Nokia smartphones ‘failing to keep pace’ (vnunet.com)
Dan Worth, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 10 March 2010 at 15:55:00 Reliance on old chip technology could cost market share, say analysts Nokia is failing to keep up with rival smartphone manufacturers in the type of chips used in its handsets, and could be harming its market share as a result, according to analysts.
Nokia smartphones ‘failing to keep pace’ (V3.co.uk via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Nokia is failing to keep up with rival smartphone manufacturers in the type of chips used in its handsets, and could be harming its market share as a result, according to analysts.
VoX Communications Launches Its $69.95 Unlimited Voice and Data Plan on Nokia’s N900 Maemo Smart Phone (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
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Maemo Official Applications Bug Jar 2010.10
A Quick Look at Maemo Official Applications in Bugzilla 2010-03-01 through 2010-03-07 As of 2010-03-08 Maemo Official Applications contains 3105 items (+41 this week), including 852 open issues (-13 this week): 496 open bugs (-4 this week) 11 critical/blocker (no change this week) 0 “easyfix” (no change this week) 117 “moreinfo” (-8 this week) 5 “crash” (-3 this week) 8 “patch” (no change this week) 22 reopened (-1 this week) 185 unconfirmed (-16 this week) 356 open enhancements (-9 this week) 2 “easyfix” (no change this week) 5 “moreinfo” (-2 this week) 15 “patch” (no change this week) 14 reopened (+1 this week) 67 unconfirmed (-16 this week) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (14%) 3888 IMAP-IDLE not working (5%) 5033 Select/Copy text within email is nonintuitive/broken (5%) 5480 undo/un-merge merged contacts (3%) 3700 Put signatures not on top in replies (thereby not forcing top-post) (2%) 3557 Browser tops its windows by itself (N8×0) (+1 this week) (2%) 3762 Performance is unusable on IMAP accounts with a large number of messages in one or more folders (e.g. INBOX) (+2 this week) (2%) 6009 “Enter” key sends wrong keycode to console applications (2%) 7062 Video camera does not record smoothly (+1 this week) (2%) 7190 music stutters while multi-tasking, especially browsing web (+1 this week) (1%) 6045 ENTER key stops working in XTerm (new this week) Please visit bugs.maemo.org to vote.
Optical character recognition on the N900
This week I decided to spend some time playing with something a little different on my n900. Namely optical character recognition. This was inspired by a demo by Cybercomchannel called phototranslator
Top 3 Nokia N900 games
There are not so many games available at the moment for the N900, and so I think it is really clear what the Top 3 games could be. Of course everybody has his own ambitions on games what is the best, but here are my Top three ones, although I don’t count me as an real game fanatic, I am more the just for fun and try kind of type
The N900 – Tips and Tricks Series
If you search the internet for some special functions of your Phone, you will find a lot of things, useful and useless just in a subjective point of view, of what you can do with your N900. Of course you will find tips and tricks on several sites described and discussed, but I will try to gather them all step by step here in our tips and tricks blog, so all these informations can be found easily, all in one place.
Maemo Official Applications Bug Jar 2010.09
A Quick Look at Maemo Official Applications in Bugzilla 2010-02-22 through 2010-02-28 As of 2010-03-01 Maemo Official Applications contains 3064 items (+52 this week), including 865 open issues (+5 this week): 500 open bugs (-2 this week) 11 critical/blocker (+1 this week) 0 “easyfix” (no change this week) 125 “moreinfo” (+1 this week) 8 “crash” (no change this week) 8 “patch” (-1 this week) 23 reopened (no change this week) 201 unconfirmed (+2 this week) 365 open enhancements (+7 this week) 2 “easyfix” (no change this week) 7 “moreinfo” (no change this week) 15 “patch” (no change this week) 13 reopened (+1 this week) 83 unconfirmed (+3 this week) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (13%) 3888 IMAP-IDLE not working (+1 this week) (5%) 5033 Select/Copy text within email is nonintuitive/broken (+1 this week) (4%) 5480 undo/un-merge merged contacts (+1 this week) (3%) 3700 Put signatures not on top in replies (thereby not forcing top-post) (+1 this week) (3%) 8126 OVI Maps spins when not Moving (+2 this week) (2%) 3557 Browser tops its windows by itself (N8×0) (2%) 6009 “Enter” key sends wrong keycode to console applications (+2 this week) (2%) 3762 Performance is unusable on IMAP accounts with a large number of messages in one or more folders (e.g. INBOX) (2%) 7062 Video camera does not record smoothly (new this week) (2%) 7190 music stutters while multi-tasking, especially browsing web Please visit bugs.maemo.org to vote
Maemo Official Applications Bug Jar 2010.08
A Quick Look at Maemo Official Applications in Bugzilla 2010-02-15 through 2010-02-21 As of 2010-02-22 Maemo Official Applications contains 3012 items (+37 this week), including 860 open issues (+8 this week): 502 open bugs (+10 this week) 10 critical/blocker (-1 this week) 0 “easyfix” (-1 this week) 124 “moreinfo” (+1 this week) 8 “crash” (+1 this week) 9 “patch” (no change this week) 23 reopened (+1 this week) 199 unconfirmed (+8 this week) 358 open enhancements (-2 this week) 2 “easyfix” (no change this week) 7 “moreinfo” (-2 this week) 15 “patch” (no change this week) 12 reopened (no change this week) 80 unconfirmed (no change this week) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (12%) 5337 Ovi Maps gives up finding GPS lock too soon (10%) 3888 IMAP-IDLE not working (4%) 5033 Select/Copy text within email is nonintuitive/broken (+3 this week) (4%) 5480 undo/un-merge merged contacts (-1 this week) (3%) 3700 Put signatures not on top in replies (thereby not forcing top-post) (2%) 3557 Browser tops its windows by itself (N8×0) (+1 this week) (2%) 8126 OVI Maps spins when not Moving (+1 this week) (2%) 3762 Performance is unusable on IMAP accounts with a large number of messages in one or more folders (e.g.