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Nokia's Linux Handheld

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gadgets-i-want dept.

Nils Faerber writes "Today Nokia announced the introduction of the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet device along with the Open Source based Maemo Development Platform. With this new product Nokia enters several new worlds all at once. A new concept for the use of a handheld device, a new fully visible open source based development process and the explicit use of open source software in a commercial grade product. The typical use case for the Nokia 770 is to be the internet usability extension to your mobile phone or other wireless internet access equipment. It is extremely portable by its small formfactor, usable for almost all internet applications thorugh its exceptional resolution of 800x480 pixel and its multimedia capabilities by making use of a TI-OMAP CPU and a accompanying digital signal processor (DSP) core. The consequent use of open source software and technology basing on the Linux kernel 2.6, X11-server technology and the GTK+ toolkit the resulting new Hildon graphical user interface creates a fully new user interface experience for portable Linux devices."

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  1. The nokia Internet tablet by the_xaqster · · Score: 5, Funny

    Take 2 and call me in the morning....

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  2. Left-handed model? by oni · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I doubt there will be a left-handed model. Pretty much every PDA or device like this one has buttons on the left side, which I can't use because I'm holding the device with my right hand because I need to write on it with my left hand.

    Oh well, sucks to be me I guess.

  3. GStreamer by JohnFluxx · · Score: 5, Informative

    Please note that it is also recently revealed that Nokia has been funding GStreamer ! Thank you Nokia!

  4. Battery Life by AngryScot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    3 hour battery life seems to be a little short if you are going to be traveling and want to use it.

    I suppose you could charge it in your car...

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  5. It's $350 by jolyonr · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not sure where you got the price from, but my sources say it's going to be $350.

    Jolyon

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  6. Re:Seen it already... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    cough PSP cant surf the web *cough*

    nor can it read emails, play streaming radio and at least 60 other things.

    the PSP is a neat portable game but a webpad it CERTIANLY is not.

    so how do you click on a fricking link because the PSP lacks a touchscreen? and when is FLASH going to be released for the PSP?

    *cough*

  7. ... but shame on you, Nokia... by lowieken · · Score: 5, Insightful

    for wanting to impose software patents on us in the EU!

  8. Re:Good by garcia · · Score: 4, Insightful

    people will realise that Linux is not necessarily hard to use.

    If by "people" you mean the general non-computer-geek population, then I really don't think they care what OS the unit is running. Tivo is easy to use and runs on Linux. Archos media players are easy to use... The list continues.

    Linux *can* be difficult to use, especially as a home OS. UIs that lay over the kernel and OS don't have to be.

  9. you're in luck by cahiha · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's open source and it's X11 based. That means that RandR probably works on it and you can just rotate the screen 180 degrees.

  10. Screenshots! by spectrokid · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.maemo.org/screenshots.html

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  11. No 3G/GSM? by ubera · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think it's a pity that the rather beautiful design and obviously neat software doesn't include Nokia's core function: mobile phone connectivity (and not through BT).

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