Over this weekend, I took delivery of a rather brown device, the Nokia N97mini. Over the course of many weeks, we’ll put the mini through it’s paces and test it to see if it is as good as the saying, “good things come in small packages”.
Till then an unboxing should suffice…
Stay tuned!
Following up to my post on the N900, I thought of adding the videos of the N900 too. So without further ado,
And another one which is a small introduction of Maemo,
And as a bonus let me also share a bit of the code that Nokia released to get all you Maemo and Linux based developers started…
/**
* gtk_helloworld-1.c
*
* This maemo code example is licensed under a MIT-style license,
* that can be found in the file called “License” in the same
* directory as this file.
* Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Nokia Corporation. All rights reserved.
*
* A simple GTK+ Hello World. You need to use Ctrl+C to terminate
* this program since it doesn’t implement GTK+ signals (yet).
*/#include /* EXIT_* */
/* Introduce types and prototypes of GTK+ for the compiler. */
#includeint main(int argc, char** argv) {
/* We’ll have two references to two GTK+ widgets. */
GtkWindow* window;
GtkLabel* label;/* Initialize the GTK+ library. */
gtk_init(&argc, &argv);/* Create a window with window border width of 12 pixels and a
title text. */
window = g_object_new(GTK_TYPE_WINDOW,
“border-width”, 12,
“title”, “Hello GTK+”,
NULL);/* Create the label widget. */
label = g_object_new(GTK_TYPE_LABEL,
“label”, “Hello World!”,
NULL);/* Pack the label into the window layout. */
gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(window), GTK_WIDGET(label));/* Show all widgets that are contained by the window. */
gtk_widget_show_all(GTK_WIDGET(window));/* Start the main event loop. */
g_print(”main: calling gtk_main\n”);
gtk_main();/* Display a message to the standard output and exit. */
g_print(”main: returned from gtk_main and exiting with success\n”);/* The C standard defines this condition as EXIT_SUCCESS, and this
symbolic macro is defined in stdlib.h (which GTK+ will pull in
in-directly). There is also a counter-part for failures:
EXIT_FAILURE. */
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
Now I don’t know how helpful it is, but this is certainly a good way to build rapport with the software programmers. Good going Nokia and Maemo!
Source for the code: http://acurrie.posterous.com/hows-this-for-open-nokia-posts-some-code-to-g
Yesterday, Nokia made one of the most path breaking announcements since the Apple iPhone’s launch a few years ago. Nokia made the rumored, N900, device official. Not like it wasn’t earlier, but yesterday everything we ought to know about the N900 was revealed. The physical product launch will be made at the Nokia World 2009 scheduled to be held at Stuttgart, Germany this September.
So what’s so fascinating about the N900, you ask?
Well, the N900 is the first Linux based smartphone that Nokia is launching. It runs on Maemo.
So what? You ask….
This phone has all the bells and whistles the N97 should have had. In short it is everything the N97 should have been in the first place. A peek below at the specs shall make things clear to you.
Display
Language support
British English, American English, Canadian French, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Swedish, Russian
Connectivity
Battery
BL-5J 1320mAh
Processor and 3D accelerator
TI OMAP 3430: ARM Cortex-A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX with OpenGL ES 2.0 support
Memory
Up to 1GB of application memory (256 MB RAM, 768 MB virtual memory)
Size and weight
Volume:
Approx 113cc
Dimensions:
110.9 × 59.8 × 18 (19.55 at thickest part) mm
Weight:
Approx 181g
Mass memory
Keys and input method
Colour
Black
Operating frequency
Data network
GPRS class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 107/64.2 kbps (DL/UL) EDGE class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 296/177.6 kbps (DL/UL) WCDMA 900/1700/2100. Maximum speed PS 384/384 kbps (DL/UL) HSPA 900/1700/2100. Maximum speed PS 10/2 Mbps (DL/UL) WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g
Call features
Email & Messaging
Web browsing
GPS and navigation
Camera
Video
Music and audio playback
Personalisation
Operating system
Maemo 5 software on Linux
Applications
Gaming
What´s in the box
After reading that huge list you would be wondering, ‘What happened to Nokia all of a sudden?’ What happened is that Nokia has just woken up from a deep slumber. It has made a conscious effort to answer all its critics and aficionados with one product. It has sought to silence its competitors with this one product, The N900.
The N900 means a lot to Nokia and for the mobile industry as a whole. This product is but a cog in what I would call the next wave of change. Come 2010 and the industry would have begun the next step in its evolution. Nokia had realized this and accordingly made changes to its lineup. The Symbian based N97 has in an instant become a relic of the last century, figuratively. Bested by the Omnia HD in terms of hardware, the N97 still is one of the most sought after devices and it will continue to be so.
But let’s face it the N97 is now from the last generation of smartphones. The re-entry of Linux in such a powerful manner means that S60 may not be the ‘preferred’ OS for Nokia anymore. It means that Nokia now has an alternative, a stronger weapon up its sleeve to fight off competition. The S60 still is potent, what with the thousands of apps available for the S60 platform; it is far from being labeled an old timer and the new improved Symbian will emerge soon. But till then I feel it is the Maemo which will pick up the mantle from S60 as the premier smartphone OS.
That does not mean that the potent N86 and N97 are worthless, no! They are the best of S60 and are in no way outdated. The Maemo is simply a new and refreshing way to do things on your phone, a true game changer.
This is one phone that will have many manufacturers running for cover. Samsung will be one of the first to feel the heat, since it is the no. 2 company in this industry.
What I must ask and many will also ask once the hype subsides a bit, ‘Is this a year late from Nokia?’
For more on Maemo: http://maemo.org/
For more on N900: http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/
Yesterday I got a lovely gift from Nokia India and Bloggers’ Mind on my birthday. The lovely people from Bloggers’ Mind sent me an awesome black N97. A fellow blogger call it the Darth Vader among Storm-trooper versions! (d3x… this is you!)
So without wasting any time let me give you the unboxing of the N97. I will be posting in detail about the N97 in the days to come and also the E75. So stay tuned!!! It’s going to get real busy here.
First impressions on the N97 coming later in the day! Till yesterday I’ve been playing with it like a little boy who got his favorite toy on his birthday! This is also my first touch phone so I am going to be critical of it. Expect a huge mountain load of stuff on this phone.
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Just a heads up to all of you who are wanting to buy the Nokia N97 or want to know more! I have been invited to meet Mr. Axel Meyer, Nokia’s Global Design Head for Nokia Nseries. He has been instrumental in designing the much hyped Nokia N97 phone.
Only a select few have been invited for this event and I’m fortunate to be a part of this elite group. So if you have any questions regarding the Nseries and the N97, leave it as a comment. I’ll be meeting him on the 9th of June, 2009 (that’s day after tomorrow!)
Adityasphones would like to thank Nokia India, Prerna Bhagra and Sangita B. Verma for organizing this event and inviting us bloggers for this event. Thank you!
I hope that more such events will be held in India…
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