[ale] Hardware: Nokia's Linux Handheld

[Randal Jarrett K4RSJ]

>From /.

Hardware: Nokia's Linux Handheld	

	
Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 25, @09:48AM
from the gadgets-i-want dept.
Nils Faerber writes "Today Nokia announced the introduction of the Nokia
770 Internet Tablet device along with the Open Source based Maemo
Development Platform. With this new product Nokia enters several new
worlds all at once. A new concept for the use of a handheld device, a
new fully visible open source based development process and the explicit
use of open source software in a commercial grade product. The typical
use case for the Nokia 770 is to be the internet usability extension to
your mobile phone or other wireless internet access equipment. It is
extremely portable by its small formfactor, usable for almost all
internet applications thorugh its exceptional resolution of 800x480
pixel and its multimedia capabilities by making use of a TI-OMAP CPU and
a accompanying digital signal processor (DSP) core. The consequent use
of open source software and technology basing on the Linux kernel 2.6,
X11-server technology and the GTK+ toolkit the resulting new Hildon
graphical user interface creates a fully new user interface experience
for portable Linux devices."
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Randal Jarrett  <rsj at logix.net>
RSJ Consulting, Inc
Lawrenceville, GA
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