The need to incorporate a camera into an Internet Tablet seemed off-base to me. If Nokia expects the PIM applications to be in the cellphone and hence inutile in the Nokia 770, surely the same logic applies to a camera. But the new Nokia 870 (?) Internet Tablet seems clearly to have a camera.
Reading Engadget today, however, I see the camera referred to as a webcam, and it all makes sense now. A built-in webcam is definitely walkaround web. That’s just where the Internet Tablet fits.
— Roger Sperberg
DotReader from Osoft has entered the public beta stage. You can download Windows and Linux versions. This is an open-source ebook reader (source code here), written in Perl with the wxWidgets GUI.
I’m partial to FBReader, but I really like the idea of another Linux ebook reader.
I’ll report back what I learn about dotReader as I work with it. My question to the Nokia 770 community is whether dotReader’s use of wxWidgets might make it an unfriendly or large application on the 770.
— Roger Sperberg
Marcelo Eduardo de Oliveira (aka handful) of
iNdT sent us a quick note about the upcoming media player app for the Internet Tablet called
Canola.Canola aims to take advantage of the Nokia Internet Tablet’s 800×480 pixel touch-screen and give the users a stylus-free way to view and play multimedia files locally stored on the tablet, as well as wirelessly from a networked computer, or via the internet.
Marcelo has released a video of Canola at You Tube showing the early screen designs. Be sure to reply with your comments and suggestions as the iNdT team will be reading this thread!
The first beta version will be released by this month.
Watch the video at You Tube.
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