If you are a frequent user of the web , I bet you have atleast a couple of podcasts you follow religiously. For me, there are close to a dozen podcasts, without which I start getting withdrawal symptoms!
So obviously I started hunting for a podcast aggregator for my yet to arrive N900 and as always I headed to Maemo Select for my search and look what I found: gPodder. Its a gem of app, which makes following podcasts on your N900 so damn easy that you can install and start using one in less than 3os. Too good to be true? I have got video evidence to prove it.
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The N900 saga refuses to conclude! First came the undue delay in releasing the handset, which was promptly followed by an official launch but handsets mysteriously missing from retailer shelves, which continues to be the case even today after more than 100 h0urs of the official US launch of N900.
While the previous twists in the N900 tale have been nothing but disappointing for N900 fans, the latest twist promises to bring smiles to hordes of N900 fans in the US: Amazon US has now dropped the price of N900 to USD 479.99, making it the second most cheapest deal for N900 after that ephemeral deal from Dell for USD 441.99. While Nokia continues to price the N900 at USD 649, Amazon is giving a straight discount of USD 119.01 (18%) and a USD 50 mail in rebate, bringing down the price of N900 to USD 479.99. Now only if they would announce an estimated shipping date!
Source: Amazon US
It may have been just a couple of days since the N900 was officially released in the US and Italy, but that’s not stopping Nokia from releasing a firmware update to v1.2009.42.11. The 165 MB update is presently available only over NSU and is expected to be made available over OTA in near future.
While there has been no official changelog on the new firmware update yet, early adopters of N900 have reported improved battery life among other tweaks. If you happen to be toying around with a N900, you would probably want to get this latest firmware update from Nokia. There is a catch though: contrary to the recent firmware upgrades from Nokia on their other smartphones, the update to v1.2009.42.11 is known to get rid of all the previous installed applications on N900s. User added files like photos and media files are known to be restored though. So N900ers make sure you backup your devices, before heading to NSU for the update and yeah do drop us a line here and help us compile a changelog for v1.2009.42.11.
After eons of frustration for the N900 fans, looks like the retail units are finally up for grabs in the US and elsewhere. If you happen to be in NYC or Chicago, let me save you the drive to the flagship stores: Unless you have registered for N900 with the stores, you are not gonna be getting one off the shelf at the flagship stores yet.
If you are not on the list of the flagship stores, you gotta wait like the rest of the US for the N900s to appear on the NokiaUS store as well as other retailers (Amazon, Dell, Newegg etc). While the Nokia US online store is still showing the N900 as available for pre-order, even after 48 after official US release, Nokia Italy has gone ahead and silently released the Maemo 5 device in Italy. Kudos to Nokia Italy and by the way, I wonder when Nokia US will learn a few things from their European counterparts. With a disastrous launch like this, no wonder Nokia has a paltry share in the American handset segment.
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After plucking the N900 US launch news out of thin air (read Twitter) last night, I was eagerly waiting for an official announcement from Espoo side on this and looks like the tweet was right. N900 was indeed launched in the US yesterday, the 18th of November 2009, atleast thats what Nokia Conversations wants us to believe.
The official price of N900 continues to be at USD 649, which is what you have to shell out if you happen to drop by the Nokia Flagship stores in Chicago and New York. Even if you are ready to pay in cold hard cash, I doubt if you can get your hands on a retail unit yet for its been around 24 hours since the official announcement and am yet to come across an unboxing video on YouTube or even a tweet of anyone flaunting a retail unit of N900. Whats annoying is that the Nokia Conversations post claims that the device can be bought offshelf from the flagship stores and even online from NokiaUSA and other online retailers including Amazon, which unfortunately is far from reality. A click on either of these online stores, reveals that the N900 is still in pre-order mode.
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Having decided to move on to my “yet to be shipped” N900 for most of my web browsing as and when it arrives, I wanted to see how does my favourite online activity, yeah you guessed it right, ‘facebook‘ing fares on the Nokia N900.
I have had enough of those annoying “facebook videos are presently not compatible with iPhone/iPod Touch” warnings from my iPhone and am really looking forward to the facebook experience on the N900. The flash support on the Mozilla based browser on the N900 is the talk of the town these days and even Engadget has gone ahead and declared this the best browser in mobile segment today. Coming from Engadget who are known to be critical of almost anything that is not Apple, the internet capability of N900 speaks volumes for itself. More importantly for me, does this translate into a seamless ‘facebook’ing experience. Let’s find out, after the break though.
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Multi-tasking is something I am looking forward to on my soon to arrive N900. When it comes to multi-tasking on smartphones there are hardly any good devices in the market today. iPhone, which is considered as the number 1 smartphone by many doesn’t support multitasking (not until you jailbreak it) and the android devices are no good either.
While Nokia devices (their smartphones) have always been known for their multi-tasking capabilities, most of their devices fail miserably when simultaneously running five or more memory intensive applications. Can Nokia turn the tide the other way around with their latest flagship device? Read on to find out.
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After deciding on my must have list of apps for my soon to arrive N900, it was time to see if I will be able to move my internet lifestyle from my laptop/desktop to the wonder device-N900. As with most of the web geeks today, Google apps are an integral part of my life and I can’t even imagine my life without it. So naturally, getting Google apps working on the N900 is a first step towards my web migration to the N900.
Knowing for a fact that the N900 browser comes with full flash support and the upcoming Firefox browser for the N900 looking very promising with full flash support among other things, YouTube was a no brainer but getting other things working on the N900, was something I was looking forward to. Can I or can I not make the N900 my ultimate tool of choice for accessing the web? Let’s find out, after the break though.
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Having sorted out how to