The popular and perhaps the best Facebook client for Symbian devices, fMobi is now available for the Nokia N900 as well. The full featured client packs in all the Facebook functionality that you would want like notifications, access to the news feeds, messages and even chat.

It features:

• News feed
• Chat
• Profile
• User info
• Messages
• Check In / Places
• Sound notifications
• Top Friends
• Liked Pages
• Groups
• Events
• Commenting / Liking
• View comments / likes
• Albums / Photos
• Notifications
• Landscape / Portrait
• Black / White theme

fMobi on the N900 (Maemo 5) comes with the chat functionality disabled out of the box, and because this is the first release there might be some connection popup issues if you don’t have a network connection and you enable chat. You can give feedback here, and download the .deb fMobi file for the N900 from this link.

That’s not all, here is something for you N950 and prospective N9 owners, fMobi is also coming to MeeGo soon.

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We finally have official word on when the Nokia N9 will launch – 49 days from today. The official countdown has gone live on the Nokia Sweden N9 page, so the launch date will probably be just valid for Sweden, but it does give us a pretty accurate estimate of when we can expect the device in other parts of the world.

Nokia Sweden has been at the fore-front of N9 marketing, they’re even giving 30 N9′s away. There is still no clarity on the which countries will get the N9, but we now know that the list has grown from the original 23 and includes South Africa, Italy, Brazil etc.

[via: Engadget]

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The brilliant N9 Seconds competition, after giving people around the world sleepless nights and barely productive days at work, is now over. With that comes an end to the misery of not being able to break the codes, which I’m sure all of us have spent countless hours over. So if you’re wondering what exactly you had to do in order to break the code and win yourself a Nokia N9, wonder no more as the Nseries blog has published a key.

Some were easy, some hard and some codes needed your to be a certified geek before you could get close. As you will see, you were very close to cracking some of them, even the hard ones. I know I was.

Many congratulations to the 20 winners and to Nokia for pulling off an exceedingly exciting competition. We can’t wait for the next one! For now, head over to the Nseries blog.

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If you’re a open source developer and looking forward to making apps for the MeeGo Harmattan, and had missed out on the first lot, there’s some good news. The community device program has been extended and they not have 50 more N950 devices to give to developers. There are a few conditions though:

“Candidates must have real open source code published and functional via Qt Creator simulator/emulator, Scratchbox, running in similar platforms e.g. Maemo, Symbian, Linux desktop. It can be unstable and far from complete, but we want to see real work done already as a primary way to filter candidates”.

If you think you meet this criteria, then head over to this page and put your name down. There are already a bunch of people who’ve signed up, so you might want to hurry up.

If selected you could be one of the few people in the world to have one, since it’ll never go on sale. Motivation enough?

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The popular network security tool Aircrack-ng has been available on the N900 for a while now, but using it needed quite a bit of understanding of the technicalities involved, along with a mastery over the terminal. Enter Cleven, a user interface for the aircrack-ng app that that makes compromising WIFI networks a matter of hitting a few buttons. But doesn’t mean cracking a WIFI network of someone other than your own won’t land you in jail.

It provides the ability to easily configure the injection drivers, scan for surrounding stations, and using injection and authentication or deauthentication, capture Identification Vector keys. In addition, it provides interfaces to decrypt the captured files and manage the successful attacks.

All the details you’ll need to make to work are right here. While Cleven isn’t the first GUI for the aircrack-ng suite, it gives you one more option. There’s also fAircrack.

Warning: Use these tools at your own risk and only for legitimate purposes. Remember your neighbour’s WIFI isn’t fair game and no, desperately needing to check your Facebook while in a local internet café without paying is NOT a legitimate purpose!

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While we wait for Nokia to ship the N9, here’s something to give you a taste of the HD video capture goodness inside it. Bill Perry has taken 30 videos from a pre-production N9 and stitched them into one 2 minute clip that shows-off the N9′s capabilities capturing close-ups, how it handles direct sunlight and the detail that it can pull off.

He also point out that the only editing done in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 was to adjust the duration of each clip to sync with the music and that no color correction or any other type of post production was done. You’ll agree, the results are pretty impressive.

Next, if you’d also like a taste of what still capture of the N9 is like, Bill’s uploaded three shots. The pictures were taken with the default camera settings – Scene (Automatic), Flash (Automatic), White Balance (Automatic), Light Sensitivity (Automatic), Aspect ratio (16:9), and Resolution (High).

You can click on each image to view them in the full 3552 x 2000 glory.

The Nokia N9 might not be the N8, but it is definitely shaping up to be a camera phone that you’ll be more than happy to bank on for your everyday needs. Nokia, just ship it already!

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The people at the helm at Nokia could see this and say, heh, do you even know our N9 strategy? Or may be that you’re missing the bigger picture, and how its now a war of ecosystems. I get that. This is in part a rant and in part a post on thinking aloud about what could Nokia do to stem the impending bloodbath that the next two quarters would bring.

Nokia Sweden is looking for 30 people to test drive the N9, and by test drive they mean – they give you the device, you play with it, you talk about it, and after all that is done, you get to keep it. That’s not all, they’ll even award one person from the lucky 30 with a weekend in London if they think he or she did the best job in that role. Brilliant.

So whats the catch? First, the contest (English translation) is only open those of you in Sweden, there’s nothing in the terms and conditions about that (as far as Google Translate and I can tell!) but I’m assuming that anyway. Next, to enter you need to make a strong pitch and then get your friends on Facebook to back you up. After August 21, they’ll pick 30 people who’ll get to rock the N9 as test pilots in September and October. There’s also a N9 Summer Tour that kicks off on the 15th of month and passes by a bunch of Swedish cities before ending in August.

All of this at least tells us one thing, the N9 will probably be in stores come September. For the rest of the world, you can still win a N9 here.

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Remember yesterday’s 9 second Nokia N9 ads? Yes, the ones that are over if you decide to blink. Well there’s more to them than what meets the eye. Accompanying the ads is a brand new contest that can win you a Nokia smartphone, I’m guess a N9! Hit n9seconds.com and you’ll see the following screen awaiting a six character code.

The answer to this code it seems is hidden the videos, there’s 6 of them so I’m guessing each video gives you one character, fill them in and perhaps you’ll be the smart cookie who cracks this. There is also the following at the bottom of the page, more not so easy to understand hints.

Finally, there are 20 codes in total, only two of which have been unlocked so far. There’s also a @N9Seconds Twitter account that keeps track of codes that have been tried. The contest is open to everyone over the age of 15, worldwide. It closes once all 20 codes have been found or on 31.12.11 if no one’s able to crack it, but I won’t bet on it lasting for so long. If you want a N9, get cracking now.

Good luck!

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The Nokia YouTube page has just been updated, its all about the N9 now. But Nokia doesn’t believe in simple videos these days, remember the pretty cool interactive N8 unboxing? This time they’re bringing something new to the table, 6 ads in less that 60 seconds, making them perhaps the world’s Quickest ads.

Hit the page to see a set of 6 ads that run for about 9 seconds on average covering the N9′s design, camera, maps, social functionality, browser and its general awesomeness. You may be surprised how the message can be conveyed in such a short amount of time. Infact, it’d be great if all ads were like this, we’d save a lot time!

The idea behind the ads seems to be to show how the N9 can become an integral part of your life, yet be innocuous, letting you focus on what you’re doing rather than making the phone the center of your attention.

Its a fun watch!

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