Okay, so did you know that there are Maemo based devices that Nokia doesn’t make? If not, its time to meet the Optima OP5-E, a MID that is made by China Optima. The device was primarily made for the Chinese market, but the company not has plans of making a HSPDA variant for the rest of the world as well.

It incorporates a SIM card slot and is telephony capable, much like the N900 but is its OS is no where as pretty Nokia’s Maemo 5. Although the specs hardware wise …

As I have mentioned before, unlike Nokia’s Symbian devices, the N900 does not have a code that you can enter to format the device and restore it to the factory state. However, if you like playing with software in the extras-devel repositories, chances are that sooner or later you will like a fresh start and want the N900 to be restored to the state in which you first picked it up.

There is no seemingly easy way to do this and I really hope Nokia is doing something about it. That …

The front camera on the N900 will be useful after all! Did you know that you can use the N900 to video chat via Gtalk? As it appears from the following thread, the N900 cannot initiate a video chat, however if the person you are chatting with does so, you can enable video from the N900 and can have your very own video chat.
A number of people have confirmed that this works, unfortunately I have had to send my N900 review unit back and am still awaiting the delivery of …

The N900 seems to be fulfilling every geek’s dream! With each passing day we see something awesome come out, first it was Windows 3.1, then we saw Windows NT 4.0, next was Windows 95, followed by Mer, Debian, Android and now even Windows 98. That is seven different operating systems apart from its very own Maemo 5.
While it is true that most of the OS’s above are more ‘proof of concept’ rather than being actually usable, it still goes to show the awesome power the N900 packs. The one exception …

The PR 1.1 firmware update brings portrait mode web browsing to the N900. In order to enable auto switching between landscape and portrait when the phone is turned hit Ctrl + Shift + O on the N900’s keyboard. The next time you tilt your N900 to portrait, the web browser will automatically switch as well. You can turn this behavior off by hitting Ctrl + Shift + O again.
I’ve put together a very quick demo of the portrait mode browsing on the N900, have a look.

This is a very welcome …

Nokia has just started the rollout of the Maemo 5 firmware 2.2009.51, which is labelled as PR1.1. The rollout started today, January 14, 2010 in Finland at 7am local time and will follow a staggering process country by country through the different time zones.

The update is available over-the-air to those of you who have updated to the 1.2009.44-1 firmware. For those preferring to flash the device: Global, USA and MENA images are available, check this link for instructions on how to flash your device. You can always use the Nokia …

Some more good news on the N900 front – The web based version of the Ovi Store is now accessible to those of you who updated to the 1.2009.44.1 firmware that came out earlier today. This is not an official launch and you will find that quite a few of the applications listed there are already available via various repositories on the phone, however, there are some new apps and games that are definitely worth checking out.

The applications are installed via the Application Manager and I hope that it means …