Nokia N900 meetup, next tuesday

Just got this from Nokia:

Welcome to the N900 meet-up !

The London meet-up is held in the St. Martins Lane Hotel (www.stmartinslane.com) Tuesday the 17th of November.

The doors open at 7.30pm and the ‘official’ part starts at 8pm. For the following couple of hours you will be able to meet likeminded people, as well as Maemo folks from Nokia and the community.

We will provide some nibble food and N900 demos, so you can get a feel for the device in case you have not had the chance yet or just have fun with it. The event then ends at 10pm after which we can continue the chats elsewhere. We will also have a surprise lottery at the end of the event.

As the space is limited, we have a name list at the door so we ask you to bring a piece of identification with you.

We are very excited about the N900, and we hope you are as well!

Should be interesting.

This weekend I had a play with the Maemo SDK and tried out a number of the apps available. I’m trying to setup the dev environment so I can try out some of my rusty python skills, but part of it wasn’t agreeing with Windows 7 too much. I may have a solution that I’ll try later.

Popped into Nokia Flagship Store again today, but no Maemo Lounge open yet. As it was announced the N900 was shipping out today hopefully that’ll be up and running soon.

N900 seen and played with

Yesterday I heard down the twitter wire that the UK Nokia Flagship store had a N900 in for people to check out so I headed down there at lunch.

I played with it for about 15 minutes. I wont go into too much detail but I definitely liked what I saw. The touch screen was very responsive and the slide out keyboard gave good feedback. The software on the device looked pretty nice but it’ll take a bit more time with it to be sure.

Rumour is that the device will be released on Monday (9th Nov) but the guys in the Nokia store are keeping very tight lipped.

I went back down there today with a friend who wanted to check the device out and whilst there we had a quick chat with Adam who mans the NokiaFlagshipUK twitter account. Whilst there is nothing definite he mentioned there may be a get together with the Nokia Bloggers when the phone is launched.

They are currently setting up a room at the back of the store dubbed the Maemo Lounge which will have 5 N900s to play with and a maemo expert on hand to answer questions. This should be open Saturday or Monday. I’ll be down there Monday to have another look.

On the 17th there is a N900 meetup at the store which is now taking registrations here, I’m signed up and looking forward to it.

My N95 died last night so the sooner the N900 is released the better!