Nokia's Down With Making A High-End Open Source Phone, Just Not With…

When Nokia first showed me their Maemo Linux-powered N800 Internet Tablet, I told them it was cool but that, ideally, I wanted this exact product, smaller, and as a phone. Seems like two years later, this might finally be the way things are headed.

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Download First Firefox Mobile Alpha Release

The first Firefox Mobile alpha—codenamed fennec, after the fox—is up for download, as promised a few weeks ago. Currently, the only actual mobile thing it runs on is Nokia's N810 tablet, but you can play with it on Windows, OS X or Linux. Since we saw the Windows Mobile version over the weekend, it'll probably follow…

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Nokia's Jeppe Web-Controlled Videoconferencing Bot Makes Meetings Even…

That is, if you're excited about the prospect of talking to a creepy joker-faced white beetle with eye holes as hollow as your soul when you're around the conference table. The folks at the Nokia Research Center's Smart Spaces lab are actually intending this design concept for home use, but I can see a lot more…

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Mobile Firefox Is Six Times Faster Than Nokia's Browser on the N810

Mobile Firefox Is Six Times Faster Than Nokia's Browser on the N810Anyone worried about Firefox's penchant for leaving a massive memory footprint when it makes the move to mobile can breathe a little bit easier. The hard optimization tweaks made during Firefox 3's development cycle have paid off: Benchmarks on Nokia's N810 show that the latest Mobile Firefox build is six times faster…

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Android Running on a Nokia N810

Android Running on a Nokia N810We've seen Android running on some phones before, but none of them have gotten us as psyched about the upcoming OS as seeing it on Nokia's powerhouse N810 internet tablet. It just looks plain slick. We can't wait to get our hands on a more complete version of Android, especially if we get to do so on hardware like the…

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Is WiMax All Washed Up? An Open Letter

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Dear Sprint and Intel,
I'm sorry to hear about your recent WiMax delays and struggles, I really am. The Xohm service was originally scheduled to launch this month, but all you've given us are a few prototypes and half-baked demos in controlled environments—the public has yet to see the technology truly in action. WiMax …

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Nokia N810 WiMax Edition Tablet Hands On

Nokia N810 WiMax Edition Tablet Hands OnNokia took the shroud off its WiMAX-capable N810 Tablet today, which promises 4g mobile broadband speeds for the handheld internet tablet. The updated N810 will use Sprint's Xohm service, and adds a new mobile dimension to the device, which was previously Wi-Fi only.

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WiMAX-Enabled Nokia N810 Internet Tablet Launching Soon at CTIA?

wimax810.pngThose of you who didn't win our inappropriate Gizmodo browsing contest for a Nokia N810 internet tablet are probably patting yourselves on the back now, since it seems like Nokia will introduce a WiMAX-enabled version on April 1 at CTIA. So claims Boy Genius and his tipsters. [Boy Genius Report]

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