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Author: LarryLarry Date: Feb 11, 2008 10:19
http://www.nokia.com/betalabs
My N800 Linux internet tablet is my first Nokia device. It's not a
Sellphone, but it hooks to a Sellphone. My next Sellphone will be a Nokia,
just because of how Nokia treats its tablet customers...open source, not
locked down like products beginning with i. Have any of you reading this
group played much with the Nokia Betalabs toys available for download from
the Betalabs website? Looks great fun for compatible phones.
N800 is simply awesome. Don't hesitate to get one.....
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Author: Kevin T. NeelyKevin T. Neely Date: Feb 13, 2008 15:10
On 2008-02-11, Larry home.com> wrote:> http://www.nokia.com/betalabs
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> My N800 Linux internet tablet is my first Nokia device. It's not a
> Sellphone, but it hooks to a Sellphone. My next Sellphone will be a Nokia,
Reading/replying to this using my own Nokia tablet. Haven't checked
out betalabs for some time, but I go to https://garage.maemo.org quite
often to get apps for my tablet.
"PCphone" on betalabs looks interesting. Too bad it's windows-only.
The tablet is great, and I joined this group because I recently got an N75 to
go with the device. Haven't really plumbed the depths of that phone,
but I have had a good time with it.
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Author: Kevin T. NeelyKevin T. Neely Date: Feb 14, 2008 09:37
On 2008-02-14, Larry home.com> wrote:> "Kevin T. Neely" astroturfgarden.com> wrote in
> Gamestop has a great hard carrying case for the tablet for $10. It's made
> for the Sony PSP, which is about the same size as the N800. If you cut out
> the internal flap to carry games, and leave out the velcro extra board,
Nintendo DS cases work well, too. I picked up a padded "wallet" style
one that fits my keyboard and my 770. Since i have the 770, OS2007HE
is as far as I can go on the operating system. Plus, the 770 has its
own hard case that is nice for the times when I don't want to carry
the keyboard and everything.
Did I mention this already? ScummVM is perhaps the coolest
application available for games, provided you have those old LucasArts
games available. I ran Doom on the tablet, too, when I first got it.
That was a fun blast from the past.
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Author: LarryLarry Date: Feb 14, 2008 11:31
> Did I mention this already? ScummVM is perhaps the coolest
> application available for games, provided you have those old LucasArts
> games available. I ran Doom on the tablet, too, when I first got it.
> That was a fun blast from the past.
>
I rate ScummVM as the most frustrating application....(c;
I'm 62 and my reaction times are in the dumper. At LEAST they could let an
old man win once in a while and have some PITY on us! But, your are right,
it's one really cool app and loads of fun to play.
Using rdesktop back to the house on a free wifi at a pizza shop, I had one
iPhone owner convinced it would also run Windoze XP under Linux. I paid my
cable company for premium service so I could have lots more upload
bandwidth so the desktop looks quite real on the tablet. "See here, it
even runs Google Earth!", I told the astonished iPhone user showing me the
fish floating around from his accelerometer positions. Google booted and I
put in the location we were in, of course going right to the parking lot.
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Author: Kevin T. NeelyKevin T. Neely Date: Feb 14, 2008 15:49
On 2008-02-14, Larry home.com> wrote:> "Kevin T. Neely" astroturfgarden.com> wrote in
> bandwidth so the desktop looks quite real on the tablet. "See here, it
> even runs Google Earth!", I told the astonished iPhone user showing me the
That's pretty darn funny. However, for real-world coolness sans
trickery, the built-in GPS + loaded maps on the tablet is pretty
nice. 810 only, which I don't have, but I do lust after it.
The N95 can do that too, of course.
I also like to take pictures and videos with my N75, then transfer it
to the tablet via bluetooth and display them there. The bigger screen
was nice for my relatives over the holidays to see the pics we'd just
taken. I was like "you mean you're camera can't do this?"
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