Mobile Offline-Variante der Wikipedia massiv erweitert - it is now 870 MB in size. Somehow, this scares me, as we are already hitting the limit with the 1 GB memory card in mobile devices. Hey, for my Nokia Tablet I only have 512 MB on the memory card! (well, with that I can always search online)
HolisTech Limited Free Software, pwsafe - Password-Safe for the Nokia Tablet.
HOWTO: Bluetooth GPS and GPSDrive on the Nokia 770 - because someone recently told me that the Nokia 770 is useless without a navigation system: here it is.
Internet Tablet Talk - Gnumeric 1.6.2 Released - Spreadsheet for the Nokia 770 Tablet. Wow.
Mandelbrot Set - Labix - Example source code that draws little apples with PyGame on the Nokia Tablet.
Well, here it is. Very nice piece - since Tuesday I have it. It's really fun - the integration of Bluetooth and WLAN is quite well done, the device can connect with any WLAN. Even WPA and WPA2 - both also with certificate - work. When pairing with Bluetooth phones, it is a bit stubborn and picky, but with some persistence it also worked with my Motorola E398.
The installed software is quite usable - the browser is a stripped-down Opera, very user-friendly and quite complete in its support of HTML, CSS and JS. However, it lacks some of the nice features of Opera for the desktop - especially it does not save passwords that you have entered. Which is rather inconvenient for a device without a keyboard, if you have to enter passwords again and again.
The hardware itself is well made - lies nicely in the hand, is significantly smaller than I would have expected and you can tell that the manufacturer has experience with small devices. However, they could have given the tablet a scroll wheel so that you don't always have to take the pen and the touchscreen to scroll through web pages. The cursor keys jump from link to link on the page, so they are not directly usable for normal browsing. With touchscreens I am always a bit skeptical about long-term usability - many of them have defects and calibration problems (with heavy use rather earlier than later) sooner or later.
The possibility to add more software is of course great - especially very easy to solve. You simply click on a Debian package and it installs it. Games, tools, applications - there is already quite a lot. Even a complete Python port with all libraries for on-board development of Python programs with GUI for the tablet is available. However, you should probably get a Bluetooth keyboard for this - this funny fabric keyboard might be quite interesting for this.
Well, the next version of the software should also support VOIP and IM - this could become even more interesting if you combine it with a Bluetooth headset, this could be quite a practical device for telephony as well - at least if a free WLAN hotspot is available.
It could be that I will now start writing an organizer software with Django - because then I could access it everywhere via the device and also use it from normal computers. Probably more practical in the long run than all these not really functioning synchronization solutions.
ApplicationCatalog - Maemo Wiki - Applications for the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
ThoughtFix on the Nokia 770: USB Power Injector 2 - external battery pack for the Nokia tablet - also usable for other devices with USB powering (iPod etc.). For DIY.
PythonForMaemo - Python for Maemo - Using Python on the Nokia 770 Tablet (the shipping confirmation arrived today, hopefully the device will arrive soon).
Opera Mini: Free HTML browser for mobile phones launches worldwide - Golem.de - definitely better than the primitive built-in browsers. However, of course - due to Java - not necessarily the fastest.
PuTTY for Symbian OS - ssh client for Symbian devices - also Nokia stuff.
WAP, Internet & Multimedia Messaging (MMS) Settings Network Providers Germany - Telefon-Treff - Settings for GPRS for various mobile networks. However, the user must use web/web - otherwise it doesn't work from my PDA. What still doesn't work is MidSSH directly on the phone.
Sony exits the PDA business completely - and that despite having the Clie PEG TH-55, which is pretty much the ultimate Palm OS device ...
My mobile phone contract was about to end again and T-Mobile was eager to get me to extend it. So they threw phones at me. A Motorola E398 is what I ended up with - hey, my most modern phone was a Nokia 6110 and Jutta grabbed that one so I was left with just the S3 Com if I didn't want to use my work phone ...
Well, the E398 is nice - it has everything you can imagine. And a bit more. If you want to know the technical specs, Motorola will happily tell you. I'm really only interested in one thing about all this fuss: Apple can exchange data with the phone and use it as a modem, but iSync only synchronizes with it via cable. Why must everything in the mobile phone environment always be completely illogical, complicated and confusing?
Oh yes, and the fact that the Motorola manual contains a lot of text but explains nothing in many parts, I don't need to mention separately. The documentation of all the options you can set is crammed in there: these options are listed again in the manual. And named. And that's it. No explanation whatsoever of what exactly you're supposed to enter there and where you'd get the information. And of course everyone immediately knows what to make of APN, IMPS, etc. Just like you naturally know straight away which IM technology the IM client uses when it doesn't say anywhere. Only with Google's help was I able to figure some things out.
Mobile phones are stupid.
mo:Blog is something I should take another look at after switching to WordPress, it could be even more interesting now. Especially since it should integrate better. Maybe I'll finally start moblogging before that trend becomes outdated ...
Update: So my initial experiments have been quite positive. What still bothers me is the fact that an HTTP timeout occurs at the end of an image upload. But if you browse through the menus a bit, you can actually find all the necessary settings. Somewhat spartan interface, but it is a Palm after all.
What I don't like at all though: the timeout doesn't go away even with corresponding configuration changes. And occasionally the program crashes my Clie. I didn't experience that a single time in all that time, I only had two system hangs with mo:Blog. And that in turn is a reason not to like the software ...
Backlight-Kits für HP Handhelds | backlight4you.com - Retrofittable backlighting for HP 200 LX
DOS Palmtops - Memory cards, updates and software for the HP 200 LX
GEM for HP200LX - Running GEM on the HP 200 LX
HP 100LX/200LX Technical Information - Technical information about the HP 200 LX - including repair guides and open devices
Infrared communication with the palmtop HP 200LX - Switch HP 200 LX to IRDA
MindMap/LX - MM/LX - Complete mind mapper on the HP 200 LX - Freeware
The S.U.P.E.R. Site by Category - Downloads for the HP 200 LX
WWW/LX - the Internet Solution in Your Pocket! - Complete Internet stack and client package for the HP 200 LX
LX2Palm - Exchange notes between HP 200 LX and Palm via infrared
Palmtop Information Central - All possible links to the HP 200 LX
The HP Palmtop Paper Online - Shop around the HP DOS Palmtops - even tuned versions are available there
The HP200LX TCP/IP Suite Home Page - A TCP/IP stack and utilities from freeware for the HP 200 LX
The Mysterious Web Page of Dr. Dubs - Minix on the HP 200 LX DOS Palmtop
The PAL Page - Programming applications with native look and feel for the HP 200 LX
TuxMobil: UniX on the HP200LX Palmtop - Even more information about Minix on the HP 200 LX
TimeCopy Conduit - Synchronize time and date (as well as time zone and daylight saving time/standard time) on the Palm from the Mac desktop
LispMe Homepage - Lisp for the Palm - also for Palm OS 5
smittyware.com - upIRC - IRC Client for Palm OS® - IRC Client for Palm OS