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The Nokia N900 is a very underrated thing of beauty, an almost perfect device but lacking in one key element... Usability!

This is a device that out of the box is an amazing piece of hardware with the curse of a severely under developed Operating System, things didn't get any better as Nokia almost immediately dropped the Maemo OS to move on with a new venture in Meego. Fortunately development was handed over to the community and has recently bloomed.
The N900 is still a device that will seem like a slab of stone with a chisel unless the user is quite technically minded and that's the purpose of this blog, to inform people of the wonderful things that can be done to turn this device into a killer!

Saturday 25 September 2010

BBC iPlayer Working Again

Finally after hours of messing around I've cracked it!

Here are the instructions to get iPlayer working on the N900 again...

Step 1: Install the application ‘Hide User Agent’ from the N900 Extras-Devel repositories.

Step 2: Open the N900 SETTINGS and select under Connectivity the ‘Hide User Agent’.

Step 3: Press the 'User Agent' Button, and input the following string without "" quotes

"Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; en-us; Nexus One Build/FRF91) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1"

Select Ok and then press Set.

Step 4: Restart the Browser and visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/iplayer

Voala the Google Android Low quality flash site working on the N900.

Remember if you want to go back to the N900 UserAgent to remove it from the settings menu.

-Update 24/09/2010 23:43 -

PLEASE NOTE: To Access the Ovi Store webpage you have to switch the user agent back to Maemo


Link to my post on Maemo.org http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=62871
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  1. Unknown25 September 2010 at 17:11

    It's so good to see people in the community still developing work arounds for Maemo on the N900. It's a shame Nokia dropped it :(

    I went for a samsung galaxy and you are right... Froyo is amazing :)

    Had the port for N900 been ready I'd have kept it. The hardware was perfect :)

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