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Nokia's journey with Maemo, 770, and open source (NewsForge)
NewsForge looks
at Nokia. "Within its research center, Nokia has ported the
Linux kernel to all of its hardware for some time, "just for kicks," says
[product manager Ari] Jaaksi. But the decision was made just under two
years ago to stop toying around and finally make an actual product. Nokia
settled on the Web pad form factor in order to have something complementary
to the cell phone, but that didn't duplicate any of its
functionality. Responding to an audience question on the matter, Jaaksi
explained that the PDA -- similar in size to the 770 -- is a phenomenon
almost solely limited to the United States. Instead, smart phones dominate
the calendar and PIM landscape overseas."
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Nokia's journey with Maemo, 770, and open source (NewsForge) Posted Apr 11, 2006 18:32 UTC (Tue) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link] How about some kind of package deal with a 770 and an E61http://www.s60.com/developers?pbId=28&pbType=-1&c... for, say, $1,000? Trade in on my old Treo600 with the lifeless battery? Please?
Nokia's journey with Maemo, 770, and open source (NewsForge) Posted Apr 12, 2006 13:27 UTC (Wed) by dvandeun (guest, #24273) [Link] What this thing needs is an affordable country-wide data network. Without, it's just a cool toy. With, it would become indispensible to some occupations (system administrators, the police,...) and spread from there, just like cell phones did for some occupations (physicians,...) as a prelude to everybody else wanting one too.
Nokia's journey with Maemo, 770, and open source (NewsForge) Posted Apr 12, 2006 19:36 UTC (Wed) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link] Which problem would be handily solved if they bundled it with a sexy phone. Any GPRS unit could readily serve as a modem.Or they cut a deal with, say, T-Mobile, for HotSpot usage. Except that T-Mobile may have ties to a Major Showstopper...
Nokia's journey with Maemo, 770, and open source (NewsForge) Posted Apr 11, 2006 21:45 UTC (Tue) by job (guest, #670) [Link] I want a Linux cell phone! Now!
Something close to a Treo 650 but with wifi, please.
(Yes, I know of Motorola but they lack the most important thing: developer support.)
you can get a Linux cell phone ... Posted Apr 12, 2006 17:13 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] ... but it's probably not what you want.Motorola has them, but the code is not accessible and they don't provide a way for third parties to program it, so it doesn't matter that they use a Linux kernel with customizations from MontaVista.
Nokia's journey with Maemo, 770, and open source (NewsForge) Posted Apr 13, 2006 2:26 UTC (Thu) by jpick (guest, #29470) [Link] I've got mine working via bluetooth to a Motorola RAZR V3C EVDO phone. I've got an unlimited plan for $100CDN/month with Telus Mobility up here in Vancouver, B.C. I can use my laptop with the phone too - so I'm using it as my primary Internet connection - no cable or DSL for me.
I still have to figure out how to tweak some of the PPP settings, but I worked around the problems I was having by using OpenVPN.
Anyways, I like it - I carry it everywhere. (Some people find that to be a bit too geeky however)
My biggest gripes are just software issues - no asian font support, many websites will cause it to run out of memory, and the email program that comes with it is a complete disaster. The good thing is that there seems to be a lot of motivated people hacking on it, so I think all those problems can be made to go away.
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