If you are one of those N900ers who are praying day in and day out for portrait mode on your N900, I have some good news for you. Contrary to earlier attempts, you don’t need a bug to enable the portrait mode on your N900, but just a soft touch of a short-cut key(s) to enable portrait mode on your N900 browser. Yeah you read it right, it’s built-in and just wasn’t known to the N900 community as such. Thanks to MaemoCommunity for digging this out of nowhere, but seriously Nokia: Why did you leave such an important function out of the official changelog of PR 1.1? Yeah, the new firmware unlocked this feature on the N900 browser.

Needless to say, the advantages of portrait mode for one-handed operation are innumerable. Now only if all the applications were to function in portrait mode, would the N900 community breathe a sigh of relief but having got the best feature of N900 working in the portrait mode is a big consolation for ardent N900 fans. So guys before I spill the beans on short-cut key(s) that enable portrait mode on microB on N900, take a look at this demo video below, after the break though. Read the rest of this entry »

If you have been following the web technologies, chances are you would have heard about HTML 5 and WebGL, which are like the next generation technologies on the web and guess what you can get a feel of these, very much on your N900s, thanks to Mozilla’s Firefox Mobile, also known as the Fennec browser which is still in beta for Maemo 5.

So now you have one more reason to turn to Firefox for your browsing needs on the N900. But what exactly do these fancy terms- HTML5, SVG and WebGL mean? Well, if you are not a developer, you probably won’t have to bother about these but as a user, you should know whats happening behind the web-page that you are reading. HTML 5 is the next version of HTML, th core mark-up language of the internet, which aims at getting rid of proprietory plugin based internet applications like Adobe’s Flash and Microsoft’s Silverlight, meaning you dont have to bother installing these plugins on your desktops and more encouraging is the impact on mobile browser, a majority of which don’t support Flash as of now. SVG is a family of specifications of XML based files, used for describing 2D vector graphics, yeah I know it sounds all gibberish for most. But before you overlook, take a look at these demo videos from Firefox, after the break though. Read the rest of this entry »

A lot has been talked about the browser capabilities of the Maemo browser on N900 and that of its closest rival, Safari on the iPhone. Being an iPhone user myself, I gotta say that it accounts for one of the smoothest mobile browsing experiences, but the N900 browser’s capability to render the pages in desktop like resolution takes the competition to the next level, all by itself.

To zero in on a winner, I put them through several tests and threw in HTC Hero, which according to me is the best Android phone in market (as of now) and HTC G1, the legendary Google phone which gave the world the first feel of Android. Eager to know who is the winner? Hit on the read button to find out. Read the rest of this entry »

The Nokia N900 will take your web browsing to a whole new faster level. Harness the high-speed broadband of the N900, which is compared to your home Internet connection’s fast speed. Now you can truly enjoy visiting Internet website with rich interactive content. Its built-in browser is now powered by Mozilla technology – the creator of the widely successful and web standard browser Firefox. Also, be able to experience mobile Internet media with Adobe Flash™ 9.4 support now inside the phone. Others have failed bringing this feature in their phone. But that is not the case for the N900.

With a full screen browsing feature, you can view your favorite websites. Hand gestures and tapping commands will enable you to zoom in or out or scroll in any direction on your website. The graphics and animations will be displayed as it is like on your desktop computer.

The Nokia N900 phone is capable of 3.5G and WLAN connectivity, support Quadband GSM with GPRS and EDGE technology, ultra fast data transfers over a cellular network 10/2Mbps and data transfers over Wi-Fi 54Mbps. Whether you are connected via WIFI or accessing the 3.5G network, you do not have an excuse not to be online.

What does this mean for the mobile Internet aficionado? Well, it means that you can now truly take the Internet wherever you go. No need to carry your big clunky laptop. No more worrying about plug-ins. No more wondering how come your flash website doesn’t work. The Maemo Internet browser courtesy of Mozilla technology has empowered us to really enjoy web 2.0 and not be taken back to the 1990’s.

Imagine playing your favorite Facebook games. How about watching YouTube without having to wait forever? Web as we know it is now in our grasps thanks to the N900 from Nokia.