Using N900 on the road for business
An article has been released outlining the N900's use a day-to-day business companion. Beside writing about phones, I also work as a Pharmaceutical Marketing Professional, sometimes , my duties take me far and wide of Pakistan to meet clients and during my travels I found Nokia N900 to be a perfect business companion. The article is interesting because the N900 has typically not been seen as a business-oriented device. Especially given its N-series designation and Nokia's stated focus on communication and web browsing, but it goes to show how user-dependent devices experiences really are.
MeeGo workgroup at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit
The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit was also host to a MeeGo workgroup on the second day of the event. Firstly, the obvious that everybody says after a conference: very nice to assign faces to nicknames, very nice to have opportunity to answer the questions you have directly to the right person and very nice to do networking. There were no news in the presentations but the talks were very productive in a way that lot of questions were raised and answered by the speakers like that the Qt will be more than a UI toolkit to become the application toolkit, acting as an interface to access the device resources. There was the nice talk from Marcel also about the connectivity part followed by the technical panel with architects from Nokia and Intel. Both myself (Ryan Abel) and Randall Arnold were in attendance representing the Maemo Community. The workgroup was an excellent opportunity to connect with many of the people Intel-side and Nokia-side who do not have a presence in maemo.org. Interest in MeeGo seems high, with representatives from Fujitsu, Samsung, Qualcomm, Sony Ericsson and others in attendance, the MeeGo workgroup room had at least 75 people in it for most of the day.