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Nokia N800 – ReaderMini

In my initial post about ReaderMini, I only described the experience. Now you can see it in action and (hopefully) appreciate how good the experience really is on the Nokia Internet Tablet. Personally, I find it to be very close to the way I read feeds on desktop, which is amazing considering it’s happening on a pretty small handheld device.

Since the initial launch, ReaderMini has continued to actively evolve through user feedback for both bugs and improvements. The roadmap is looks strong and I believe this will continue to be a killer app for the Internet Tablet. If you use Google Reader on the desktop, you need to be using ReaderMini on the Nokia.

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Nokia N800 – Maemo Mapper

I had posted a screenshot of Maemo Mapper earlier this week, but thought it might be quite a bit more interesting to see it in action. I was successful in configuring three different map sources – Google Maps (Streets and Satellite), Virtual Earth (Streets and Satellite) and Terraserver. There are differences between all of them:

  • Terraserver only provides topographical information
  • Google Maps seems more up to date than
  • Virtual Earth which seems to have the simplest and easiest to read map

I’ve used both cellular data (EDGE) from my Nokia N73 and home wifi connection to download maps and use the Nokia LD-1W GPS, which is very small and easily fits in a pocket. You can capture full tracks and export as well as import .GPX files which is cool so you can share trip data with other applications like Google Earth or import POIs from Geo Caching sites.

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Maemo 2.2

If you are developing for the Nokia 770 or want to start, the latest environment was just released:

The maemo team proudly announce the newest development environment for Nokia 770 Internet Tablets: maemo 2.2 ‘gregale’. This release supports development for the latest OS 2006 Software Edition. Maemo 2.2 is based on the latest Scratchbox Apophis R4 cross-compilation environment.

For installation instructions please see the tutorial:
http://www.maemo.org/platform/docs/tutorials/Maemo_tutorial.html

More info on the release:
http://maemo.org/downloads/releases.html#maemo22
http://repository.maemo.org/stable/2.2/Maemo_Dev_Platform_v2.2_relnotes.txt

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Wired News: Steal This Download

This sounds like a great read… and is formated beautifully for small ebook readers like the Nokia N800. I’m sure it looks great at full screen and printed out as well.

Investigative reporter Kim Zetter spent a year probing the life of David Thomas, a high-tech grifter who became an FBI asset.

In interviews with Thomas, his girlfriend, his associates in the underground and federal agents on the cybercrime beat, Zetter pieced together the strange world of the “boards,” online bazaars where crooks and swindlers work together to scam everyone else.

Now Wired News is pleased to present Zetter’s probative three-part series as a readable, printable 25-page PDF file. Download it (.pdf). Print it. Read it. The text is justified, but the crimes aren’t. [Wired News]

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N800 pairs with Bluetooth headsets

Dan, aka ThoughtFix successfully paired a bluetooth headset to his N800 I did the same and found that while it shows up and seems ready to connect, there’s nothing yet in the system that seems to recognize the new audio device.

N800 Paired Devices
If the device is smart enough to know that the bluetooth device is capable of doing audio, you might get the feeling that something good is coming. We do have Skype and Rhapsody on deck for February… I’d be stunned if the N800 handled A2DP, but very content to do VOIP over Bluetooth.

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doc Reader lets you handle Word docs on your N800 / N770

doc Reader is a graphic utility that lets you read MS Word documents in your Nokia 770 or export them to text or PDF format. [Maemo garage]

I just gave this a try and while it does not open your file directly as a .doc, you can instantly view or convert to text as well as convert to PDF. I chose PDF for my test and it worked beautifully — as though I had printed to PDF from within MS Word on my desktop!

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