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N900 to appear in London next week!
By JBC on 04 September 2009
LONDON, England – The Nokia N900 will be making a special appearance when it forms part of an installation at the BFI on London’s Southbank next week. Running from September 9 to 13 is the onedotzero adventures in motion festival, featuring a special installation which will be controlled by a Nokia N900.
The application for the installation was developed by digital artists Karsten Schmidt and Gary birkett. The app uses live messages from a variety of online sources to create an animated digital projection. The actual visual, projected onto the side of the BFI, can then be controlled by the N900. Tapping into the device’s accelerometer, users can manipulate the projection simply by flipping and rotating the device (check it out in the video below). During the festival there will also be a number of talks around development on the maemo platform, including a panel discussion on Thursday 10 September featuring Nokia’s head of user experience design on maemo, Harri Kiljander.
For those keen to see an N900 up close before it goes on sale, get down to the BFI on London’s Southbank next week. Whilst you’re there you can check out the adventures in motion festival too.
Related posts:
- Nokia N900 at onedotzero – behind the scenes video
- Onedotzero – The story behind the behind the scenes story
- Getting started with the N900 (video)
Tags | N900, Nokia N900, onedotzero
September 4th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
London again? Does nokia not know that theres more to the UK than just bloody London?
Saying that they don’t bother releasing firmware here until months after everywhere else, even for unbranded phones.
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Simplicity Reply:
September 4th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
London will be a useful platform. It has good transport links which will facilitate the arrival of the thousands of betrayed N97 users who have paid the same money for an Alpha product, still not working after 2 months.
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cookies Reply:
September 5th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
i agree…a lot of the early adopters of the Nokia N97 would be disappointed with the n900 phone release. I think they should do a protest there…saying that their N97 is not working very well after 2 months. what a way to go Nokia, betraying customer confidence in n97…well done indeed.
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September 4th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
The N900 does not have 3G video calling … Why on earth is that?
Earlier the Maemo site said, Video Calling: To be announced Later…
what happened?
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September 4th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
No Video calling? I’d be more concerned with the lack of MMS and “use as a modem” But, seeing as this is technically the first Maemo phone, I hope these things will arrive soon after launch.. maybe.. please..
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Reader in Lancs Reply:
September 10th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Technically it’s not a phone at all. It’s an internet tablet that *also* allows you to make GSM calls and send/receive text messages, which is more than its predecessors could do.
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September 4th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Nice that it’s a free event, might have to go book myself some tickets: that’s just how desperate I am to get a glimpse of this device. I hope many networks pick it up on release.
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September 4th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
One thing is to announce a device capability, and another is to show the entire world (or just who’s interested) what that device is capable.
I know (or supose) that Maemo is capable of bigger achievements, but this sounds good enough to start with.
Now Nokia can follow this idea (for advertising purposes), and cover the big whole betwen Nokia’s and Apple’s marketing team. Show what you can do, not by words, but with actions.
Way to go Karsten Schmidt & Gary birkett.
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September 6th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Nó trông khá đẹp và hiện đại
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September 6th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
i need a better games on this device…becoz it packs with lots of heavy gear that can beat iPhone’s ass…go for fun maemo ! =p
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September 6th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
i m a bit concern on the price… will the price reachable for us, the customer in south east asia…
nokia, in my country this brand is the head leader for the cellphone market..
waiting for the price publishing…
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September 7th, 2009 at 7:55 am
Is it confirmed the N900 has no MMS? I use MMS quite a lot, it’s rather expensive but still the best way to communicate in images between friends. I receive quite a lot of MMS as well, so it would be a deal breaker.
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September 8th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Can’t wait for the new Nokia phones – bring them on! They have a lot of convincing to do (iphone) but I have always been a Sony fan. Give me wi-fi and broadband support and I am sold.
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September 15th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
am very intrested in this phone but does anyone know what network/s it will come out on in the uk ?
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September 23rd, 2009 at 7:14 am
Now I want to see picture more Nokia N900,
Thanks,
Sarom
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September 28th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
price?
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October 12th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Release:
The phone will be out within 2-3 weeks here in Switzerland, with a retail price of 800 Swiss Franks, which is 527 Euros, or 781 Dollars.
And I suppose it will be the same for most countries, maybe earlier or a bit later, but surely not longer than end of October or the first week in November.
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November 13th, 2009 at 5:02 am
How about the “video calling” ??? is it really N900 can’t make a video call??!! if that’s true, that’s really bad.. the publishing make n900 seems so powerful.. but.. “Video calling: availability will be announced later” (specs says) what is this means??????? ooohhhh… this year is 2009.. is this make sense!? can anyone tell me about this?? really or not?? plz….
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