Maemo, Android & the Nokia N900

Meet ‘Ubuntu for Android’ – a side-by-side pairing of the Android and Ubuntu OSes on a single phone, the latest part of Canonical’s ‘multi-device’ future for Ubuntu.

Designed to coexist with Android on users’ multicore smartphones, the new version of Ubuntu is designed to launch the full Ubuntu desktop when the phone is docked with a keyboard and monitor. The rest of the time, the phone runs Android as usual.

All data and services are shared between the Ubuntu and Android environments, so Android data and applications such as contacts, telephony, and SMS/MMS messaging are accessible from the Ubuntu interface.

The desktop is the killer app for quad-core phones in 2012,” said Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth in the Canonical announcement. “Ubuntu for Android transforms your high-end phone into your productive desktop, whenever you need it.”

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This guy has made by far the best and easiest script/tweak for the N900.  Together with power-kernel 47 and Uptimes up to 20 days. My N900 has been extended with some life juice For the whole story check Maemo.org to be sure what you are doing.

For those who can’t wait here let’s begin!  

DOWNLOAD

Part I: Scripts

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Section 1:

1. Download the 3 attachments from here:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p…postcount=2322

Save them to an easy to access location, such as desktop.

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I’m not really ‘that guy’ who would buy an iPad or iPhone, i just don’t like those mass production Apple stuff. I would buy an Linux-based Tablet more likely. But anyway if u haven’t already, here is a peek of the new Android 3.0 Honeycomb.

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Wide-angle high resolution panoramic views are now possible on the N900. panorama application produces high-quality smooth panorama images by automatically capturing pictures. Link

http://zchydem.enume.net/2010/08/15/quickflickr-on-n900/

I use this converter which converts your movies to the best screensize (and performance) for your Nokia n900.

Firefox Mobile 2.0 alpha (aka Fennec) hits Android and Maemo

Bleeding edge Firefox fans will be happy to know that an alpha version of Firefox mobile 2.0 (aka Fennec) has just landed on Android and Maemo devices. If you’re running Android 2.0+, or if you’ve got a Nokia N900, you can download and test out the latest version of Mozilla’s mobile browser right now.

Highlights of Fennec 2 include navigating through tags via swiping gestures, rendering pages with the same engine used by the desktop version Firefox, and support for add-ons. It also syncs bookmarks, passwords and open pages and tabs with Firefox on your desktop.

(That last feature will be familiar to anyone who’s tried Firefox Home on the iPhone).

Our friend Brad Linder at Mobiputing recommends moving some components of Firefox to your SD card on Android, because this is the first version of Fennec that will let you do that. Also, remember that this is still alpha software, so speed and stability should improve drastically by the final release.

Firefox Features
Release notes

As posted on Aircrack-NG.blogspot.com

NeoPwn  v2  released (private beta)

They plan to do two betas:

• Private beta containing the control panel, the injection driver and installer but the number of requests is limited
• Public beta without the control panel, injection driver and installer once the project has reached beta stage.

The final version will be free to download when it is completed and a safe installation process has been developped.

Their website contains more details about the release plan.

I tested the driver and so far it is working really well as you can see:

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Nokia brengt op 30 juni een testversie van MeeGo voor smartphones uit. De versie van MeeGo die onlangs uitkwam, was alleen voor netbooks bedoeld. De eerste smartphone met het MeeGos

, de N9, moet nog dit jaar uitkomen.
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