Analysts at Ovum came to the conclusion that the Finnish Nokia is noticeably behind its competitors in terms of performance. Many companies have made their choice in favor of ARM Cortex A8 processor and Qualcomm Snapdragon, neglecting ARM11. However, Nokia still uses the latter in its smartphones.

The report says that Nokia phones need a little improvement in order to be more competitive. It is noted that only Nokia N900 is equipped with advanced processor (ARM Cortex-A8, 600 MHz), but Nokia N97 and Nokia N97 mini work with ARM11, the clock frequency of which is only 434 MHz.

The amount of RAM in the most advanced models of Nokia is 256 MB, while our competitors have phones that offer twice more. HTC HD2 is brought as an example, working with Qualcomm Snapdragon processor with a clock frequency of 1000 MHz and equipped with 448 MB of RAM.

The matter also concerns displays. Nokia currently prefers resistive screens, but most users prefer capacitive technology. There are about twenty devices in the market, equipped with high definition displays, while there is only one such device – again Nokia N900in the portfolio of the Finnish manufacturer.

The smartphone Nokia N900 only for 120$? It is possible, but only with a condition that it is not original Nokia, and collected on an unnamed Chinese factory Nokla. It is not only similar to the original by appearance in the folded position, but can boast with the pull-out keyboard. These are the only similarities of the phones, though. The screen of “nokla” measures only 3.2 inches, while the resolution is ludicrous – 320×240 pixels.

Only the presence of two slots for SIM-cards may be mentioned as a plus, but almost every Chinese phone can boast with this qulity. And do not be deceived by “iPhone like” icons of the operating system – there is no trace of smartphone here, and from the additional programs you can install only Java-based applications.

Of course, it is useless to try to find a driver for printer hp for such NOKLA N900. Actually, there is no optics from Carl Zeiss, 3G, 32 GB of memory and processor ARM Cortex A8. But the price is not bad without argument.

The operating system, developed jointly by Nokia and Intel, will appear in the form of a test version soon.

Recently, one of the representatives of Nokia, who is involved in work on MeeGo operating system, said in his blog that the first version of the operating system will appear at the end of the month. According to Valterri Hull, the blogger, the appearance of the first version also means the discovery of the code by the developers, who will be able to begin the study of the new platform.

Let us remind, that MeeGo is considered to be a joint project of Nokia and Intel. At the MWC 2010 exhibition the companies announced that they will combine their developments (Moblin and Maemo), creating an ideal mobile OS. The owners of Nokia N900 mobile computers will be the first to have access to MeeGo, and later a version for devices working on Intel Atom processors will be released.

In case if you are an owner of smartphone Nokia N900  and also the PlayStation 3 by happy coincidence, you have a great chance to save on the purchase of additional gamepad for the latter. You need nothing else than straight arms and a little time for that. It is sufficient to just download Extras-Devel emulator BlueMaemo Bluetooth from the repository, then to make a simple configuration and interface with the console. And that’s all – you have almost a full SIXAXIS (trade name of gamepads for PS3) at hand, the only difference of which from the original is that all the buttons here are with touch control.

The only serious drawback of this emulator is the absence of analogue joysticks, which are simply absent on-screen applications. So such “gamepad” is  fitting more for simple arcades of PSN, rather than to control the characters in serious actions or car races. In addition, it is not very convenient to press the “Shifts”, which in case of BlueMaemo Bluetooth are located in the corners of the screen.

Such a space is open for harmless trolling! You can, for example,visit an electronics store and control the exhibited console at the demo booth from your device quietly from the corner.

Some Nokia N900 British users encountered a problem while charging their Internet tablet. It is manifested in the following problem: the plug charger too snugly connects to the connector of the device. As a result, several users pulled the microUSB port of the Nokia tablet entirely when they tried to unplug the charger.

The representative of Nokia commented on the situation: “The users that are confronted with this problem must contact the local service centers of Nokia. The same guarantee applies not only atot Nokia N900, but also to other Nokia devices. We apologize for any inconvenience.”

Nokia company has updated Maemo platform for N900 smartphone, releasing a new firmware. This update was the third since the output of the device on the market in November 2009. The Volume of 3.2010.02-8 version firmware is 16.2 MB. According to the manufacturer, the owners of a mobile terminal can update the firmware either through the Internet connection of the device itself, or manually by downloading it from the webpage, and then by using the Maemo Flasher utility.
This patch is a service, and therefore does not bring any major feature enhancements. However, the update fixes several bugs detected previously by developers and users of the N900.

600 megapixel processor and 256 megabytes of RAM of Nokia N900 smartphone should be enough to run nearly all operating systems, including Windows XP and the majority of Linux distributions. But until recently there was a possibility to run only Windows NT 4.0 and a few Linux-assemblies.

Now we have progress. You can find online descriptions of the ways to start Windows 95; this operating system works quite fast and stable on the N900. And you do not even need to remove the existing N900 in the Maemo default distribution for its installation.

The developers of Mozilla Company presented the first official version of their Firefox browser for Maemo OS mobile operating system and for Nokia N900 devices. Previously known under the codename “Fennec”, this browser offers the mobile users almost all the same features and possibilities of expanding, as the desktop version.

Awesome Bar Universal Address line, which is implemented in a mobile Firefox, helps to move to the favorite sites by pressing two or three keys. The Weave Sync technology lets you synchronize tabs, history, bookmarks and passwords with the desktop copies of Firefox – your browser with all the settings will now be able to follow you anywhere in the world. One of the most anticipated features is the support of extensions, bringing the current popularity of Firefox desktop– yet, the users can have more than 40 extensions. The developers can create mobile extensions to Firefox using the latest web technologies, including HTML5, CSS and JavaScript, extending functionality.

The function of viewing Web sites considering the location of the user (Location-Aware Browsing) helps to produce maps and other information about the place where you are. Support of the tabs is added with the view of the contents of the tabs as sketches. The Instant Web Site ID integrated service provides additional safety – you can use and edit your personal settings of security for different web sites and web pages. The separate enjoyable moment was the localization of the newly released official browser for more than 30 languages, and this number continues to grow up.

With regard to the extensions for the Firefox browser for Mobile 1.0, we should mention such expansion as TwitterBar for working as a micro blog, AdBlock Plus for blockades of the advertisement and YouTube Enabler for the comfortable work with an extensive video hosting service. These and other extensions to the mobile Firefox can be found in the gallery of mobile extensions. The browser itself can be downloaded from the mobile device. After the release of Firefox for Maemo/N900, it will be soon released on the Android platform, and on several other systems. The bad news is that the edition of the mobile Firefox on the platforms of BlackBerry and IPhone will not be significant in the plans of developers.

Evernote Service, which allows users to create and store any information, articles and content, announced the launch of the Evernote Sharing Plug-in application for Nokia N900 Smartphones.
This plugin, developed by the experts of Nokia, adds Evernote in a built-in functionality. This extension of basic capabilities of N900 allows users to send pictures in Evernote from a camera and a photo gallery, as well as another content.

To create this plugin Nokia used Evernote API interface for developers. Immediately after the installation process, users are able to transmit information of different types into their Evernote directly from the standard menu for sending data.
Once got into Evernote, all data are processed and made available for searching. Viewing notes created on the phone or in Evernote customers for other devices, can be realized through a browser using the N900 device with a help of an optimized version.