Doing the heavy-lifting on the issue for Jaffa this week as he's on vacation. I'd like to appologize to fiferboy for not front-paging his testing article as I'd intended and not thanking him for his help copy-editing this week. The publishing scripts ran an hour earlier than they should've.

Anyway, enjoy!

MWKN Weekly News: 25 July 2011



A little nostalgia

A few of us had N950s arrive in our eager hands last week. Stephen Gadsby, among the lucky, has taken advantage of the opportunity to stage a photograph featuring his Nokia 770, N800, N810, N900 and N950: over 6 years of Nokia Linux mobile computing devices. It certainly brings back fond (if melancholy-tinged, given recent procedings) memories of the development of the platform and its community, and reminds me how privileged I've been to have been along on the ride with such intelligent and talented people.

Somewhat diminishing the impressiveness of the spread, however, (and our faith in his capabilities) Stephen seems to be missing an N810 WiMAX Edition.


Thanks be to the helpful

Thanks to our founder and Editor-in-Chief Andrew Flegg for taking time out of his vacation to help get the issue rolling this week and scripting the publishing process to allow us to carry on while he's taking a well-deserved break.



In this edition...

1. Front Page
   • A little nostalgia
   • Thanks be to the helpful
2. Applications
   • Pre-release v0.12 of FunkeySynth for Harmattan
   • SeriesFinale 0.6.8 - improved startup time & other platforms' clones
3. Development
   • Harmattan development without a device
   • Sharing your Harmattan work with others via OBS
   • Changes to "stable" MeeGo 1.2 being merged without discussion?
   • ...and 3 more
4. Community
   • Reporting bugs in MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan and N950
5. Devices
   • Nokia N9 won't support NFC mobile wallet or payments
   • Minor progress on Nokia N950 FM receiver
6. In the Wild
   • Video: Foursquare – Growing with Nokia
7. Announcements
   • Callerx for blocking incoming N900 phone calls
   • Markets Today (stock tracking app) for Harmattan
   • Nine Men's Morris game for Harmattan
   • ...and 3 more

Yes, that is a disappointing omission. Unfortunately, the N810WE was off being rare and expensive at the time of the photo.

Maybe someday.

Keep an eye out on ebay etc. I got one (to replace my nearly dead "vanilla" N810) recently for not very much at all :-)