Nokia 770 Alive and Well

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday January 7, 2006 @02:28PM from the underdog-success-so-far dept.

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.

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So much to do! by DemonWeeping · 2006-01-07 16:32 · Score: 4, Informative

I've been blogging my experience with this one like mad:
http://thoughtfix.blogspot.com/

Posts today:
- Using the device's USB host mode without soldering a special cable
- Using an iPod nano as external storage

Lots of other things too, like enabling sshd and other thoughts and wishes.