Ari Jaaksi, on his latest post on his blog announces that Nokia has decided to continue with the bug fixing and release of newer ‘Hacker Edition’ firmware for the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. Quim Gil writes on his blog:
We will keep working on the IT OS 2007 Hacker edition for the 770. We will go through IT OS 2006 bugs submitted in maemo’s Bugzilla, trying to solve at least the most relevant and the ones already fixed in the official IT OS 2007. We will release the fixes in updated images, all of them unofficial and to be used at your own risk. We can’t make any promise on performance levels or specific bug fixes, but hopefully you will be happier than now with the results.
Quim Gil also apologizes:
This is our goal, and sometimes we need to rush in order to achieve the milestones in the way. The 770 support while delivering the N800 on time suffered from one of these sprints. A mistake was made, our apologies. We are trying to ammend it and learn from it. Please be patient with this ongoing project, and expect progress from our side around the topics that concern you most.
Links:
Ari Jaaksi’s Blog
Quim Gil’s Blog
Nokia just announced that Orb MyCasting is now available on the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. Orb lets you stream photos, music, video, and TV on a WiFi or Bluetooth phone connection from an always-on PC at home.
You can now download the free PC and N800 software from Orb.
It seems like Intel is announcing later this week their own flavor of internet tablets they are calling MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices). From a presentation document (PDF) Intel has officially released, what we can gather are the following:
- Foundation leverages Gnome Linux Desktop Technology, GTK+, DBUS, GConf
- Intel developed user interface called ‘Master User Interface’
- New Linux distro called RedFlag MIDINUX (v1.0 to be available sometime May)
- Support of the Intel 915 chipsets
- Finger-friendly
- Browser, news reader, IM, VoIP
- Media player, audio recorder, image viewer, camera
- GPS, email, PDF reader, Bluetooth
- 18 second boot time, 3.2 second resume time
From the screenshots, the MIDs look like Maemo with Intel’s customized front-end Master User Interface (MUI), finger freindly, application launcher.
It is not yet clear how far Maemo and RedFlag MIDINUX will inter-operate but you can be sure that both platforms will be covered in Internet Tablet Talk. 
A lot more images after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Intel Mobile Internet Devices Coming’
Just got this from Nokia:
