[ale] Hardware: Nokia's Linux Handheld

[Jonathan Rickman]

If it had a 4GB disk in it like the new Palm, I'd be all over it. As
it is now, it's nothing more than a crappy dumb terminal.

--
Jonathan

On 5/25/05, Randal Jarrett (K4RSJ) <rsj at radio.org> wrote:
> >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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