Web browsing fiends of the world already have enough reason to envy
N900 owners on account of the built-in browser's excellence and the
availability of an official Firefox release -- both with full Flash support -- but if that's enough, there's now another name-brand option in the works. Well, sort of. You see, Chromium for Maemo isn't an official port -- but the Maemo community is filled with tinkerers, and that has inevitably led to the availability of a hacked version of the Debian release that apparently works quite wonderfully on the N900 (yes, including Flash) with a 100 score on the elusive Acid test. It's said to be a little buggy at the moment, so hopefully that'll improve over time; you've got to download and install the package manually rather than going through a repo, but as an N900 owner, odds are pretty good that you're familiar with the tactic already. Perhaps Google wants to take this little project over?
[Thanks, Sp4mer]
posted April 9th 2010 11:17AM
Sounds promising.
@Palpatine
Something, something, something, Daaaarkside.
@Palpatine. Indeed, What is thy Bidding my Master?
@n0ne, By mocking the Darkside you are showing you underestimate it. (Waves Fist) Do not underestimate the power of the Darrkksside
@Palpatine wow, hey there I thought you were the Pope!... wait you're not the pope right?
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@n0ne
something something something com-plete.
Gah, just makes Nokia all that more tempting.
@iTroll NOKIA NO THE N900 YES LUV THE N900 BUT NOKIA IS SOME LAZY BASTARDS
@Atlantian
Isn't it a little early in the day to be drinking this heavily?
@iTroll
i wish Verizon had Nokia smartphones. not saying i would definitely buy one (a WinMo fan now) but all the Symbian news usually sounds pretty good. i would at least like to try one out.
@SoCoolCurt The N900 run Maemo (Debian Linux), not Symbian.
@iTroll
LOL @ your name! +1
Just shows you the versatility and competence of the Linux community.. now if only there were fewer options, which is often their undoing.
@huh
IMO, the undoing of linux is that it's an OS built by programmers for programmers. It becomes a chore for the average person to learn to use it, and that's why so few do. It also explains why it's so popular for web servers. The average joe isn't out there deploying a web server every day, the programmers are.
As a programmer myself, I don't really like using linux for anything other than programming, mostly because I want things to be intuitive and easy to do when I'm not working.
@Delta Linux is the basis for Meego, Chrome OS, Android, and Palm and others, all of which are pretty easy to use, and anyone can use Ubuntu for general functions. However we're suffering from too many choices. iPhone and Mac are based on Mach/BSD, which is Unix (as Linux is a Unix copy) but Apple can add the cohesion required.
@Delta
There's no such thing as an "intuitive" OS.
i wonder if they're using the flash plugin that comes with the n900 or the plugin that comes bundled with chromium. i really hope nokia releases another meamo phone this year, i like the os but wasn't so gun-ho about the hardware.
@saturnblackhole
NO MORE MAEMO THERE GOING WITH MEEGO NOKIAS BEEN LAZY ABOUT UPDATES SO THEY PARTNERED WITH INTEL SO FAR AFTER ALL THIS TIME THE WORK THEY HAD TO SHOW CAME UP WITH A DIALOG BOX.....BRAVO...
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/31/first-cut-of-meego-available-today-for-n900-and-atom-devices/
BUT THERE IS PR 1.2 YOU CAN LOOK FORWARD TO THAT WHEN EVERY THEY DECIDE TO FULLY WORK ON IT AND PUSH IT OUT
@Atlantian
You are a big fat fail. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Nice!
I don't think it will beat MicroB any time soon, but hopefully everyone will keep trying.
is this thing overlocked or overclocked? or both? :)
@grapeDrank
Nope, 'cause it isn't overclocked from 900 to 1000 mhz. It'd make sense if the stock clockspeed was 900mhz, but it isn't, so it doesn't.
@hated one CAUSE THERE SMART... ITS NOT USER FRIENDLY ENOUGH FOR THE AVERAGE PERSON AND GETS EASILY FRACKED AND NOKIA SUCKS AT UPDATES GO WITH GOOGLE FOR A WIN GET ANDROID
Awesome news i tried it its nice and need a very lil modifications :)
@sirajsoft This is awesome. Pure awesome!!
@Atlantian Do you know what pain I'm going through when you type these comments in all CAPS?
@hated one
Honestly? Because it doesn't work on AT&T's 3G, and people aren't sure if Meamo/Meego will get the same levels of 3rd party app development they're seeing with Android.
@hated one
though Im in Germany the reason is simple ... cant afford it lol
@CtrlBurn
More like because most people can't handle the thought of buying a phone that isn't sold to them on the cheap by AT&T or Verizon. Even on AT&T's EDGE the N900's browsing is quite snappy, even if you don't get Youtube.
As for application development, it's got plenty. Sure it isn't happening in an App Store where everyone's asking $0.99 for every trivial bit of software. But in the end it was never targeted at the Android-buying and App-store developers.
@N900 OH YeAh WeLl SorRy but really at the time i was using bluemeamo and the screen was frozen in that program could use it but could not change settings or leave so i forced my way out finally. my apologies though the only reason your saying anything is cause i have issues with the n900 i try to keep and open mind but the community on meamo.org can be asses not all though but unlike android where they are more helpful
@Atlantian "though the only reason your saying anything is cause i have issues with the n900"
No, not really, otherwise I would have commented on it. I don't really care if you're having issues with my namesake. Just glad that you ended the CAPS brigade.
Well i have to say the default browser is so good that i have no need for this currently. Overclocked N900 already with default Mozilla based browser is by far fastest mobile browser i have tried and it got full flash.
Still will surely follow this as i'm using Chrome on my PC everyday.
@N900
Now if we could just get some punctuation going, we'd be set.
yarrrrgggg flash!
Move over this!!
Now, Windows 7 on the N900!! Check this out (has video)
http://www.mobilesider.com/topic/windows-7-running-on-nokia-n900
@Kasi Viswanath
LOL thats remote desktop....
@Kasi Viswanath
Its remote desktop, eg he's controlling a pc remotely which by itself is nice. There has been windows 95 on a emulator on n900 tho. Completely unusable but shows how open and flexible this phone is.
Now if they could produce as many N900s as they would sell.... Think it's still on backorder in many markets.
@hated one
nokia had 2 other generations of this device (n770, and n800 series) to get it right (tho neither of those had phone capability). the n900 does look promising, but after owning a 770 for a while, I have a bad taste in my mouth for maemo support and this series of devices from nokia. A savy linux user could do a lot with it after getting root access, but it seemed somewhat limited if you were a basic user just looking for a cool device. There was no certified app store, or big app developers, so there were many incomplete and buggy apps that put a damper on how good the devices could have been.
with android (and apple) getting so much traction, it (sadly) puts this device into a category of also-rans. If maemo had the support and stability that android had when it came out, I think this device would have been much more successful in the US.
@i8urCookies
Nokia has never targeted this device line at the people who use the iPhone or Android devices (which is a glorified phone OS.) It's always been targeted as a portable Linux computer. The addition of the cellular modem seems to have confused people into thinking this thing would be an iPhone competitor.
Apple seems to have convinced people that you can't have a good device without an App store full of $0.99 software from BIG NAMES, but all the value comes from its openness. It's not for everyone and frankly, that's a good thing. I like that Nokia is willing to deliver a device that hasn't been locked up and dumbed down for the masses.
this browser sucks! it's damn near unusable (slow) and you can't zoom in. it's a "why bother" since the microB browser on the phone is just fine.
i wonder if i could get chromium on my hd2
My biggest surprise with this phone is when I overclocked it to 900mhz!Now it is the perfect super phone I wanted!.....and all this due to the open source and wonderful maemo community....this is what I`m talking about.....this is what every phone should be!.....open to surprises!
@sophocha
Scorching fast. Fastest i've seen on a phone ever.
Okay I know the N900 is not a spanking new phone, but it must have a heck of a user development group behind it for it always to be coming out with these impressive feats of coding!
Its time to release new hardware for Maemo (or Meego), Nokia. If this phone was thinner and had a Snapdragon, oh man.
@Johnny Rockets
Right, because a Snapdragon would be faster than the chip in the N900. Not. Btw, the overclocking in the N900 is sick!
What's the point in putting it on the N900?
Your taking your phone+computer and turning it back into just an internet tablet.
If your going to do that, just target all the N810/N800/N770 users out there who don't have any major capabilities to loose by going to Chrome OS
@NXTwoThou
Never mind, I'm a tard. Its the browser rather than OS.
@NXTwoThou, and it's not done because its needed, it's done because it CAN be done... We, `Maemoians`, like to tinker with our preciousssss ones :D
@incognito
'Maemonians' haha nice one. I do love to tinker with mine, and i've just decided i'm going to take the overclock route.