Nokia 770 Internet Tablet (type SU-18) is first of a set of mobile Linux computers of the company Nokia. It is equipped with Bluetooth 1,2 and WLAN (802.11b/g) and thus primarily for mobile Internet use intended. For this the equipment has software for E-Mail processing, a RSS as well as pdf reader, audio, picture and video applications. Contrary to other portable Linux devices, a complete Linux distribution and no restrictive "“embedded"” - variant are used, therefore the equipment is acted as unofficial Zaurus successors.

Nokia 770 became to 25. May 2005 on the LinuxWorld Summit in New York von Nokia presented. An introduction on the market was originally for the third quarter planned and even after Nokia increased the production capacities several times, gave it according to the actual publication date (1 November 2005) over several months a longer delivery time than 4 weeks. Nokia receives on-line Vorbestellungen to a recommended selling price of 349 "€ to 369 "€ in Great Britain), in the USA exists a selling partnership with CompUSA.

Target group

Since the equipment does not have direct competition according to analysts, it is more successful as niche product, than Nokia expected. It does not stand in competition to Microsoft and Intels Ultra mobile PC, since these are settled in a very much higher price segment more largely and.

According to Dr. Ari Jaaksi (of Nokia open of SOURCE representatives) is the device class those Nokia 770 marks out, in the comparison to the PC like mobile phone in the comparison to the traditional stationary telephone. He sees a crucial advantage of the equipment in the fact that it is not a complete mobile telephone, and with this, which can be exchanged independently of the N770, perfectly complements itself.

Developer program

Nokia was offered to 500 software developers as can be prove for the open the SOURCE community began to buy the possibility the equipment before the official sales start at the price of 99 "€ in order to develop software for it. Nokia donated the incomes from this sales directly to the GNOMES Foundation.

Hardware

In Nokia 770 is an ARM OMAP 1710-Prozessor with approx. 220 MHz of the company Texas Instruments, as well as a R-S-MMC-card location. It has 64 MT RAM, as well as an internal Flash memory of 128 MT, by which about half for the user is freely usable. The Touchscreen display (4.13 diagonal) possesses a dissolution of pixels, which is very highly soluble due to the small crest factor (141 mm 79 mm 19 mm) (225 pixels per tariff). To the Multimedia expenditure a DSP processor is blocked, which is headed for by means of GStreamer. In addition the equipment beside a power connection offers a mini USB socket, 3.5 mm Stereo mini handle socket to the audio expenditure, as well as an inserted microphone. The equipment weighs 185 g, with overhead panel 230 G.

According to of Nokia data the equipment with full Akku can be operated 3 hour when active (WLAN) use or 7 days in the Standby mode. From the Standby mode one arrives in few seconds into the normal operating mode ("“Instant on"”). Experiences show however a clearly longer running time.

Software

The special to Nokia 770 is to a large extent free firmware Internet Tablet OS 2005 edition, which is based on the complete distribution of the Debian of GNU/Linux project. Here the technologies X11, the GTK+ and D-BUS are used. As central approach place for the firmware development Nokia brought the Maemo project into being, which represents the official developer platform for the software and to developers with documentations and supplies all other Entwicklungstools.

Nokia took and pays open in the apron of the development several SOURCE developers under contract it for the work on its own projects. Many of the advancements at the different projects were transferred also to the origin versions of the respective software.

Already are more than hundreds admitted open SOURCE programs on Nokia 770 portiert, which becomes very simple, since Nokia sets SOURCE surrounding field on established standards in the open. Among other things of third so far the complete text processing software AbiWord, the spread-sheet analysis Gnumeric were portiert. Attention excited the successful Portierung of Doom 1 on the equipment. It exists to software for government inspection department navigation, Ebook reader, PIM administration as well as a text ton Speech program.

Vorinstalliert is on the N770 beside free software also the Opera Browser, which are based video Player on Reals of the Helix engines, bought to go with by Nokia, as well as the assigned handwriting recognition.

Future

Nokia announced already before the appearance of the equipment to offer both VoIP and Instant Messaging for the equipment. This firmware (Internet Tablet OS 2006 edition/Maemo 2,0) will be available in June 2006 for owners Nokia 770 to the free Download, as well as on again delivered Tablets to be before-installed. In and/or VoIP feature is based on the free standard XMPP/Jabber and/or its extension "“Jingle"” and by Google talc is gesponsert. The equipment is in addition SIP to support, so that it becomes a complete Internet telephone.

Within the yearly 2006 Nokia wants in addition the software of the Gizmo of project on its equipment portieren.

A successor Nokia 770 by Nokia was confirmed, was not announced concretely although yet.

Related links

• Official product side to 770 with Nokia Germany
• Internet tray alkene (Communityseite to Nokia 770) (English)

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