[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Wonderful device from Nokia...

[From: Alexander.Farber at nokia.com]

Hi,

sorry for an offtopic, but you could also point your Zaurus-
owning friend here: http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html  ;-)

Regards
Alex 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org]On Behalf Of ext Wooky
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:46 AM
> To: maemo-developers at maemo.org
> Subject: [maemo-developers] Wonderful device from Nokia...
> 
> 
> I also have great expectations for N770. It seems that it can achieve
> an important milestone in Linux-based PDAs, and suceed where others
> have failed. While I disliked the marketing of the N770 as a simple
> "internet tablet" at first, since it was obvius that it had the
> potential to be much more than that, it actually makes sense. It can
> have a greater penetration in the not-so-Linux-inclined market that
> way, specially considering there is nothing remotely similar with its
> intended price tag.
> I had a friend who had a Zaurus once, and he complained (of lack) of
> available software, compared to Palm and PocketPC devices, and
> expressed his fear that might too happen to the N770. I pointed him
> some of the projects already ported and showed how easy was to port
> existing GTK+ apps to Maemo. Since we live in Brasil, I was specially
> happy with the work of the guys from INdT (which I had never heard of
> till now) with Python in Maemo.
> It's time there was a developer, open-source friendly PDA in the
> market. I sure hope the N770 will be a thundering success - and I also
> hope it will be available here in Brasil as well.
> 
> Jeferson Lopes Zacco
> 
> 
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:52:43 +0300
> > From: "Karoliina T. Salminen" <karoliina.t.salminen at nokia.com>
> > ext MetaVoid Developer wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > >how this wonderfull device from Nokia came to life.
> > >
> > >
> > Yes, indeed, it is a quite cool device and I have to admit 
> that it is wonderful thing to have it in the handbag everywhere.
> > I have the privilege to use a prototype and I am beginning to wonder how
> > anyone could live without :). Actually I don't need to use laptop for
> > browsing
> > some web page at home, just tap the 770 screen and the web page is there
> > and when
> > on outside the home, the device seamlessly connects through my GPRS phone
> > (we of course have wlan at home - we have used it for years, even when
> > it was
> > not so cheap, but now anyone can buy a wlan base station since they have
> > now became
> > cheap mass market devices and the wlan is no longer fun of the early
> > adopter persons anymore alone).
> > And because of the pretty impressive screen resolution 
> (especially with
> > considering the physical dimensions
> > of the device), it is pretty well readable too and is not
> > a reduced web-experience the devices with lower screen 
> resolution tend to offer but
> > fully usable for web browsing, etc. But this is just my humble opinion
> > and I have nothing
> > to do with any product marketing stuff etc. :) I will propably equip my
> > device with a 256 MB or 512 MB RS MMC
> > since I have found it to have also very good quality 
> headphone preamp which
> > works fine with my Sennheiser HD-600 headphones (which are known to have
> > problems with worse quality headphone amplifiers (e.g. in my old Fujitsu
> > Lifebook notebook I have
> > had some distortion problems) because of the abnormally high impedance
> > they have) and of course
> > the connector is a real headphone connector which is cool too, no
> > additional adapters needed.
> > I don't have a dedicated mp3 player so far, so I like to use the N770
> > prototype as a mp3-player.
> > The playback time when the screen is off seems to be a lot longer than
> > the browsing time before the battery runs out.
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > Karoliina Salminen
> > karoliina.t.salminen AT NOKIA DOT COM