Buy.com is running a sale on Nokia N800 for $243 with free shipping. The Nokia N800 Internet Tablet exemplifies the epitome of technology, style and portability. The N800 easily connects to the Internet via Wi-Fi or compatible cellular phone. Enjoy the Internet on a portable size tablet with a high-resolution widescreen display in the palm of your hand. Effortlessly make Internet Phone calls, check & send e-mail, instant message and so much more with the Nokia N800. You can also access Internet media at home or on-the-go with the Nokia N800s high quality stereo audio.
TabletBlog posts some new images of Nokia’s FCC submissions. Here’s the full PDF from the FCC site, and it looks like the future generation of the tablet will be getting a sliding keyboard. No WiMAX support, though.
Nokia 770 is currently the bargain of the day at eCost. The price is $129. Want it for somewhat less? You have to register with a deal-seeking site FatWallet, then go to their eCost section, and click through to go to eCost, earning 2.1% (roughly $2.50) payable to you 90 days after the purchase. Before buying make sure it’s really something that you want as eCost is one of those few merchants that rapes you on return policies, refusing to accept any returns, claiming all sales are final, and making you jump through the hoops of manufacturer phone support if the product you got in the mail is defective.
While not N770- or N800-related, these contests might be interesting for anybody developing for Nokia platforms.
2008 Mobile Rules Annual Business Plan and Application Competition will open its gates on August 1st, and right now you can upload your picture to appear on a back seat of a limo in a company of two faithful mobile software engineering fans, supposedly users of your great wireless application. You can read the competition rules here.
Nokia Open C Challenge has the deadline of August 31, 2007: “Entries to the Open C Challenge are mobile applications created for the S60 3rd Edition platform. Each application must include at least one open source software component that is ported to the S60 platform using the Open C libraries or a new application developed in the Open C environment. Feel free to port components that you have written yourself, or code that is freely available in an open source community.”
Nokia has just announced an update to the Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition, feature upgrade release is now available for download. The update (version number 4.2007.26-8) includes Skype client support, Adobe® Flash® 9 browser plug-in, improvements in online use times and single memory card support up to 8 GB.
Buy.com is selling Nokia 770 Internet tablet for $139.99 plus free shipping. From the description, it doesn’t look like it’s a refurbished product:
Whether you’re relaxing on the sofa or enjoying the moment at your favorite café, if you have broadband access over WI-FI connection the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet gives you instant wireless access to the Web. You can also stream files, tune in to Internet radio, News Reader, or play your favorite videos and music.
Visit Woot.com, the online retailer that sells one product a day, for Nokia 770 on sale for $129 and $5 shipping:
There we were, idling away a sunny lunch hour on a bench outside Applebee’s, feeling our lunch of deep-fried chicken wads settle comfortably into our gut and browsing the intertubes with our Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. We’d just opened an email with a very lucrative offer from a widow in Cote d’Ivoire when our reveries were interrupted by a visit from a stranger. Obese, panting, the beer-company logo on his t-shirt stretched and distorted, flesh spilling from both the top and bottom of his sweatshorts, the unexpected caller flopped onto the bench. We feared for our safety as the bench trembled under the strain.
Prominent technology news site ArsTechnica reviews Nokia N800:
In contrast to the frustration I often felt when using the 770, the N800 was a joy to use. The expanded memory, support for SD cards, and most importantly, the beefed-up CPU eliminated the endless delays I experienced switching between applications on the 770. The N800 handles multitasking like a pro. I was able to have two or three web pages open along with a couple of other applications and performance was very smooth—even with an Internet radio stream playing. The menu system is much more intuitive, and within 15 minutes I was comfortable enough with it to navigate the menus without having to think about them.
Nokia today introduced the Nokia N77 multimedia computer offering an optimized mobile TV experience in a compelling and compact form factor with complete Nokia Nseries functionalities.
With the Nokia N77, the latest integrated DVB-H device in the Nokia Nseries range, operators now have greater choice of devices as they further develop their broadcast mobile TV platform to launch and attract more subscribers.
The Nokia N77 enables living room TV as viewers have come to know and understand, but is now available in a small and beautifully designed package to take on the go.
The Open Force has an article on Nokia Internet tablet development program and provides an overview of it:
All of the source code for the N800 is available under open source license at Maemo.org. There’s also a decent SDK, documentation, APIs, various hosted projects, applications and blogs. And there appears to be a growing community of Nokia-toting internet addicts who are out to build new apps for the N800.