Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, recently came out with its first high-end smart phone N900, the basic quality of which is that it runs on Linux software. This is not the first time that it has tried its luck at Linux, in 2005, Nokia came out with Nokia 770 which failed miserably because it did not calling services. The basic aim is to compete with the Apple’s iphone as proclai...

Nokia’s future operating system release, Maemo is the talk of the town today. Maemo is Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s open source operating system built on top of the Linux kernel. Nokia currently ships a few internet tablets, namely the Nokia 770, N800 and N810, that run the Maemo OS. However, unlike Android, the operating system hasn’t

For those of you who didn’t know, Nokia has an in-house operating system that currently co-exists with their more talked about Symbian; Maemo. You may recognize the name as Nokia currently ships a few internet tablets, namely the Nokia 770, N800 and N810, that run the Maemo OS. However, unlike Android, the operating system hasn’t

(Credit: New Scientist) Touch-screen handsets may be the talk of the town, but they are useless to the visually impaired. A new software developed by Jussi Rantala and his colleagues at the University of Tampere in Finland attempts to address that by bringing Braille to touch-enabled mobile devices. The team installed a software on the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet with a piezoelectric layer that "dis...

Phone Information The Nokia N800 is the long awaited upgrade of the popular Nokia 770 Internet Tablet anmd uses the Maemo Linux platform which has been developed by Nokia. The Nokia N800 uses the very latest third generation of Maemo “Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition” which adds a few new features to the 2006 edition. The N800

ACCESS has announced the new beta version of Garnet Virtual Machine for Nokia Internet Tablet. Garnet VM was released a year ago and allows the running of Palm OS applications on the Nokia 770, Nokia N800, and Nokia N810. ACCESS has stated that several bugs in the Garnet VM core components and Garnet PIM apps have

ACCESS has announced that the brand new beta version of their Garnet Virtual Machine is now available for Nokia Internet Tablets. Released a year ago, Garnet VM allows running of Palm OS apps on the Internet Tablet devices — Nokia 770, N800 and N810 — hence drastically expanding the list of available for the Maemo

The Nokia N810 alarm interface allows developers to efficiently and easily set alarms programmatically. Peter Seebach illustrates how a small command-line program can hook into this API and make good use of it. The most serious limitation of the Nokia 770 as a potential PDA replacement was the lack of any way to set alarms that could wake the device. A much-improved alarm interface was introduced ...

A while back I tested the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. I wasn't impressed. It was slow and clunky. Since then, Nokia announced the n800 followed by the n810 and the n810 WiMax Edition. Based on my experiences with the 770 Internet Tablet, I didn't pay much attention to these new devices. Still,

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