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Nokia 770 Alive and Well

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on 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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  1. Re:UI looks amateur by Eustace+Tilley · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think you are out of your mind.

    PSP screen resolution: 320 x 240.

    Nokia 770 screen resolution: 800 x 480.

  2. Good reasons for no cell phone embedded by DemonWeeping · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I can think of several good reasons to keep this APART from cell phones:
    • I already have a cell phone
    • I already have a cell carrier and contract
    • It keeps the price of the unit down
    • One internet tablet can work on all carriers
    • I go through cell phones faster than I go through pants
    • Carriers will want to lock down the device and "get in on the pie" with software releases
    • Carriers are greedy and don't like open-source
    Good enough?