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Using ultra-mobile Linux with a Nokia Internet Tablet (video)
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CommentsI'm on the go all the time, and sometimes that makes it hard to stay connected. I could carry my laptop with me everywhere, but that can be a pain, especially when I am on my bike. To meet the demands of my daily life I have constructed a lightweight, ultra-portable, Linux-based computing solution. I use a Nokia 770 tethered to a Nokia N75 mobile phone (when Wi-Fi is not available) and a Bluetooth PDA keyboard. This video explains the how and why of the solution.
The video discusses the following:
* Information about the Nokia 770 and its successors, the Nokia N75 mobile phone, and the Nokia SU-8W keyboard.* How to tether the 770 to a mobile phone.
* How to configure the 770 to use a Bluetooth keyboard.
* Practical applications for the solution, such as playing Ogg audio, watching videos, browsing the Internet, and accessing servers remotely with SSH.
* What sets this solution apart from similar systems using devices such as the Apple iPhone.
Ogg Theora (right-click to download)
Chad Files, a software developer and writer, has been developing software applications for more than 10 years, and is a contributing developer to many open source projects.
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Using ultra-mobile Linux with a Nokia Internet Tablet (video)
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 216.162.218.13] on May 14, 2008 05:39 AMvncserver -geometry 800x480.
This makes for a great Nokia 770 vncviewer experience.
Second. I would suggest getting a 2.5" disk USB power/data cable as shown
http://www.xpcgear.com/usbtype2atob.html
With a gender changer as shown
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BSN4UY
and a battery pack as shown
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012S6GP2
you can connect a USB keyboard (Automatically recognized) or a flash memory stick (you must manually mount it) to your Nokia 770.
With a USB adapter a shown
http://www.computercasesandcables.com/ccc/131-0586.html
You can connect a USB 2.5" and the new even smaller 1.8" USB powered drives to your Nokia 770 (you must manually mount it). These drives come in 250GB sizes which allows you to access plenty of music, videos, pictures etc. even while you don't have network access like on an airplane.
The only thing missing for the road warrior is a VGA output for presentations. However is looks like this project
http://xsisusb.garage.maemo.org/
is addressing this as well.
Using ultra-mobile Linux with a Nokia Internet Tablet (video)
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 204.131.165.130] on May 12, 2008 06:56 PMFirst off, installing software is easy, a matter of a couple of clicks, even if it isn't in the repos to begin with. Everything just works, there's no underlying nonsense that you have to bother with, and it looks great. The OS is also creatively executed and original and well-suited to the device.
Computers are heading in this direction - I can play music, watch videos, make calls(videocalls too), surf the net, see maps for a destination, play games, remote into my home computer, read ebooks, generally with most of the functionality of a PC. Way better interface than a cellphone, way more portable than a laptop. The computer starts to reach true potential in this format.
The kicker with all of this is that Nokia's Internet Tablets up to this point have been basically beta's or design studies, so that they can figure out the in's and out's of the devices and the market. They haven't marketed them heavily and haven't focused on mass sales yet. The device I anticipate in the next few years will be the culmination of the previous designs. Amazing stuff.
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