One of the things I am looking forward to is the brand new Maemo 5 HTML email client. The words that are used for the email client are ‘Nokia Messaging’ but it is not a separate application like it is on Symbian devices. Here is a small video of the same by the Maemo 5 UI Team.

From the initial reports coming in, setting up your email on the N900 is as simple as entering your username and password. What do you think of the N900?

One of the things that I dearly miss on Nseries devices when it comes to video capture is the lack of auto focus in the video mode. Slightly older devices like the N82 have a fixed focus while recording video which is set close and newer ones like the N85, N96, N97 and so on have it set slightly further. This fixed focus limitation also means that making macro videos is virtually impossible.
The N900 fixes this. Like the picture mode, you will be able to use the auto-focus function when …

As the Maemo Summit goes on, the N900 seems to be becoming more desirable by the minute. First up a is an extensive 70 image gallery of the N900 (courtesy UMPC Portal) posing with its predecessor the N810, N82, Archos Internet Tablet, Viliv S5, Omnia Pro and other mobile devices. But the more impressive feat is embedded below where it takes on a 720×400 DivX video with a bitrate of 4Mbps and plays it brilliantly over TV out on a giant 50″ LCD.

The N900′s speedy hardware sure shines through and …

Skype on the N900 is one of its highlights and yesterday at the Maemo Summit, Mark Douglas, the product manager for Skype on the N900, revealed the following details in his keynote. Skype on the N900 will use the platform UI with branding so that they can be deeper integration with the N900, it will also support multiple accounts.

As of now video calls over Skype are not supported, however, support will be made available if possible. Rest of Skype functionality including instant messaging, call forwarding …

We told you about the Maemo Central launch today morning and since then there has been considerable activity on the N900/Maemo front, considering the fact that today is the first day of the Maemo Summit. The N900 has been unboxed on video, we also now have details coming in about Maemo 6 (multitouch and capacitive touchscreens are a go). Nokia has announced the official port of Qt to Maemo 5 and word is out the Portrait browsing is coming to the N900 by Christmas.

If Maemo or the N900 interests you, …

A little over a month ago when Nokia introduced the N900, I asked you what new direction should The Symbian Blog take? Quite a number of you took the time to reply (thank you!) and were keen on Maemo and N900 coverage, so that settled the first question as to whether I should covered the aforementioned subjects. The next question was how do I do that? Should I expand the horizon of The Symbian Blog and include Maemo as well, or launch a new website.

I thought about it and as …

Yesterday we told you about Maemo.org’s Maemo 5 application page going live and today brings even more good news. Maemo Select, a section on Nokia’s Maemo site that highlights the best applications, themes and wallpapers for Maemo 5 (read N900) has gone live today with a few more apps.

Maemo Select will cover applications from the Maemo Community as well as the Ovi Store. Yes, the Ovi Store. The Ovi Store is coming to the N900 by the end of the year and will feature both free and paid applications. Currently …

Like we told you Nokia today gave all Maemo Summit attendees a pre-production N900 on loan for 6 months. Unboxing videos were therefore bound to follow, here’s the first one. The packaging is just like the N97 and if you look around the room a lot of other people are unboxing their devices as well.

The first mass unboxing of the world. Enjoy.

If you not following this most excellent liveblog, I recommend you should. According to details about Maemo 6 coming out from the Maemo Summit (via the liveblog) in the keynote by Janne Heikkinen, Director – Maemo Product Planning at Nokia we now know that multi-touch is coming to Maemo 6, so is support for capacitive screens. The main developer frameworks will be Qt (4.6) for native development and Nokia Web Runtime (WRT) and that the alpha of Qt for Maemo 6 is expected in Q1 2010 with the beta following in Q2 2010 …

News from the Maemo Summit is starting to flow in thick and fast. First up, the N900 will get portrait browsing via an update before Christmas. Currently, the only application that works in portrait mode on the N900 is the telephone.
Next, we have been hearing about this for a while now, but Nokia has just officially announced the QT port to Maemo 5. This means that developers can now use Qt to target the upcoming Nokia N900 and also ensures that applications can be easily ported to all Qt’s supported …