Posts tagged Maemo

Bought another Nokia 770. Upgraded both to the IT2006 software version. One will make a nice e-book reader for my mother. Wow, OS2006 is a big improvement! Spent the whole day installing various software packages and playing with them. Xchat is now usable (wifi connection loss bug seems to be gone), PDF reader is much faster, application menus are configurable, apt-get rules. The audio player wants to get online for obscure reasons when I just want to listen to some mp3 from my playlist.

Nokia 770 + a random Bluetooth GPS + Maemo Mapper + Google Maps = fun. Nokia 770 and NaviLock BT-308 GPS The fun part consisted of Patching Maemo Mapper so that it can use Google satellite map pictures. Banging my head against the wall trying to understand why Maemo Mapper won't talk to the GPS today, when it worked perfectly yesterday. Googling for BT-308 protocol descriptions. Discovering that BT-308 speaks two protocols: NMEA-0138 text protocol and SiRF binary protocol.

I've been playing with my Nokia 770 for a couple of days now. SSH server on the 770 rules -- I can now access the filesystem using Midnight Commander's Shell Link, or GNOME VFS. Not to mention looking around in the filesystem, editing .profile with a convenient keyboard, etc. The ability to mount NFS shares directly on the 770 rules. I only wish the video player could play any of the random video clips that I try throwing at it.

Yesterday I received my Nokia 770. First impression: the device has great potential, and is a nice hacker toy (woohoo, Linux!), but it is not ready to replace my PDA (Tungsten T). Palm makes everything it can do more convenient. Of course, my Palm doesn't have 802.11b/g, nor a good web browser... Essential software: CPU/RAM usage applet, clock applet, FBReader. Nice to have: XTerm, OpenSSH client, Midnight Commander, VIM (not available right now, waah!