|
Home > News > Tags > MeeGo
|
|
30
More: next 50 >>
Nokia’s N9 smartphone, the only device in the company’s lineup to be commercialized with the MeeGo platform loaded on it, has been around for quite a while now, although it registered little success on the market. However, enthusiasts did purchase it, and many are pleased with their option, except for t... |
7 March 2013
04:30 GMT |
 |
|
A new flavor of the Soundtracker application is now available for download for Nokia devices, with some appealing new features packed inside, as well as with fixes for some of the bugs that affected users’ experience before. Owners of S40 devices (Asha phones included) can now download Soundtracker 2.6, which... |
5 March 2013
05:07 GMT |
|
|
Owners of Nokia Symbian and MeeGo devices will no longer have the possibility to download and install the Nokia Pulse beta application, the Finnish mobile phone maker has announced. Those who have already downloaded and installed the app on their handsets will be able to continue to use it, but no new downloads will ... |
2 February 2013
15:31 GMT |
|
|
Jolla’s Sailfish operating system won’t be ported to Nokia’s N9 smartphone, at least not officially, the company has announced on Twitter.
The startup said that it cannot deliver official support for Nokia’s products, but that there’s nothing preventing enthusiasts from bringing the pl... |
22 November 2012
12:41 GMT |
|
|
Yesterday, November 21, Finnish startup Jolla unveiled to the world its Sailfish operating system and provided some details on the new, modern user interface it proposes.
Sailfish is expected to arrive on devices starting with 2013, yet Jolla has already inked a carrier agreement for it with one wireless oper... |
22 November 2012
04:36 GMT |
|
|
Today, Jolla is set to unveil to the world its first smartphone running under the Sailfish-based operating system, and it seems that it has already secured a distribution deal for it.
Finnish wireless operator DNA has agreed to add the new device to its offering, thus helping Jolla give new life to MeeGo, the mobile... |
21 November 2012
03:00 GMT |
|
|
Today, the Nokia Beta Labs team announced that the beta trial for the Nokia City Lens for Symbian and MeeGo devices has been concluded.
Moving forth, the focus will remain on the development of the augmented reality (AR) application for devices running under Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system.
This ... |
11 October 2012
16:01 GMT |
|
|
Next month, we’ll have the chance to have a better look at the future of MeeGo, the Linux-based operating system that Nokia dropped from its plans not too long ago.
The company has just confirmed plans to showcase the Jolla user interface for the platform next month in Helsinki, Finland. The company’s i... |
4 October 2012
17:51 GMT |
|
|
Nokia might have killed off all of its plans regarding the MeeGo operating system, but the platform will continue to live, courtesy of the Jolla startup.
The company has already offered info on its plans for the operating system, and even said that it might have handsets launched before the end of the year, and some... |
3 October 2012
13:51 GMT |
|
|
Last year, Nokia announced the adoption of a new strategy on the smartphone market, as Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform has become its main operating system for these devices.
As part of this strategy, the company is moving the focus on the development of a series of applications to Windows Phone, while lea... |
1 October 2012
02:58 GMT |
|
|
Mozilla has made available for download a new flavor of its Firefox Mobile internet browser for devices running under Android and MeeGo.
We’re yet not sure what changes have been included in the new app release, as the release notes attached to it are from last month.
However, on Android, the new version of... |
8 August 2012
09:41 GMT |
|
|
Nokia might have decided to kill the MeeGo operating system and to remove it from its future plans, but enthusiasts are still attracted to the platform and continue on dreaming of what handsets it could have been loaded on.
Among them, there is the Nokia 909 concept phone coming from Moody Caplan (via MyNokiaBlog),... |
6 August 2012
16:51 GMT |
|
|
Nokia City Scene for MeeGo has just been updated with a few bug fixes meant to improve the overall experience of the users, as well as the performance of the application. Aimed at Nokia N9 and N950 owners, the application allows users to explore cities in 3D. Nokia City Scene currently features a slew of US ones, bu... |
30 July 2012
04:13 GMT |
|
|
Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has been rumored lately to plan the release of handsets running under Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 platform as soon as September, but it appears that the company might have a surprise for us that month.
At the Nokia World conference in Helsinki, Finland, the handset vendor shou... |
27 July 2012
09:23 GMT |
|
|
It seems that Nokia N9 is an all-rounder when it comes to functionality. Although the smartphone was originally launched with MeeGo platform onboard, it looks like the N9 can run almost any other mobile operating system out there.
We’ve already reported that developers and coders already managed to make the N9... |
23 July 2012
04:58 GMT |
|
|
Nokia has no further plans to launch MeeGo devices, but the Jolla startup is focused on proving that the platform could be successful. At the moment, MeeGo is loaded only on two handsets, namely the Nokia N9 and the Nokia N950 developer device. However, more such mobile phones should arrive on shelves from Jolla,... |
23 July 2012
04:42 GMT |
|
|
For Nokia, MeeGo is dead. The company is shifting its entire focus on the development of Windows Phone devices, thus leaving aside all other smartphone platforms it has been working on. For enthusiasts, however, the platform is alive and kicking, and promises a great future. We’re referring here to the Jolla ... |
10 July 2012
16:01 GMT |
|
|
Nokia announced last year that it would focus its entire resource on Windows Phone platform. The partnership with Microsoft is meant to turn the tides for the Finnish company, which lost its leading spot in the mobile phones sales.
The company’s new CEO, Stephen Elop, stated at that time that the transition f... |
9 July 2012
02:58 GMT |
|
|
Nokia has a lot of great applications to offer to its users through the Nokia Store portal, and is offering some more suggestions for users interested in grabbing appealing software for their devices. The Store is accessible both from Symbian and MeeGo devices, and the company is making sure that users of both plat... |
6 July 2012
15:41 GMT |
|
|
Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia appears to have almost completely buried one of its most popular projects, the MeeGo OS, which landed on shelves inside the highly-appealing Nokia N9 smartphone. Ever since Nokia announced plans to adopt Microsoft’s Windows Phone as its primary mobile operating system for smar... |
5 July 2012
05:19 GMT |
|
|
This week, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia started to deliver a new software update for its Nokia N9 users, namely PR 1.3. The company offered only a brief overview of the update, saying that it comes with various new features, but did not offer specific details on them. On the Nokia developer website, the change... |
4 July 2012
13:31 GMT |
|
|
We reported yesterday on the upcoming Nokia N9 PR1.3 update, and now the Finnish company officially has confirmed the update as being available for download.
According to Nokia, the new update for N9 to 40.2012.21-3 is now rolling out OTA (over the air) in waves during the next few weeks.
Those who currently own a ... |
3 July 2012
07:58 GMT |
|
|
Nokia 808 PureView has finally landed in India and is now available for purchase via authorized resellers for only Rs 33,899 (605 USD or 485 EUR) off-contract.
This is the first smartphone to be shipped with Nokia Belle Feature Pack 1 out of the box. On the inside, Nokia 808 PureView is equipped with a single-core 1... |
13 June 2012
06:21 GMT |
|
|
MeeGo’s version of Whatsapp has just received a new update, which brings several bug fixes and adds support for a few new features.
Dubbed Wazapp, the application is still a work in progress, but developers seem to take great care and deploy fixes and new features pretty fast.
The latest update bumps the appl... |
21 May 2012
14:31 GMT |
|
|
Today, Soundtracker announced the availability of a new flavor of their popular radio application for Nokia devices running under Symbian or MeeGo. Released in the Nokia Beta Labs as version 2.0.4, the new app iteration brings along a wide range of improvements, as well as various bug fixes for all supported platfo... |
21 May 2012
04:35 GMT |
|
|
Owners of a Nokia N9 smartphone can now download and install a new beta version of the Soundtracker Radio application on their devices. The new application release arrives on devices with a series of improvements when compared to the previous flavors, including a fix for slow app start-up. The team over at Nokia ... |
4 May 2012
04:12 GMT |
|
|
Half a year ago, Intel was announcing that it was dropping the name Meego of their Linux-based operating system and was changing it to Tizen. Now they have launched the first stable version of the Tizen SDK for developing Tizen web applications. The Tizen SDK (Software Development Kit) is a set of tools that will h... |
2 May 2012
02:10 GMT |
|
|
Owners of Nokia N9 devices running under the MeeGo platform can now download and install on their devices a new mobile application, namely Download Soundtracker.The mobile software was made available only as a beta release for the time being, and weighs 2.1 MB. According to the guys over at Nokia Beta Labs, this is a... |
4 April 2012
13:01 GMT |
|
|
It looks like Nokia constantly supports the MeeGo platform, and word is that the Finnish company plans to launch more of these devices. According to Netbooks citing an industry insider, Nokia is currently working on two budget-friendly MeeGo-based smartphones. Moreover, the surprising information comes directly fr... |
28 March 2012
09:53 GMT |
|
|
It looks like “Project Mayhem” is successful as the first try on a custom Android ROM for Nokia N9 has just been released online and is now available for download.
The folks at NITDroid who felt disappointed by Nokia turning to Microsoft for the Windows Phone platform instead of trying to get into the An... |
22 March 2012
04:09 GMT |
|
|
Nokia N9, the one and only MeeGo-based smartphone launched by the Finnish company on the market has recently received a major software update that brings lots of new features and enhancements.
It’s not clear whether there will be more MeeGo devices released in the future, but Nokia officially stated that it wo... |
19 March 2012
04:47 GMT |
|
|
Although this might sound like a line from a movie, it is not. Nokia N9 owners can gain access to more areas on their phone through Inception. This is an exploit that works very much in the same manner in which root works on Android devices, only that it was developed for MeeGo's Aegis security system. Throu... |
7 March 2012
11:54 GMT |
|
|
Nokia N9 has got a taste of Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system not too long ago, and is now showing some more of it in the video embedded above.
Some info on the progress registered with the porting of Ice Cream Sandwich to this mobile phone emerged only a few days ago, and more on the m... |
14 February 2012
16:51 GMT |
|
|
Nokia has yet to deliver the second major software update for its MeeGo-based Nokia N9 smartphone, namely PR 1.2, yet it seems that the company is already testing the next OS release for the device, in the form of PR 1.3.
No official info on the matter was made available, yet MyNokiaBlog spotted a recent tweet that ... |
13 February 2012
02:19 GMT |
|
|
Nokia N9 is one of the nicest handsets that Nokia has made available for its users in 2011. The smartphone, however, was destined for a short life, being the first and last Nokia phone to run MeeGo.
But hope is not lost for Nokia N9 owners. Soon, they will be able to take advantage of new features and capabilities... |
10 February 2012
03:55 GMT |
|
|
No later than last week Nokia hinted to an upcoming release of an important update for Nokia N950 developer device, MeeGo PR1.2 beta. However, the Finnish company did not disclose any details regarding the update’s changelog. Although the update that is now available for download only for the N950, the fin... |
25 January 2012
13:20 GMT |
|
|
Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is getting ready to release a new software update for its Nokia N9 smartphone, one that will land on devices as firmware PR1.3.
The company is currently preparing the release of PR1.2 for the device. It does not have an exact release date for the upgrade, but suggests that next mon... |
18 January 2012
08:33 GMT |
|
|
Shortly after the first screenshots of the Linux-based Tizen operating system for mobile phones, Samsung made a surprising move and announced plans to merge its proprietary bada OS with Tizen.Tizen is the true successor of the MeeGo platform. Developed by Samsung, Intel and a number of MeeGo developers, Tizen is expe... |
15 January 2012
12:30 GMT |
|
|
Nokia’s one and only MeeGo smartphone, the N9 will soon receive another software update that is supposed to bring some of the missed features that could not be added in the previous PR1.1 update.
The first screenshots with PR1.2 were revealed last year, but those were taken on the N950, the MeeGo device ... |
12 January 2012
05:50 GMT |
|
|
The open-source project developed by Samsung, Intel and other MeeGo devs is now one step closer to official release. The development team has just announced that a preview of the operating system’s source code (SDK) is now available for download here. It appears that this is an early preview and is not rec... |
10 January 2012
17:11 GMT |
|
|
Nokia N9, the MeeGo-based smartphone that landed on shelves last year, is now available for purchase in the UK for only £349.99 ($544 / 423 Euros) via Expansys.
Only the Magenta flavor of the device features the said price tag, while the Black and Cyan versions are listed at £364.99 ($568 / 441 Euros). ... |
5 January 2012
07:11 GMT |
|
|
Owners of a Nokia N9 smartphone have now at their disposal a new version of the Nokia Link application that enables them to connect the device to a desktop computer.
The first software version arrived a few months ago. Since then, Nokia has been gathering feedback from users, so as to know what can be improved.
... |
29 December 2011
13:01 GMT |
|
|
Nokia N9 can easily prove a great device, even if it has some drawbacks. One of them is the inability to show its three screens in landscape mode. Luckily, a N9Tweak application that resolves this issue has just emerged, and the MeeGo-based handset can now deliver its appealing capabilities in more ways than before. ... |
24 December 2011
05:31 GMT |
|
|
Nokia has just made available for download a new application for the owners of its MeeGo-based N9 mobile device, namely Nokia Pulse. The mobile software was already available for download for handsets based on the Symbian platform, as well as on the new Nokia handsets running under Microsoft’s Windows Phone ope... |
22 December 2011
13:41 GMT |
|
|
Although Intel’s business is still focused on building chips for personal computers and netbooks, the company is trying with no luck to enter the smartphone market with one of its hardware products or some revolutionary software.
Even though the company has been working for years on a low power consumption mob... |
21 December 2011
09:47 GMT |
|
|
Nokia’s augmented reality browser Live View has just been released for the company’s N9 smartphone, which is powered by the MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan operating system.
The application was previously available only for the company’s Symbian smartphones, but Nokia decided to push it to more users.
&ldquo... |
15 December 2011
14:01 GMT |
|
|
We already reported last week that the white flavor of the Nokia N9 has been spotted in Finland at a third party retailer for 630 EUR (835 USD). Today, the Finnish handset maker officially announced that it has started to ship the white N9 in selected regions. The white Nokia N9 comes just in time for the holida... |
12 December 2011
07:44 GMT |
|
|
Nokia did confirm a few months ago a white flavor of its MeeGo-based Nokia N9 smartphone will arrive on shelves soon, and it seems that that time is already here.
The pale flavor of Nokia’s MeeGo-based N9 smartphone was just spotted in Finland at online retailer Verkkokauppa, and should make an official appea... |
9 December 2011
02:37 GMT |
|
|
Plasma Active, a technology used to enhance the browsing experience on mobile devices such as tablets and other similar devices, is very close to being finalized and launched. According to Karl Simons, a KDE developer, rather than the commonplace grid of applications, an Activity view shows a single project, task or ... |
7 December 2011
06:01 GMT |
|
|
We already knew that Nokia was working on the release of new flavors of its Symbian operating system, supposedly called Carla and Donna, but no specific info on what these might be all about has emerged until now.
Today, however, we can have a close look at the UI in these platform releases, courtesy of a series o... |
7 December 2011
03:02 GMT |
|
More: next 50 >> |
|
|
Find us on Google+
