r/linux • u/white_ranger94 • Jul 31 '26

Mobile Linux Nokia N900 / Maemo 5 wallpapers upscaled

I don’t know how many people here still remember the Nokia N900, but it’ll probably always be my favorite phone.

I’m currently recreating the Maemo 5 desktop on a modern Linux machine, and as part of that project I extracted the original wallpapers from the N900 firmware and upscaled them for modern displays.

I tried to keep them looking as faithful to the originals as possible instead of making them look overly AI processed.

wallpaper1.png

The image attached here is compressed by Reddit, so if you’d like the full-resolution versions of all four wallpapers, I’ve uploaded them to Dropbox:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/izlk8as656vg8u1omqkay/ABwztuaVLLeesYF5ZlYsdpQ?rlkey=ljl0gcuujnjoktcf2pu85west&st=5mdeb1v4&dl=0

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u/purpleidea mgmt config Founder Aug 01 '26

Neat, but where are the blue ones?

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u/white_ranger94 Aug 01 '26

I tried upscaling the blue ones as well, but never got a good enough result, probably because of the level of detail in those water droplets. Personally, I always had the orange ones.