Got some great news to our Nokia 5800 readers. The Nokia 5800 latest firmware v40 is now hackable which means that you now can install unsigned application withing signing them. For more info about the hack and how to hack the device, take a look at this forum thread

[Thx Szakalit, PNHT, Adonix]

Here is an in-depth look at Nokia’s N900, which is based on Maemo 5. The Nokia N900 brings the power of computer to mobile devices. It’s a high performance mobile computer with advanced Maemo 5 software on Linux. Explore Nokia N900 features like multitasking on a live Dashboard, wide screen video capture, 3,5“ WVGA touch display (800 x 480 pixels), QWERTY keyboard and personalisable panorama desktop. The Nokia N900 also features 1 GB of application memory and up to 48GB of storage. Maemo browser is powered by Mozilla Technology and includes Adobe Flash 9.4 and full AJAX support. Wi-Fi and 3.5G connectivity provides fast access to Internet. Take high quality photos and wide screen videos using 5Mpix camera with Carl Zeiss optics. Tag photos and browse them using the tag cloud, and see where images were taken with the automatic geotagging. Merge your phone book, Skype contacts and other contacts into an all-in-one address book. And naturally, N900 has a phone application for voice calls.

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This is a short video, no voice, just guidance, on how to get a certificate for Symbian mobile phones. You need one of these to combine with a signing tool so that you can sign applications and then they can be installed onto the phone.

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The Nokia N97 software update release 2.1 will be available through the Nokia Software Updater on Monday 1 February. The software version number will be 21.0.045 (RM-505) or 21.2.045 (RM-507) depending on your region, and should be available by 08:00 GMT. The release for N97 China 2G (RM-506) will follow shortly. This 2.1 release offers additional improvements to the 2.0 release made last year.

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This is a Currency Converter for the Nokia N900 which includes a simple calculator with Tax and Tip buttons. The exchange rates are automatically obtained from the internet. You can find some more screenshots after the break…

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The Nokia 5233 gets unboxed by CJ. Head over to the next page to view the unboxing video.

As you might know, this is Nokia’s latest “affordable” budget Touch device, and is basically the 2G (aka 3G-less) version of the Nokia 5230.

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This is a review of the 1900mAh VR227 – Storm battery pack for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Enjoy!

Firefox browser for Maemo devices (Nokia N900 etc) goes final only 3 days after the RC3 release. There are currently over 40 Firefox add-ons available. View the catalog here, or search for and install add-ons directly from the Add-ons Manager. Extensions installed in the Firefox for Maemo 1.0 may require updates to achieve full functionality.

Download Firefox for Maemo by visiting Firefox.com/m on your Nokia N900. You can also go to Firefox.com/mobile and send an SMS text message that contains the download link directly to your Nokia N900. If you don’t have an N900 you can download a build of Firefox for mobile to your desktop in order to test, provide feedback, and build add-ons. Desktop builds are for development purposes only and don’t have full functionality:

• Windows
• Mac OS X
• Linux

Updated with video: Nokia N900 browsing with Firefox

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