The folks at Nokia Research Center (NRC) just can’t help making things easier for us. While there has been a lot of speculation about Symbian Foundation going open source and Symbian^3 demoed, even our Maemo brothers have got new company with MeeGo, the researchers at NRC thought it was time to flaunt some hardware technologies to the world. So here it comes in the name of Nokia’s Explore and Share technology which at this stage is still a concept but I see it coming on the mainstream N900 soon.

So what really is this Explore and Share Technology? It’s a new wireless data transfer concept which promises blazingly fast transfer speeds. How fast? Imagine transferring an entire Bruce Springstein album in less than 10 seconds, that fast! Seems out of bounds? Check out the demo video after the break. Read the rest of this entry »

First came Windows 98 and then the Android and even Mac Os X paid a visit to our N900, but now it’s the turn of none other Ubunto Mobile the popular Linux distribution for mobile devices, to boot on the N900.

First attempted by YouTuber lifenexus, this is one of the most complete attempts at loading a foreign operating system on the N900. It’s fully functional and more importantly there is no lag, even when the OS is booted from the memory card. Now that must have gotten some Linux geeks excited out there, so this one goes for you guys. Catch the demo video after the break.

Demo Video-

Doesn’t that look cool? I just love the LXDE desktop and the fact that there is no lag means you can as well use Ubuntu as the main OS. What a pity, that there isn’t room for phone functions in this OS, which otherwise looks very promising as a mobile OS. So Linux hackers: can any of you get some phone functions on to the Ubuntu Mobile? Not that we are complaining about Maemo 5 but having options is always better and plus it pushes the competition to come up with better solutions.

Now we have already told you how BlueMaemo lets you use your N900 as a PS3 controller, but what if you want to do the other way around? That is use a PS3 Sixaxis controller as an input device for emulated games on N900: its possible now. But it’s no simple app that can let you do that but it involves a bit of fiddling around with the kernel and installing a SixA daemon. So unless you want to get your hands dirty, this hack is not for you.

But you don’t have to lose heart. What if you are not brave enough to poke your finger at the core of the OS-kernel, you can always admire the work done by others. So let’s first do that, by taking a look at this demo video released by Tomasz Sterna aka Aberration, who takes the credit of being the first person to connect the PS3 Sixaxis controller to N900. Read the rest of this entry »

The N900 Hackathon continues! After Android and Windows 98, it’s now the Mac OS X 10.3 aka Panther, which has made an appearance on N900. Thanks to Finnish hacker Toni Nikkanen, who takes the distinction of successfully porting OS X on to a mobile device.

While there are plenty of Mac fans out there who would just love to have this OS on their mobile phones, the present port is of little to no practical use for an average user. But, that’s not gonna stop enterprising geeks from trying this hack, now does it? Before, you take the dive into the hack, do take a look at the demo video. Read the rest of this entry »

Now, if Android on N900 was cool, I am running out of adjectives to describe what it would be like to have Windows 98 on N900s. I know its overly outdated but I bet there a few geeks like me who would still swear by Windows 98 for its speed and sheer simplicity. Afterall it was designed to run on 500 MHz processors which were the mainstream desktop processor at that time. No wonder, it works great on N900 which boasts of a 633 MHz processor of its own!

The Windows 98 port is courtesy Maemoworld.ru, the Russian maemo community, which has been pretty active online community. Since I have no experience with the Russian script, I had to turn to Google translate to help me decipher the forum post, which unfortunately doesn’t make much sense to me. However, I was able to figure out the steps involved in getting win98 onboard N900:

1. Set dosbox from repositories
2. Download the image section with vindom
3. Create a folder / home / user / MyDocs / dosbox and extract there W98Lite.img
4. Edit config dosboksa / home/user/.dosbox/dosbox-0.73.conf as follows:
somewhere at the top looking fullscreen option and make it true
? at the end of the file in section [autoexec] appends the string:
imgmount c /home/user/MyDocs/dosbox/w98lite.img -t hdd -fs fat imgmount c / home/user/MyDocs/dosbox/w98lite.img-t hdd-fs fat
boot -lc boot-lc
5. Run dosboks and wait for the download

For further details, please refer to the original forum post Google Translated English version or the original Russian version.

As if we were not having enough of Linux in Maemo 5 flavour, bdogg64 has managed to taste the android flavour on his N900. No kidding, he has some video evidence apart from the screenshot I captured from the video, that you see to your left.

So basically what bdogg64 has done is, he/she has added multi-boot capability to the multi-tasking GOD of smartphones-N900. It’s not fully function yet and hence out-of-bounds for laymen N900 users but Linux geeks, would probably get it working on their N900s with little to no help from bdogg64. While the Linux hackers and nerds get their act together, laymen users like me and you can only ogle at their work. Let’s take a look at what bdogg64 did, after the break though. Read the rest of this entry »