteo sync framework, and many more.

These technologies are brought to application developers through the MeeGo API, which is based on Qt and other technologies, such as the MeeGo Touch Framework. Furthermore, with the latest Qt version 4.7 the MeeGo developer experience is now enhanced with the introduction of QML, the easy to use scripting technology for animated touch-enabled GUI apps." Source: MeeGo.com

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