Roger Sperberg over at InternetTabletTalk shares his strategies for making 770 more useful:
So then came Joe, the text editor, and vim. What, a text-to-speech engine? Flite went on. And Granule for flash cards. The GPE-PIM trio. Happiest day? When Tomas Frydrych casually let slip how to install fonts. I put in a dozen I can’t live without (Maiandra, Trebuchet MS, Gardiner’s hieroglyphs). Comfort food for the eyes: Look, I control how text looks on-screen! I tried things out, I removed what i wasn’t using.
AOL’s EnGadget named Nokia 770 the handheld of the year. What’s exciting is that it won both the editors’ and the readers’ picks.
Henri Bergius, a motorcycle and open source enthusiast, according to the blog tagline, desribes his first day with Nokia 770:
Since the device runs Linux, I’m also looking forward to developing some Python applications to make mobile work easier. Especially I’m interested in exploring the use of position information to create the real-world Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galary. Placeopedia RSS feed will be an excellent starting point for finding “information near you”.
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The app notifies BlogLines subscribers of new items in their RSS feeds.
Intel is preparing to launch its ultra-mobile handtop PC, TGDaily says:
According to Paul Otellini’s keynote speech at IDF Fall 2005, UMPCs will integrate a new category of processors that will consume as little as 0.5 watts. Intel executives also mentioned that UMPCs will achieve a continuous operation time of about eight hours. Our sources now tell us that at least the first generation of UMPCs may not include such a new processor, but rather rely on a proven platform, which will consist out of ULV Pentium M processors with 90 nm Dothan core as well as a 915GMS chipset. Intel is also very aggressive in extending the wireless feature set of UMPCs. Wi-Fi capability is a standard feature by now, but Wireless WAN - such as EVDO and HSDPA - as well as integrated GPS capability will be able to draw some attention to those devices.
Jim Thompson on Smallworks (I never worked for Vivato, but spent a significant portion of my life in Spokane, so the blog was always an interesting read for me) points out some counterarguments to Russ Nelson’s idea:
Russell appears to want to recreate the PC in the image of the 770, completely ignoring the simple fact that the 770 was not designed as a PC replacement. The USB port on the 770 is there to make the 770 act like (and appear to be) a USB “mass storage” device.
Gnumeric 1.6.2 for Nokia 770 is out. Gnumeric is a spreadsheet application, GNU’s answer to Microsoft Excel.
MaemoWiki has a document on becoming a root on Nokia 770.
Evince 0.5.0 is out. What’s Evince? Evince is a document viewer. It primarily displays pdf, though djvu, tiff, dvi, postscript and even comics archives are also supported.
Remember Newton? Apple-branded PDA that some say was a complete product failure, some say was an idea ahead of its time? NewtOS/Einstein now works on Nokia 770. The neat photos are here, the binaries for Einstein are here.