Moises Martinez says he’s almost done with a Bloglines port to Maemo platform for Nokia 770. What’s Bloglines? It’s an RSS feed reader (currently part of Ask.com) that has a rather large following and usable interface. Check out Moises’ screenshots, looks like a rather good job.
A whole sleuth of personal information management applications for Maemo 2.0 is available for download from KernelConcepts and Florian blogs about them.
Yannick Pellet is hiring for 7 positions for Nokia 770 app development.
Tommi Komulainen has an extensive post on what’s new in Maemo 2.0 GTK+.
Bowie J. Poag wrote in to mention he wrote a rather detailed Nokia 770 Internet Tablet 2006 OS review. Quite a few details, and you can tell Bowie went into all the details:
Figure this one out. Taking a normal, 512×512 JPEG and making it your background on the desktop takes an unusually long time.. But bringing it up in the image viewer doesn’t take long at all. It was slow on previous versions, but seems even worse now. What gives?
An interesting review of the upcoming Origami tablets from The Inquirer:
My impression of each of these mobile tablet PCs was the same: they’re a bundle of compromises. They try to fill a lot of different roles, but are second best at all of them. The manufacturers have made a valiant first effort, but Microsoft’s UMPC blueprint is not ready to be turned into a viable product.
Calling all developers:
No pre-registration is necessary. The participants will send their ideas by e-mail to by deadline with the heading COMPETITION, which will be considered as participation. For a valid participation it is enough to submit an idea that is viable for Nokia 770. If a participant has made a working demo it will be considered positively in selection of the winner.