If you have been all excited about the Google Buzz announcement and release yesterday, I have another reason to cheer for you guys. The android version of Google Buzz (which packs in more features) has now been hacked on to our mighty N900s. Thanks to Abhista for finding a way around it and that in less than a day since the service saw the ray of light! We are definitely impressed both by Abhista and our N900’s capabilities.
So what exactly is this hack all about? Well, to put it plain words, you are fooling the Google servers into believing the N900 browser to be the android browser. Simple and yet effective. Details and demo video after the break.
Demo video-
Now if you prefer to read through a set of instructions, I won’t disappoint you either:
- Install Hide User Agent from Application Manager
- Go to Control Panel and open Hide User Agent
- Set user agent to
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1; en-us; dream) AppleWebKit/525.10+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Mobile Safari/523.12.2 - Click on the Set
- Then the browser will be restarted
- Now go to the browser, open http://buzz.google.com
Ain’t that simple? Infact it’s one of the easiest hacks that I have seen on the N900 and yet it’s so effective. Now you must be asking, “Yeah, that’s great but why the heck do we need the android version when the N900 browser has the capabilities of a desktop browser?” Well saving on data usage is one advantage and the other being the android version is optimized for mobile usage and comes in with several additional features (Check out the comparison at Google Blog post here and you would know what we are talking about).
So what are you waiting for? Get buzzing on your N900s and do let me know what you think of the above hack.
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