Sometime back we have covered about Maemo, an Open source, Linux-based operating system that is designed to run on high-end mobiles. The latest N900 from Nokia runs on the Maemo 5 OS (Fremantle). There are also other Nokia Mobiles like N800 and N810 which are based on the older version of Maemo OS. Maemo is definitely an advanced Mobile platform that supports many enhanced applications. Though there are many impressive applications available in the market, here are most popular and must have applications for your Nokia N900.

Skype

Skype on your Nokia N900 will allow you to make worldwide conversations at a lower price. Skype facilitates you to make free Skype-to-Skype calling, Call phones with Skype credits or subscription, Receive calls on your Online Number, make Instant Messaging and Group conversations with File sending and receiving capabilities included. Skype requires a 3G or Wi-Fi connection enabled in your phone and the Skype contacts appear in your phonebook along with display of the online status of your friends. You can download Skype by visiting http://skype.com/m from your mobile.

Facebook

Facebook widget, a popular social networking application allows you to communicate with your friends, update your status, and instantly share photos and videos with your friends using the ‘Share via Service’ option in the Camera, Photo, and Media Player applications of your phone at your convenience.

Evernote

Evernote allows you to remember and recollect things in life using your Nokia N900. It is a fully integrated application for N900. You can take notes, add snapshots, clip a web page, add tags to the screenshots or organize notes into different notebooks and then easily send them to the Evernote for remembrance. Everything you captured will be automatically processed, indexed and made available for quick search in your Nokia N900. You can search your notes by keywords, titles, and tags and Evernote magically makes printed and handwritten text inside your images searchable, too.

Qik

Qik is an impressive application for your Nokia N900, which allows you to share live videos with your friends. You can share your best-captured moments at a button’s press and share your Qik videos to your favorite social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Qik automatically archives your memorable moments and allows sharing them with your loved ones.

Documents To Go Viewer Edition

Documents To Go Viewer Edition from DataViz provides access to view Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2003 & 2007 files and attachments in your Maemo device. Documents To Go Viewer Edition offers features like zoom, find, and easy access the documents on your Nokia N900. It is certainly an essential application for business users who intend to stay productive at the same time avoid carrying their laptop.

Fring

Fring for Nokia N900, is basically a mobile internet community and communication service which allows you to socialize with your friends and improvise your online contacts. Fring provides various added benefits of internet communication including VoIP, Instant Messaging services, Skype, Google Talk, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!, AIM and MSN Messenger. With Fring you can share your availability, exchange messages in real time and transfer files to others.

TuneWiki

An amazing social media player that allows you to listen music while watching subtitled lyrics of the selected songs. TuneWiki enables you to experience music in a unique way. You can even estimate geographic locations of other people while listening to specific songs and artists. TuneWiki facilities you with LiveCharts to access real-time music from different countries along with a special feature of translating of lyrics to your desired language.

VNCviewer

Virtual Network Computing for maemo, provides capabilities to view a ‘desktop’ environment from anywhere on the Internet. The latest version 0.6.3- fremantle2 of VNCviewer facilities the users to connect to the VNC server running on different systems and display its desktop. VNC viewer also features a forced toolbar for full screen.

gPodder Podcast Client

gPodder Podcast Client is a Linux-based application which allows you to download free audio, video contents( Podcasts) from the internet and watch it on your device. It is a very easy to use podcast aggregator with a specialized UI optimized for Maemo 5 and the Nokia N900 mobile computer. gPodder is simple, usable podcast client which supports audio and video equally. It is an open source and free software available for your N900.

FriendStatus IM Statuses Aggregator

As the name indicates, this application provides you with the latest statuses of your friends present in the Instant Messaging (IM) list. You can even view the statuses from a specific friend and interact with them.

AdBlock Plus

AdBlock Plus is a port of AdBlock Plus v1.0.2 that runs on Maemo Browser with the default EasyList block list. You have to re-boot the phone after installation of AdBlock Plus to get enhanced performance.

Load-applet

Load-applet is a small Status-bar applet that displays the CPU load along with the memory consumption. It has a menu featuring options to take screenshots, record screen casts. This App will be very useful if you are a developer, blogger or a tester with a N900 in your hands.

Password Safe

Password Safe enables you to maintain an encrypted password list in your Nokia N900 phone. “Password Safe” allows you to have a different password for all the different programs and websites that you deal with, without actually having to remember all those usernames and passwords. The data is encrypted with blowfish in CBC mode.

Conversations Inbox Desktop Widget

Conversations Inbox Desktop Widget enables you to check incoming SMS and IM messages quickly. The IM chat messages and the incoming SMS’s can be directly viewed on the desktop, which avoids jeopardy of opening multiple applications in your phone.

Countdown Home Desktop Widget

Countdown Widget for your desktop helps you keep track of your events in much quick and easy manner. The Countdown widget is visible on your desktop and shows all the upcoming events. It is quite simple to customize the entries in the countdown widget.

If you feel that there are still better and useful applications then do let us know about them in the comment section. Also mention about your favorite applications for Maemo Devices.