Just a few days ago we reported on a 7-inch, Linux-based tablet called the Spark that would be available “soon” at a decent price of $265 USD. More details have been released about the hardware and software the device will be running, as well as…
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LG to Launch Medfield Phone Running Android, Says Korea Times
According to a report from Korea Times attributed to Intel Korea chief Lee Hee-sung, Intel head Paul Otellini will be showing off an LG Android smartphone running Medfield to be released in 2012.
This wouldn’t be the first time that LG & Intel have gotten…
Nokia N9 Gets Landscape Mode with N9Tweak
If you’ve had hands on with the MeeGo based Nokia N9, you’ll be a smitten, but you’ll also be a little annoyed at the fact that you can’t use it in portrait mode. Well, N9Tweak has an unofficial port that works in landscape mode across…
Nokia N9 Unboxing & Lumia 800 Comparison Video
The Nokia Lumia 800 and the Nokia N9 might look identical apart from having a different operating system, but in fact under the hood the phone’s have several differences. The Lumia 800 has a 1.4GHz Qualcomm processor paired with 512MB of RAM and 16GB of…
Nokia N9 Running 7 Operating Systems [Video]
Ok, so it’s not an official Nokia N9, but it’s one of the more interesting handsets that we’ve come across recently. Normally when we come across a knock off its crappier hardware with a few extra’s or subtractions, but finding a knock off with 7…
Swype Alternative Keyboard on Nokia N9 Hands-On [video]
Earlier today an over-the-air update for the Nokia N9 MeeGo phone went out, bumping up the firmware version to PR 1.1. Much to the delight of many users, the popular Swype keyboard has finally been added to the N9.
Vaibhav Sharma of The Handheld Blog…
N9 PR1.1 MeeGo update Ready As Promised
MeeGo might be dead and reborn as Tizen, but that doesn’t mean that its being ignored, the PR1.1 update for the Nokia N9 out as promised. What we’ve got is version 20.2011.40-4 that’s got a whole bunch of updates including NFC tag reading, enhanced music…
Two Dead Products Don’t Make it Right: MeeGo 1.3 on the HP TouchPad
Its hard to shake the feeling that the HP Touchpad is the platform of choice for OS Hackers. The discontinued tablet already has and Android port and now it running the OS that was dead on arrival, MeeGo.
My buddy Ash over at MeeGo Experts…
Nokia N9 Coming in White Later This Year
If you’re a fan of the Nokia N9 then you’ll be pleased to hear that Nokia announced that its MeeGo powered smartphone will be available in a new white polyurethane body later this year. Nokia explained that the N9 was not available in white from…
Nokia N9 Walks the Runway at Stockholm Fashion Week
The Nokia N9 is an extremely stylish and sexy phone, so its no surprise that its ended up on the runway at the Stockholm Fashion Week. The design of this phone is stunning the gorilla glass is particularly note worthy since its actually curved around…
ASUS Still Supporting MeeGo, for Now
Last week at AppUp! Elements 2011, there was an announcement made that MeeGo was going to be joining forces with the Intel, Samsung, the Linux Foundation behind Tizen a new open source software project. Asus has actually just released the Eee PC X101 a super…
MeeGo Moves to Tizen: Are They Keeping Their Developer Community?
At AppUp Elements in Seattle the Linux and LiMo Foundation combined their platform, meaning MeeGo just rolled in Limo’s decades of development and code curation into a new project called Tizen. This platform will have the full support of co-chairs Intel and Samsung.
Tizen will…
MeeGo Reborn as Tizen to be Backed by Samsung & Intel
MeeGo is dead long live Tizen! When MeeGo wasn’t mentioned at IDF last week it was clear that they were saving an announcement for AppUp Elements, the developer conference taking place September 28-29th, 2011. Officially the LiMo Foundation and The Linux Foundation have announced a…
OpenMobile Aims to Solve “Apps Problem” for MeeGo (and other OSes) [video]
MeeGo is a really cool OS meant to run on tablets, smartphones, laptops, and other devices. However, like HP’s webOS, it lacks a number of native apps that are available on other mobile platforms. And as we know, for many users, availability of apps is…
Video: Nokia N9 MeeGo Smartphone Unboxing
The Nokia N9 is the only MeeGo handset to hit the streets and its doing so in markets where Nokia isn’t going to be able to move aggressively in the short term with its Windows Phone 7 version of the handset. So the UK, US…
