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Tonight, Nokia hosted the PUSH N900 event in London, showing off various interesting uses for the Nokia N900, including a trick-tracking skateboard, N900 kite, and more. However, the stars of the show were easily the pole-dancing robots, apparently controlled by none other than the Nokia N900! My friend Ilicco was kind enough to snap some photos [...]

After a few unexpected delays, we have finally set a time and date for the DFW Nokia N900 Meetup! If you’ve never been to a meetup, it’s just a gathering of sorts of nerds like us, talking about and obsessing over our favorite gadgets. This meetup will be focused around the Nokia N900, and we’ll [...]

Nokia’s ‘Online as it Happens‘ campaign has inspired a series of mockumercials entitled “Offline as it Happens”. In these short films the main character, John, finds himself caught in a set of unfortunate and embarrassing circumstances as he leads a life “Offline as it Happens”. Obviously, John could have easily avoided any of these situations [...]

The Nokia Conversations blog, Nokia’s official blog, has posted a nice 6-minute video showing off the browser on the Nokia N900, which should hit the market sometime this month. The Nokia N900 uses a new version of the MicroB browser that previous Maemo-powered Tablets have used. This includes a Mozilla-based engine and full Flash support, [...]

Nokia has launched an interesting new contest this week at the onedotzero festival in London. The PUSH N900 project is hosted by Nokia, and invites anyone to tell how you would hack or mod the Nokia N900, powered by Maemo, to connect to something that you love. The project is open to anyone, and has [...]

One of the more disappointing discoveries about the Nokia N900 and Maemo 5 from Nokia World’s extensive hands-on videos was the realization that the device does not actually fully support portrait mode, aside from the phone application. Clearly there are some awesome use cases for using a Maemo-powered device in portrait mode, but for whatever [...]

Nokia used to be known for its Snake game, pre-installed on every device it sold. With the resurgence of Nokia’s new N-Gage gaming platform, they turned Snake into a for-pay title, unfortunately, and have since been experimenting with other titles being pre-installed. Two of the titles being installed on Nokia’s touch devices currently are Global [...]

In addition to the other video footage that we’ve shared from Nokia World 2009 of the Nokia N900, we were able to capture some raw footage of users simply playing around on the device. While not as immediately informative as our previous videos, I think this sort of video is definitely useful, as it shows [...]

While at Nokia World 2009 last week, I was able to get one of the folks on the Experience Lounge floor to give a guided tour of the new Nokia N900, which is powered by Nokia’s Maemo 5 operating system. In the demo, you can get a great feel for the smoothness of the device, [...]