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James from Tracy and Matt gives us a quick demo and tour of the Nokia N900…

Jay from MyNokiaBlog demoes 9 different homescreens on his Nokia N900. Video after the break… Read more over at MyNokiaBlog

Here are tons of hands-on videos of the Nokia N900, everything from boot time to web browsing and facebook. The videos covers: Booting Desktop, Shortcut and Widget Desktop Background Changing OS without Cancel/Back button Multi Tasking Camera Photo Tagging Phone Web Browser and Facebook

Nokia N97 qwerty users were recently blessed with the introduction of the long-keypress which allows users to access symbols and numbers via this method. This function is sadly missing in the Nokia N900 but this will soon be remedied in the next firmware update as part of the internal build version 2009.52-10, according to Maemo Bugmaster Andre Klapper. [via]

The Release Candidate of Firefox Mobile 1.0 is available for Nokia’s Maemo N900. The release is dated 31 December 2009. Download the new Release by visiting Firefox.com/m via your Nokia N900. You are encouraged to provide feedback and bug reports. Whats New: Easy Web Navigation Optimisation for Touch Interface Synchronise Seamlessly Increased Security

WMExperts’ Phil Nickinson learns about the Nokia N900 and the Nokia N97 Mini. Video after the break… [Via] -- [Via]

Jay from MyNokiaBlog demoes the gallery application on the Nokia N900. Check it out after the break….

The folks at TechnoBuffalo unboxes and takes first look at the Nokia N900. The Nokia N900 is the successor to the company’s Internet Tablet family. The device features cellular connectivity and phone functionality, along with a Mozilla-based browser with full Adobe Flash 9.4 support. Specs wise, the N900 sports the ARM Cortex-A8 CPU, 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen, 5MP camera, OpenGL ES 2.0, Wi-Fi and HSPA. [Via]

This video shows Snowtter on the Nokia N900, a twitter client bringing Xmas feelings for Nokia N900 users. Features: Twitter: Presenting public Twitter messages which contain ”Christmas”, ”Xmas”, “Holidays” or “Snow” Snowing: Different snowflakes dropping realistically with messages Background: Background image can be changed by clicking it Accelerometer: Snowflakes react on accelerometer so user can affect snowing speed/direction by rotating the device

Matt unboxes the Nokia N900 but not your average unboxing. This is the Nokia Hackerbox PR pack that actually requires a computer to “hack” your way into the box [Via]

Check out the Nokia N900’s web browsing skills. The guy at Nokia Conversations shows us the Maemo browser and all its lovely webby talents.

This is a present video of the HTML5: svg & tent capabilities on the Nokia N900. Overnice huh? [Via]

Meet some of the members of the Mozilla Mobile Team as they give you a quick tour of the user interface and features of Firefox for mobile devices, including the Awesome Bar, Weave Sync, add-ons and tabbed browsing, to name a few.

VMware has demoed its mobile visualization platform, which could potentially let users simultaneously run two different operating systems. Head of MVP engineering Julia Alston walks through the system on a Nokia N800 at VMworld Europe

This video shows the deep UI integration of Qt for Maemo 5 -- including custom menus, banners, smooth scrolling lists and rotation suppor.

Paul and I (Jon) have created a video demonstrating how to disassemble the Nokia N900. These steps were purely improvised, as we could not find any other disassembly videos, images, or instructions [Via]

The N900 has only just landed and there’s already a bunch of cool games available that take advantage of the touchscreen and accelerometer. Check them out here.

Nokia Corp., the world’s largest handset maker, Wednesday said Symbian would remain the key software platform for its smartphones, as it forecast a 10% rise in overall industry volumes next year following a period of sharp contraction. In a sign of the growing importance of platforms to the industry, Nokia said Wednesday it had made significant improvements to the next version of the Symbian user interface, as it also gave its first industry projections for next year. “In 2010, we will drive user experience improvements, and the progress we make will take the Symbian user interface to a new level,” said Nokia Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, adding it had “reach and flexibility like no other platform.” He also said that a higher proportion of its smartphones–the one area of the handset market that has continued to grow during the recession–will have touch screens or full QWERTY keyboards compared with previously. The Espoo, Finland-based co...

Opera today launched the second beta versions of Opera Mini 5 and Opera Mobile 10, available as free downloads. In this second beta release, Opera Mini and Opera Mobile users can now enjoy popular desktop features, such as Opera Link and the Download Manager, from their mobile phones. With Opera Link, users can synchronize personal browser settings with their Opera desktop browser, as well as all their connected devices, ensuring that their bookmarks, Speed Dial and search engines are always accessible. The Download Manager gives users a better way to control and speed up downloads to mobile phones. Opera continues its mission to unify its browser products, and today’s beta release is no exception. Features further polished in the second beta release are the unified look and feel across Opera’s browser products, the visual bookmarks known as Speed Dial, and tabbed browsing, one of the most popular innovations in browsing history. “For Opera, ...