Nokia and Linksys are forming a partnership, where Linksys (a Cisco Systems company) will now bundle 770 with some of the wireless gateways Linksys is selling, Nordic Wireless Watch says.
Head out to Projekttit (whatever that means) to download a 770 video encoding script for your Linux box:
Encode770 is a shell script for encoding videos for Nokia 770. The idea of the script is to add it to your file manager’s (Nautilus, Konqueror, etc) menu so that it can be invoked for video files. The script makes a new video ending with _770.avi in the same directory. It opens a xterm window where it runs the encoding process. This makes it easy to encode wanted files with your favourite file manager.
Nokia 770 is featured on CNET’s worst tech of 2006 list:
This thing, it surfs Internet. You want to make phone call? You can’t make phone call. You like Ethernet? No Ethernet. You get Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi is nice. No wires! You like slow load times? Yes? It is good for that. You like battery that lasts more than three hours? It does not have one. Nice screen, though.
Get your Microsoft Visual Studio .NET ready, as Nokia 770 supports Mono, an open source alternative to .NET developed by Novell.
According to a thread on maemo-users, maemo will have VOIP support by the end of the first quarter of 2006.
That’s the story that’s described over on herraiz blog, and a port would improve the speed and responsiveness of the GUI, supposedly:
As the GNU/Linux version of wxWidgets is developed with GTK, it seems that the applications are very well integrated. For example, they are responsing to maximize to full screen events (with the hardware button). There are still some minor issues, as the menu bar, which is a window placed over the main window. Instead, it should use the Hildon functions for menu bars. Also the virtual keyboard annonyingly appears each time you click in the bottom part of the screen. I don’t know yet why.
Al over at 770Fan asks where is MobiPocket for Nokia 770:
They have stated that we need the Java Virtual Machine on the 770 before they are gonna develop a reader.
Dealing with personal digital certificates on Nokia 770 explains how to use free digital personal certificates for stuff like message signing. Caveat, though - digital certificates are not well supported by Nokia’s browser at the moment.
For those thinking of developing apps for Nokia 770, there are several articles posted in developer blogs. Over at WebNinja there’s a simple example of writing a 770 app in Python:
I really like python. I’ve actually been using it quite a bit lately for some projects for clients. I’m not a great python programmer yet, I still have to look things up fairly often. Not like PHP, where I could probably name every function and its arguments from memory. Anyways, I installed PyMaemo onto my 770 and did your basic “Does HelloWorld work?” kind of testing on it and then got down to business.Teemu Harju is also running an introductory series on Python programming. Coding for Nokia 770 using Python - Part 1 talks about setting up the proper dev environment for simple Python app dev on 770:
In this first part I thought that I’d give instructions how to set up an easy configuration so you can easily code Python on Nokia 770 using your PC and also very easily run your applications on the actual device. I’ll also give an example of a very simple Python application that you can see below. It’s not much, but it is a good start.In Coding for Nokia 770 using Python - Part 2 there are more PyGTK goodies with an example 180-line app:
I’ll explain here some parts of the example code, that can be seen on the end of this post with lines numbered. First of all lets start with the 1st line, in case someone is wondering what it is. It is there only to tell what application should be executed when this script is run in a shell. So you’ll only have to type “./uitest.py” to start the application from xterm.For a quick intro to Python, check out Dive into Python.
A new HOWTO on using Bluetooth GPS device and GPSDrive app with Nokia 770. Pretty impressive project.