Blog entries from Maemo community http://maemo.org/news/planet-maemo/ Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:56:53 +0000 FeedCreator 1.7.6(BH) en planet@maemo.org http://blog.dawid.lorenz.co/2011/11/nokia-n9-review-of-disruptive-device.html elopocalypse when Nokia's new CEO Stephen Elop has announced quite sudden and controversial turn towards Windows Phone platform, ditching both homegrown smartphone platforms - Symbian and Maemo/MeeGo - into gloom. Nonetheless, Nokia N9 has received positive reviews from mobile technology blogosphere around the world, which posed the question whether pivotal turn in Nokia's strategy was actually right move? As a former user and fan of Maemo-powered devices, including the latest N900, and also being quite sceptical about Microsoft partnership, I was particularly interested to see N9 myself. Once again, thanks to Nokia Connects I've had a chance to use N9 for past couple of weeks and see how it performs in real life.

Read more »4 1 ]]> Dawid Lorenz <adlorenz@gmail.com> feed:1e6ce51fd0a86b311fd2f72770cdb54b Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:01:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-c957732610b611e1b63529b7142ffaccfacc http://blog.dawid.lorenz.co/2011/02/nokias-towel-has-been-thrown-sad-but.html happy (hmm, apparently not) and disappoint all devoted Nokia fans at the same time by announcing "strategic partnership" with Microsoft.

What struck me today in the morning, once such bold announcement has been made, is that no earlier than few months ago Mr Elop has been quite positive about future of Nokia in context of MeeGo in one of the interviews he gave. What had to happen in-between to suddenly make him claim Nokia as "burning platform" and need to "join an ecosystem" remains unclear. Yet I suspect his Microsoft roots had some influence here but we'll never know.

Nonetheless, this is it. We will now have MicroNokia (or better NoSoft) with Windows Phone OS rather than MeeGo.
Read more »8 1 ]]> Dawid Lorenz <adlorenz@gmail.com> feed:1e6ce51fd0a86b311fd2f72770cdb54b Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:36:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-ee743ce835d311e0853d35aab76988008800 http://blog.dawid.lorenz.co/2011/02/joining-ecosystem-is-like-throwing.html There have been a lot of speculation and rumours since Nokia's new CEO, Stephen Elop has chipped in his famous line "[Nokia] must build, catalyse or join a competitive ecosystem". One of the latest and apparently "credible" rumour is that Nokia and Microsoft are going to join forces, leading Nokia to start offering Windows Phone 7 powered devices under their brand, possibly ditching their own platform(s) instead.

Let's say that is actually going to happen and Nokia will really "join a competitive ecosystem". Regardless if it will be WP7 or perhaps Android, it would definitely mean that Nokia will simply become a mainstream follower rather than loosing-but-striking-back innovator. This would be extremely disappointing and effectively would be understood as "sorry people, we surrender and adopt whatever is already on the market just to survive".

C'mon Nokia, you have far too much potential and power at hand to become yet another "MeToo" mass maker of WP7/Android devices just like HTC, Samsung, Huawei, ZTE and zillion others. You can do better than that. You have created a smartphone back a decade ago in the first place, for God's sake! Don't become the victim of own success but win that success back by brilliant and genuine smarthphones that would leave people breathless. That's surely nothing easy nowadays, yet everyone knows that you really are capable of doing that, Nokia.

As I'm not an industry expert, nor the financial analyst and that's all only my wishful thinking really, so I am not going to elaborate on that more than necessary, yet the closer we're getting to the magical date of 11th of February when all would suddenly become clear, the more worrying rumours appear all around the net and suggest the recent Nokia's promising push towards brand new mobile OS (MeeGo) and development (Qt) platforms is doomed anyway.

Let's hope all these crazy gossips are simply not true and Mr Elop would not disappoint his old and faithful Nokia fans.16 1 ]]> Dawid Lorenz <adlorenz@gmail.com> feed:1e6ce51fd0a86b311fd2f72770cdb54b Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:20:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-84d7e73c318a11e082b6df54aca9e1f2e1f2 http://blog.dawid.lorenz.co/2011/01/5mpix-camera-shoot-out-desire-z-vs-n900.html just fine and perfectly acceptable for less important occasions to me. However, ever since I've got HTC Desire Z in my hands, I was quite baffled with its camera quality. Main thought was along the lines of is this really that bad or is it just bad impression?

So I went and did totally non-scientific and hugely subjective comparison of camera capabilities of the most modern mobile devices I currently have at hand: HTC Desire Z, Nokia N900 and Nokia E72, all of which have 5 megapixel camera sensors. Results were, frankly, quite surprising to me.
Read more »5 0 ]]> Dawid Lorenz <adlorenz@gmail.com> feed:1e6ce51fd0a86b311fd2f72770cdb54b Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:40:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-25a8fecc1d8a11e0844d4b590284e93ee93e http://blog.dawid.lorenz.co/2010/12/nokia-n900-vs-htc-desire-z_364.html
Read more »0 0 ]]> Dawid Lorenz <adlorenz@gmail.com> feed:1e6ce51fd0a86b311fd2f72770cdb54b Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:41:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-3822c4a817f811e08bc3715a8625a7baa7ba http://blog.dawid.lorenz.co/2010/12/santa-came-early-this-year_2014.html rant about Android vs. N900/Maemo I wrote less than two months ago - thanks Santa! Anyway, I am going to use Desire Z as a primary phone from now on, yet I'm not letting my beloved N900 anywhere either and let's say I'm putting it in "standby" mode as a secondary phone. Nonetheless, it will be interesting to see how these two devices directly compare and what I'll specifically miss from Maemo world in Android.
Read more »0 0 ]]> Dawid Lorenz <adlorenz@gmail.com> feed:1e6ce51fd0a86b311fd2f72770cdb54b Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:25:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-37263fa817f811e08bc3715a8625a7baa7ba http://blog.dawid.lorenz.co/2010/10/android-makes-me-cry_6127.html Orange San Francisco aka ZTE Blade. I won't go in too much details about the phone itself, as anyone could easily look it up, but if you're after joining Android world cheaply, yet without much (any?) compromise in hardware area, then ZTE Blade is definitely way to go. Anyway, I have never intended new phone to replace my N900 because of lack of hardware qwerty keyboard which I'm very addicted to, nonetheless I gave it a shot and put my main SIM card into it for few days. That experience made me cry and I'm just about to tell you why...
Read more »0 0 ]]> Dawid Lorenz <adlorenz@gmail.com> feed:1e6ce51fd0a86b311fd2f72770cdb54b Wed, 20 Oct 2010 23:43:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-362fbb2417f811e08bc3715a8625a7baa7ba http://blog.dawid.lorenz.co/2010/08/quick-review-of-cheap-dedicated-car_3785.html Read more »0 0 ]]> Dawid Lorenz <adlorenz@gmail.com> feed:1e6ce51fd0a86b311fd2f72770cdb54b Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:33:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-34ee83f817f811e08bc3715a8625a7baa7ba http://blog.dawid.lorenz.co/2010/08/getting-started-with-qtwrt_8531.html Read more »0 0 ]]> Dawid Lorenz <adlorenz@gmail.com> feed:1e6ce51fd0a86b311fd2f72770cdb54b Sat, 14 Aug 2010 03:01:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-33ff9dba17f811e08bc3715a8625a7baa7ba http://blog.dawid.lorenz.co/2010/05/disabling-smiley-icons-in-conversations_171.html ability to hack those weird icons and bring some old ascii love back to N900 near you.
Read more »0 0 ]]> Dawid Lorenz <adlorenz@gmail.com> feed:1e6ce51fd0a86b311fd2f72770cdb54b Tue, 25 May 2010 14:01:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-3316037617f811e08bc3715a8625a7baa7ba http://blog.dawid.lorenz.co/2010/05/saving-n900-battery-power-with-simple_445.html Read more »0 0 ]]> Dawid Lorenz <adlorenz@gmail.com> feed:1e6ce51fd0a86b311fd2f72770cdb54b Wed, 12 May 2010 21:50:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-3236beb417f811e08bc3715a8625a7baa7ba http://blog.dawid.lorenz.co/2010/02/push-your-imagination-to-limit_8709.html Read more »0 0 ]]> Dawid Lorenz <adlorenz@gmail.com> feed:1e6ce51fd0a86b311fd2f72770cdb54b Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:15:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-2fc90d4e17f811e08bc3715a8625a7baa7ba http://blog.dawid.lorenz.co/2010/01/playing-divxxvid-movies-with-subtitles_3241.html Read more »0 0 ]]> Dawid Lorenz <adlorenz@gmail.com> feed:1e6ce51fd0a86b311fd2f72770cdb54b Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:30:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-2e66ea8417f811e08bc3715a8625a7baa7ba http://blog.dawid.lorenz.co/2009/12/polish-hardware-keyboard-layout-for_3713.html żażółć gęślą jaźń is a huge pain. For those who don't know - every national char has to be entered via little on-screen virtual keypad that appears after pressing Fn+Ctrl keyboard combination.
Read more »0 0 ]]> Dawid Lorenz <adlorenz@gmail.com> feed:1e6ce51fd0a86b311fd2f72770cdb54b Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:01:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-2d92000817f811e08bc3715a8625a7baa7ba http://blog.dawid.lorenz.co/2009/12/nokia-n900-has-landed-and-is-ready-to_8297.html random reboots issue. Despite quite positive contribution of Nokia engineers to Maemo Bugzilla entry regarding this issue, the exact cause wasn't determined (yet) and the most likely explanation is simply a piece of faulty hardware within the unit I have. Having no software-based solution to this yet and knowing there are lots of happy random reboot-less users of N900 out there, I'm planning to arrange a warranty replacement for my N900 next week, so hopefully new unit will work properly.
Read more »0 0 ]]> Dawid Lorenz <adlorenz@gmail.com> feed:1e6ce51fd0a86b311fd2f72770cdb54b Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:18:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-2cb6169c17f811e08bc3715a8625a7baa7ba http://blog.dawid.lorenz.co/2009/11/n900-meetup-in-london-impressions_726.html Read more »0 0 ]]> Dawid Lorenz <adlorenz@gmail.com> feed:1e6ce51fd0a86b311fd2f72770cdb54b Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:48:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-2b9fe7d817f811e08bc3715a8625a7baa7ba http://blog.dawid.lorenz.co/2009/09/i-really-can-wait-for-nokia-n900_8162.html finally announced, oh yes! This is the device I am really, really looking forward to get - even more than any new Android device that could possibly get released this Autumn/Winter. Having some previous experience with Nokia Internet Tablets, and now reading the official specs of N900 I can without much hesitation say that N900 is going to be groundbreaking device for Nokia and is quite likely going to lead the path that future handsets from Finland might follow.

Read more »0 0 ]]> Dawid Lorenz <adlorenz@gmail.com> feed:1e6ce51fd0a86b311fd2f72770cdb54b Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:51:00 +0000 http://maemo.org/midcom-permalink-2ac9376017f811e08bc3715a8625a7baa7ba