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Nokia to Put Google Talk on its Linux Tablet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday May 13, 2006 @08:44AM from the lots-of-things-to-like-here dept.

prostoalex writes "The next version of Nokia 770 Linux-based Internet tablet with WiFi support will feature Google Talk with VOIP in its next release, MSNBC reports. The device is priced to sell at $390, and both Google and Nokia agree that right now it might appeal only to niche markets. In related news, however, it means Google's GTalk client will be ported to Linux, even if it's Nokia 770-specific software architecture."

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Re:no GSM by Jussi+K.+Kojootti · 2006-05-13 09:07 · Score: 4, Insightful

By your logic Nokia should still make all their products out of rubber -- they used to be a rubber manufacturer after all.
More seriously, Nokia doesn't want to end up as a puppet for the telcos, and moving to products that work over IP is one of the ways they can achieve that.