Nokia gadgets

My work is related to many kinds of gadgets and on the daily basis I use them often one of them is the Nokia Internet Tablet

Nokia 770

It was the first Internet touch screen Tablet in the market created by Nokia after a sucessfull development of Smart Phones since the first Nokia comunicator came generation over an over, my favorites were Nokia 9500, 9300i.

Nokia 770 is based on purely open source Nokia Internet Tablet 2005 2006 / Maemo this opened the door for fhurther development like Nokia N800 , the successor to the Nokia 770 and the Nokia N810 tablets which are powerfull PDA internet WLAn tablets and the best of it is 100% Open source Linux (debian) based which makes itself a jewel due the potential you can squeeze of it .

The display a 800x480 touch screen, 16-bit color was fair enough large for displaying a small desktop based on Qt, the Processor a 250MHz TI 1710 OMAP (ARM-based) was fast enough in its dates to be fair and its memory 128MB internal flash (64MB available to the user), 64MB via includedRS-MMC card was just enough to get lots of apps in a multitasking enviroment with a Bluetoot and wireless connectivity and support for audio MP3, MPEG4, AAC, WAV, AMR, MP2 and video formats MPEG1, MPEG4, Real Video, H.263, AVI, 3GP, In 2005 was a hackers dream machine.

I Added a 1GB memory card to the standard Nokia 770 package and used long time as voip Phone.

In 2006, Nokia released the Navigation Kit for Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. With a Bluetooth-based GPS receiver Navicore Maps, and extended it more, while community development grow at maemo.org and applications were ported more and more. sites like Internet Tablet Talk appeared and a comunity of developers started to create own repositories and portings on Maemo Garage.

With the community support then Nokia integrated more applications and expanded horizons and created Nokia N900 on Maemo 5 Os and started to a joint program named Meego OS which allowed the Nokia N950 creation based on maemo but planned not for Arm processors but also to pentium based. Meego was the door to open an opens source ecosystem to TV's and protable devices with multiconnectivity and integration.

Development leap

While Android was not even in development Maemo was already on its version 2008 and evolving to Meego, Apple started to wanting to compeete against Nokia N900 and N8

While Apple even thought of Ipone Nokia already had integrated and patented all integrated technologies, Nokia Strugling to get in to American market was in Europe, Asia and africa already dominant producing around 1.5 mill phones all over the world daily.

I still Agree Steve Jobs was good at selling and marketing as well as lobber making difficult Nokia to get in to American market with protectionist laws, while Nokia devices were bounded to a warranty of 2 years, and Nokia Careline centers around de globe as well as effective device recicling,

And americans proud to tell the world its wonders but Ipad was not the firs Tablet, Neither Iphone the first touch Smart Phone. Neither Android the first Open source Mobile OS

I feel proud to say that Nokia as Finish company invested on reasearch and development and put on a challenge on development to everyone, I can say I'd been part of that working on many related projects. I stil have my Nokia Internet Tablet N770 as a Media server at home with some hacks 24/7, My Nokia N900 and well reluctantly moved to Lumia world...

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Swipe

While Ui on Iphone started to copycat concepting Nokia started to brand already existin concepts (I suspect on afraid that Iphone claims the concept as own ) So new versions of ui concept were named Swipe and N9 Phones were branded as Swipe http://swipe.nokia.com/

Swipe concept multi tasking Windows and double tapping as many other features added to touch gestures