Bored of the default N900 themes? If you are then I have some good news for you. MMMOOO, developers of some of the best selling apps in the symbian platform have marked their entry to Maemo 5 bandwagon with the very first paid theme for N900 with AZ. AZ stands for A to Z and symbolises the complete package the theme is.

The theme not only has eye-candy wallpaper but also a nice contrast between background images and highlighted fonts.The menu buttons blend in harmoniously with the overall colour scheme adding on to your addiction for N900. Well, I can go on-and-on praising the latest theme, bu I will leave the screenshots to do the talking themselves. Read the rest of this entry »

Are you still looking for a simple way to tweet from your N900? Yeah I know there is Mauku and there is always the Twitter website but didn’t I already talk about the limitations of these apps/services earlier? Hahlo, is one great web app for tweeting from N900 and if you happen to dislike Hahlo just for aesthetics or whatever the reason be, you now have a ray of hope. Enter Twitter plugin for Conversations and Contacts which can let N900ers tweet directly from the VoIP/IM window of the Maemo 5 OS. Looks super cool right? Catch the brief review and some candid screenshots, after the break. Read the rest of this entry »

Its Christmas time and if you happen to be looking for some Christmas goodies for your N900, let me tell you that you have landed at the right place. I have been looking for some christmas themed apps/wallpapers etc for my N900 but till now the search was rather futile with not much quality content to be found on the web. But guess what? What’s the Maemo community for? I found this amazing collection of Christmas themed wallpapers from a website which has been designed and hosted just to compile high quality N900 wallpapers.

All set in native 800×480 px resolution, the wallpapers have been designed just for N900 and is by all standards the best collection of N900 wallpers I have seen so far on the web. The wallpaper on the left is just an indication of what the website has in store for you and before you head straight to check that amazing compilation, let me run you through a few of my personal favorites from the collection, after the break though. Read the rest of this entry »

After searching in vain for more than a year for that powerful mobile blogging tool, I finally landed on one in the default repository for the N900/Maemo5. Looks finally a developer has understood the needs of a true mobile blogger with Mastory, the most versatile blogging tool I have ever seen on a mobile platform.

Before you start dreaming about blogging from this amazing blogging tool on your N900s, let me tell you that at present the app supports Wordpress, Blogger, Live Journal and Drupal. So, if  you happen to be on one of these publishers, then go ahead and hit the jump button for more tidbits on this versatile mobile blogging tool. Read the rest of this entry »

Being a Twitter addict, a powerful twitter client is a must have for me, be it on my desktop/notebook or my smartphone. Being an iPhone user, I am more than amazed by the capabilities of Twitter apps like Tweetdeck and Twitterific and was expecting some app with similar capabilities on the N900.

Earlier, I talked about Hahlo4, a web based app which offers a ton of features directly from the browser, any browser, including the one you are reading this post from. However, back then I didn’t have a N900 at my disposal and it was no first hand experience. Now am armed with an N900 and wasting no time, I pitch Hahlo and Mauku, a micro-blogging app available in the default Maemo repository for a Twitter showdown. Let’s see who takes the crown of the best twitter app on N900, after the break though. Read the rest of this entry »

If you have been trying to access that Ovi store from your N900, you know thats it’t not live yet. But guess what, folks at talk.maemo have found their way around it and caught Nokia offguard who it is now known were testing the store among their inner circles.

Even you want some hands-on feel of the Ovi store? Head to store.ovi.mobi from your N900 browser and you can very much see for yourself, what am about to show you guys here. As long as you don’t try to download anything, the ovi store experience will be no different from that on any symbian phone. Here comes the tricky thing, download option is not yet available off the store, but there is a way around it, which though not advisable for Linux newbies, the junkies will adore. Find your way here, while I give you a screen-shot tour as I walk through the ovi store on N900. Read the rest of this entry »

You must be wondering how on earth can N900ers can save the world, for we are no Nathan Petrellis and in case you were wondering there is no cute cheer-leader to save either! Enough of fooling around now, lets get to business for the N900 app am reviewing today addresses a very serious concern- Carbon Emissions.

You probably would have heard and or read about Global Warming and its scary after-effects, Climate Change being the most prominent one. Unless you spend the last couple of years hiding under a rock, you would have also heard of ex US Vice-President Al-Gore’s documentary on this burning topic- “An Inconvenient Truth”.  That should give you a crash-course on global warming and carbon emissions and the like. Well, now you must be asking me, “Whats this gotta do with my N900?” Well, let me tell you as a N900er you can do your bit to offset your CO2 emissions. Lets start by hitting on that read button for now. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the most important things you expect your smartphone to be capable of doing is to function as an efficient email client for you. While BlackBerry’s Push E-mail is the market leader in providing email-on-the-go services, competing smartphones are not lagging far behind with their email clients either. The only faux being the absence of a true push email services from any of the competitors. While Nokia does have its Nokia Messaging service, its not as widely available as the BlackBerry’s.

Coming to N900, I was delighted to see how easy it was to configure an email account on Maemo 5’s default email client. Very much like the email setup on iPhone, you don’t have to bother about SMTP/POP server names if you are syncing one of the popular email services like that of Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail, Ovi mail etc. Infact its so simple, I wish my outlook functioned in a similar fashion. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the screenshots that I took as I configured the ovi mail account, after the break though. Read the rest of this entry »

If navigation is one of your top priorities, you must be wondering if the N900 would do you any good in finding you way around the town. Guess what, you are in luck, for Ovi Maps onboard the N900 is one of the best navigation apps that you can see on any mobile platform today.

For users of symbian phones, Ovi Maps needs no introduction for Ovi Maps has been the default navigaiton app on symbian smartphone for over a year now (It was called Nokia maps initially and then rechristened to Ovi Maps). It was one of the first navigation apps to come up with the concept of downloadable  maps on phones, drastically reducing the data consumption on compatible phones. The navigation app has been a great success on the symbian platform, and now debuts on the Maemo platform with the N900. Let’s now see how it pans out for my routine navigation needs. Read the rest of this entry »

The Nokia N900 is dubbed as “RAW COMPUTER POWER” with the description – “Experience the speed and raw power of the high-performance Nokia N900 mobile computer.” From the photos seen below, it seems that this latest offering from Finnish company Nokia will be taken seriously.

Check out the slide-out full QWERTY keyboard. This is the N900’s answer to existing Blackberry and similar slide phones that give the user a complete feel of a full keyboard. Although this isn’t new in the market, this is just one reason why you should be getting this phone by the end of the month.

The N900 boasts of a 3.5 inch wide screen touch display with 800 x 480 pixel  resolution. This feature is carried over from one of the company’s first touch screen offerings – the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone.

In portrait mode, the N900 is glossy and displays information clearly.

Carry your music with the N900. Sporting a new album display, you can enjoy your tracks complete with the Nokia Stereo Headset (WH-205) which comes with the unit. Sweet!

Slide that cover and you’ve got yourself a 5-megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss optics Tessar lens with a CMOS sensor. Take a photo with a Dual LED flash for those low-light photo opportunities.

The Nokia 5800 had a separate stand, which came with the unit. Apparently, the N900 already comes with a stand built right in the phone’s body that you can just take out any time you like. No need to carry anything around to enjoy your music or watch your video.

The Nokia N900 is temptingly good to look at in these pictures. The unit should be released to the public around October 19, 2009 throughout Europe. Release dates for Asia and other continents are to be announced. The level of anticipation is rising and the internet cannot wait to have their hands on this latest leap of technology.

Tune in to the Nokia N900 blog for more news.