Nokia 770 Alive and Well

anon mouse-cow-aard writes to tell us the Register is reporting that the Nokia 770, originally scoffed at by many as useless, is doing quite well. There is even an open source platform development site, maemo, that offers quite a bit. It uses wlan for connectivity and has 'cpu transparency' so you can build apps for normal Debian (albeit with a custom set of libraries) and then run a sort of 'checkout' for the ARM processor, and it will run on the handheld. There is ssh and VOIP coming soon. Overall it is shaping up to be pretty cool.

Comments

Re:In Canada we are left out in the cold M$ world.

[digitalchinky]

Weird, the 770 is already selling in the Philippines. Not sure if that makes the country ahead or behind the rest of the world :-) 3G was switched on about a month ago. Stupidly expensive for data, though 3G phones have been on sale for a long while now.

Re:Some early reviewers scoffed

[Breakfast Pants]

From the mouth of a guy with 7 posts and no karma bonus yet obtained =P.

Re:Some early reviewers scoffed

[Anonymous Coward]

At $800, I could just buy a laptop. Why would I want this?

At 1600 I could get a fast desktop system. And at 25.000 I could get a car. But with $360 I could get a Nokia Tablet 770 and troll from any wlan hotspot just like you.

Re:Outdated apps

[sean@thingsihate.org]

Wow, excellent point, it's a shame they implemented Flash 6 in hardware and it can never be upgraded now!