The use-case video demos how the python based noBounds app runs on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet.
Read the full email we got from noBounds innovator and Project Manager, Bernd Steinke after the jump.
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Quim Gil was kind enough to upload Dr. Ari Jaaki’s talk yesterday at OSiM on “What Mobile Users Need and How Open Source Can Help.” Ari discusses integration of open source end-users and communities, business opportunities, difficulties, upstream projects, and even mentions internet tablet ‘horror stories’/mistakes on the Mozilla browser and the email app. Listen to the podcast now:
If you have questions on Ari’s talk, ask them at Quim’s Blog.
Yesterday’s big news was Nokia’s $153M acquisition of Trolltech, makers of the Qtopia framework and the Qt platform. Some of you might have heard of the Qtopia Mobile Phone, or the Sony Mylo, or Skype, or Google Earth, or Adobe Photoshop Album, or the Nokia PC Suite — one thing common about them is that they are ‘Trolltech Inside.’
A lot of discussion brewed from this move from Nokia. A hefty discussion brewed at itT and posting the same question at the Maemo Developers List received some interesting responses worthy of a ‘free software opera’ as Quim Gil, Nokia Development Platform Product Manager puts it.
Quim, as most of us know from Maemo.org, has just posted a new entry on his blog to hopefully put some perspective on Trolltech and Maemo. Here are some snippets:
…I made some research to confirm the guess. When it comes to maemo, there are no Trolltech/Qt related plans at the moment.
On the mid term… well, nobody knows. What follows are my thoughts today.
Trolltech develops Qt, a cross-platform application development framework that powers KDE and is also licensed to many commercial software projects. Nokia pushes the Symbian OS with several own platforms on top like S60, plus S40 running on top of Nokia OS, plus several non-mobile applications like Nokia PC Suite (developed with Qt, by the way). Trolltech’s toolkit and its C++ native language (which is native in Symbian as well) fit very well in Nokia’s short term strategy to improve cross-compatibility between the Symbian platforms. If making a good use of the Qt library helps having in maemo some of the cool stuff available in S60, all the better then.
Thanks for taking time explaining things Quim!
Previously released on OS2007 as beta, Nokia just announced Video Center’s official release for OS2008. Video Center lets you subscribe, download, stream, and manage video from feeds and gives you the option to store them on your Internet Tablet for later viewing.
Video Center is currently configured to support video feeds from PodShow and Rocketboom with other official feeds to be added in the future. You can add your own video feeds however, as long as they are in RSS 2.0, XMLTV, or SPF format.
Links: Video Center Garage, Install Video Center OS2008
Official screenshots after the jump.
Here’s more proof of the upcoming WiMAX enabled Internet Tablet. It seems like Nokia is currently working with Alvartion Ltd., Cisco, and Mocano Telecom on establishing a Center of Excellence on WiMAX aiming to provide consumers VoIP, streaming video, and an always on-line experience. Alvarion is bringing in their 4Motion Open WiMAX solution, Cisco is providing seamless WiMAX mobile integration via their Broadband Wireless Gateway, Nokia is bringing in a WiMAX 2.5GHz compatible Internet Tablet, and Monaco Telecom is experimenting on the solution at Tunisia.
According to Ari Virtanen, Vice President, Convergence Products at Nokia:
Working with Alvarion, Cisco and Monaco Telecom is a great step towards making Mobile WiMAX available for consumers and fits perfectly with our strategy of offering a broad and innovative portfolio of devices.
In the US, WiMAX will be via Sprint’s XOHM.
Expect the new internet tablet sometime April - May.
ThoughtFix of TabletBlog has just posted his CES 2008 interview with Victor Brilon, Sr. Product Manager, Home Networking Solutions, Convergence Products (yup, you’ve heard of him before). Here’s an excerpt:
I think we’re doing a good job initially appealing to what I call in a very loving way the “Alpha Geek.” These are the people who understand gadgets and the needs they fill. They’re the people whose family calls them and asks which digital camera they should buy. I think we got a lot of those people excited about the Internet Tablet. I think we’re doing a good job of moving the Internet Tablet in the Consumer Space. I’m not going to lie to you and say the Internet Tablet is something my mother will buy, but the N810 is something my wife (who is not technology focused) will use.
Found this table at Forum Nokia:
Nokia just released images of the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet ahead of the scheduled announcement later today. We should get the actual specifications later for sure but for now, enjoy the eight Nokia N810 product images directly from Nokia.
FYI, a new forum for Nokia N810 has been created. We also started a thread to post your Nokia N810 questions that we can ask the Nokia folks later today — we suggest you post your questions ASAP. BTW, there is a big chance that the itT servers will be crashing because of big tech and gadget sites linking in. Just in case, you can’t access the site later, post you questions over at the Jaiku itT channel.
Thanks sachin007!
Nokia announced today that it intends to acquire NAVTEQ for $8.1 billion. NAVTEQ is a leading provider of navigation maps commonly seen in mobile navigation devices from Garmin as well as on-board automobile navigation systems found in Audis, BMWs, Mercedes-Benzs, Jaguars, Porsches, and Volvos, to name a few.
I like this move from Nokia. Garmin is one of the biggest clients of Navteq and at least in the US, Garmin navigation devices have the best maps. This would mean the same Garmin-quality compressed maps for Nokia devices.
Can we infer that the next Internet Tablet will have a built-in GPS and navigation functionality?
FYI, the current Nokia N800 Navigation Kit uses maps from both Navteq and Tele Atlas, packaged by Navicore.
I decided to create a series of videos to show the new features of the new Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. There are five short videos in total:
1. What’s inside the box
2. Physical design
3. Comparing it with the Nokia 770
4. Software demo
5. Browser and MediaStreamer demo
View all the videos after the jump.
