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Linux Tablet to be Released in Two Days
Rambo writes "Nokia has finally set a November 17th US shipping date for the $359 770 Internet Tablet. It features a Debian-based distribution called Maemo, which includes kernel 2.6, X.org/Scratchbox WM, and GTK for easy porting of applications. Hardware specs are: 800x480 ) screen, 220 MHz TI OMAP ARM processor (with DSP), 64M of RAM, 128M of flash, USB slave port, 802.11b/g wireless, Bluetooth, IR, and a RS-MMC slot. Even more details at LinuxDevices and Internet Tablet Talk. It sports a battery life of 3 hours for continous Wi-Fi usage, and accepts common Nokia phone batteries. Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Nokia, and am anxiously awaiting my own pre-order!"
Anyone who would choose WinCe over an operating system deserves neither.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
How many more failures can they take before their CEO realizies he's not Steve Jobs and Nokia is not Apple? Their core strength in phones was always more about fashion design than technology, so why reinvent itself? Look at Dell - no R&D, despite being big and sucessful "tech" company, just marketing and distribution. Nokia should do what they do (or at least did) well, just come up with a new cool looking form factor (and don't forget changable faceplates) for an existing platform and leave the business of building a platform to somebody with a clue, like Apple, Intel, Sony, MS, Nintendo, Sun...