Nokia 770..

[neowolf]

Yes it's the older model Internet tablet.. (Yes it's basically a rebranded Linux PDA - at least what we tend to think of PDAs as being hardware wise..) But I've just picked one up. Really lovely device and running a surprisingly full version of Linux. (It's freaky to see the X11 stopwatch cursor on a handheld.) The main motivation in picking one up is that if you look around you can find one for under $150 now. I've been craving a PDA with an active company and more secure future, this is it~

[chedabob]

Does it take absolutely ages to boot up though?

[fiasco8]

Originally Posted by neowolf

Yes it's the older model Internet tablet.. (Yes it's basically a rebranded Linux PDA - at least what we tend to think of PDAs as being hardware wise..) But I've just picked one up. Really lovely device and running a surprisingly full version of Linux. (It's freaky to see the X11 stopwatch cursor on a handheld.) The main motivation in picking one up is that if you look around you can find one for under $150 now. I've been craving a PDA with an active company and more secure future, this is it~

A linky and some pictures would be awesome! I'm interested in comparisons with mine.

[chedabob]

Does it have GSM support? Or is it just wi-fi?

[neowolf]

Originally Posted by chedabob

Does it take absolutely ages to boot up though?

Originally Posted by chedabob

Does it have GSM support? Or is it just wi-fi?

Bootup is indeed lengthy for a PDA, though it's got a pretty intelligent sleep mode so bootup doesn't have to happen regularly at all. (Most of my rebooting has been over changing some of the desktop plugins around.)

Wifi and bluetooth sharing from a celll phone. I believe the successor is getting a version with some sort of WiMax support.

Originally Posted by fiasco8

A linky and some pictures would be awesome! I'm interested in comparisons with mine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_770

Quickie for now. Not much pics of my own other than on my desk near my new keyboard and mouse. (I'm on a blue LED trend there..)

Also ordered a 2GB RS-MMC card for it for ~$40. That should give me plenty of room.

[NapalmRiot]

I think I know what that is...

I think my friend had one at one point.

[chedabob]

If the 770 is the old one, which is the new one?

And what's the homebrew support like? Firefox? Decent media player? Games?

[neowolf]

Originally Posted by chedabob

If the 770 is the old one, which is the new one?

And what's the homebrew support like? Firefox? Decent media player? Games?

Nokia 800's the new. The distro is open sourced, though not all apps. Because of this though home brew is pretty strong. It comes with a highly optimzied version of Opera for it, though there's a Minimo port as well. (Firefox is just too heavy for any embedded device.) The players it comes with support quite a bit on their own, from the Wikipedia article..

• Audio: MP3, RealAudio, MPEG-4, AAC, WAV, AMP, MP2
• Image: JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, PNG, Animated GIF, SVG Tiny, ICO
• Video: MPEG-1, MPEG-4, RealVideo, H.263, AVI, 3GP

I've already added a plugin for ogg support to the native audio player. (Which is pretty nice, the desktop (called a homepage - cute Internet themed terminology I suppose) has a net radio player on it by default.)
I've also installed a port of mplayer for anything the packed in video player chokes on.

A few open source games are ported, though naturally controls aren't ideal. I've got a port of NetHack on it and I'll be playing with NES, MAME (Bubble Bobble!), and ScummVM (The Dig!) once I get a bigger memory card. (They're nice enough to pack one with it, but just 64MB.)

Nokia's repository here. http://downloads.maemo.org/

[chedabob]

Sounds pretty sweet. But the lack of GSM support puts me off. If I spent $150 on a mobile device, I'd at least like to be able to phone people when there is no wi-fi available

Looks like my crapola c500 clings on for another year

[neowolf]

Originally Posted by chedabob

Sounds pretty sweet. But the lack of GSM support puts me off. If I spent $150 on a mobile device, I'd at least like to be able to phone people when there is no wi-fi available

Looks like my crapola c500 clings on for another year

Yeah it's no cell replacement. Though you'd likely be hard pressed to find a cellphone alone that could replace it feature wise. (I'm still gawking at the resolution of the screen coming from my Zodiac. 800x420 versus 480x320!)