I’ve complied OpenEinstein 2007-07 build 48. Current as of today. You can download it below. It’s about 1.8 megs, bzipped. It will expand into a 16 meg file. Feel free to download the binary here. You’ll need this file also: Einstein.rex. The last thing you need of course is a real Newton ROM, so please…
Category Archives: Nokia 770
First non-Apple iPhone App – creeping closer to N770 hackability
The first ever non-apple application has been allegedly run on the iPhone. The people over at the iPhone DevWiki report. Watch out Nokia 770, soon the iPhone will be as hackable as you are! At least, some day it will. This user, Nightwatch is using his own arm toolchain, so this isn’t like we have…
Next Internet Tablet to include Phone?
Nokia must be responding internally to the iPhone mania. The question is, will it be a more advanced smartphone, or a phone enabled internet tablet? Scoble asked around and only got some smiles. Can Nokia really continue to push the Internet Tablet line, sans phone, now that the iPhone has set the bar so high?…
iPhone vs N800 Quick Comparison
Apple iPhone: ARM CPU @ 667mhz [Samsung], 128Mb ram, 8GB Flash Nokia N800: ARM CPU @ 320mhz [TI], 128Mb ram, 256Mb Flash N800 has dual SD cards for more Flash, iPhone has no way to extend the 8Gb. N800 has a bigger screen, higher DPI but doesn’t have the light-touch touch-screen like the iPhone. I’d…
Building Open Einstein
Here are some more detailed instructions on getting Open Einstein built on MacOSX Intel, using the JAM complier and targeting the Nokia 770. I also built it for MacOSX, to run locally on my macbook. The published directions are here, and you should read them first and familiarize yourself with them. Install MacPorts * MacPorts-1.5.0-10.4.dmg…
Open Einstein booting on 770
After some trial and error, and some help from Paul G, I managed to build Open Einstein for both my Intel Mac and for my Nokia 770, using just my Macbook. I followed the directions to build at the Google Code site. I’ll have more explicit directions soon, but the code does build and run…
Nokia 800, N95, iPhone Browser Video Comparison
Update 06/17/07: Here is the link to the original post over at atmaspheric. The blog is worth reading. I found a cool video over at umpcportal.com, filmed by Jonathan Greene. He puts an iPhone, Nokia 800 and the N95 thru their paces while browsing the web. The video is nicely done and well narrated. It…
Newton ARM Emulation Goes Open Source
At the 2007 Worldwide Newton Conference in Tokyo on July 8th, Paul Guyot announced that his most excellent Newton Emulator for ARM, Einstein, was now open source and available immediately on Google Code. His announcement to the NewtonTalk mailing list is worth the read. One improvement that sounds enticing: “the heavy work done these past…
Size of iPhone vs Nokia 770
I took some pictures showing the size difference between the 770 and iPhone. iPhone is really is smaller than you’d first think. Unfortunately, it also has a lower resolution screen than the 770. The zoom feature makes up for that somewhat (see the last picture in this post for an example of a zoom). It…
The Power of Marketing
Posts that contain IPhone per day for the last 30 days: Posts that contain N800 per day for the last 30 days: How about posts that contain Nokia per day for the last 30 days: Amazing. I wonder how much Apple spent on the marketing for iPhone launch? Speaking of the iPhone, I’ve been happily…
ITOS’06 and Screen Shots
Of course I wasted all that time yesterday snapping photos of the new ITOS’06 Beta when the classic Load Applet and Screenshot taker was ported and sitting over in the Maemo Garage. It works fine In 2006. After I took a few shots I realized there was no easy way to get them to my…
Virtual Memory- ITOS 06
It’s all in there this time. Control Panel, Memory, Virtual Tab. Sweet. Extend away…
ITOS 2006 – The Elusive Thumboard
Have you used the thumb-board (T-Board) yet? It’s tricky. The idea is that you use the pressure of your thumb or finger, say, in the chat screen and the T-board will pop up. You put in your line of text, then return to the chat screen. Here is the T-board: You control the pressure to…
ITOS 2006 and IM
So the new IM client on ITOS’06 is really nice. Of course it does Google, and through that Google Talk- but it also seems to be a full featured Jabber client. At my company, we’ve installed our own Jabber server for internal IM. I was able to easily add a new “account” and connect to…
Nokia 2006 Beta
Lots of talk on the net about this- and they are all correct- this beta is amazing. It’s very fast and the the UI enhancements are nice. I’ve taken some screen shots (12) the old fashion way, and I’ll let them do the talking. First, the flasher on OSX worked like a charm: blinky:~ dillera$…
Updated Newton Emulator for 770
Paul Guyot released this email to the NewtonTalk (a Newton list). He had a special showing of his latest build of Einstein Platform 2006 at the Apple store in Ginza. Here is a picture of the participants, Newtons in hand. The 770 build is going to be released shortly– if you have a Zaurus, you…
FBreader- Holding the 770
Update on ebook reading with the 770: Adam Wolf kindly alerted me to his page where you can clearly see what I am talking about in terms of the haptics involved with reading on the 770. Thanks Adam for taking those shots. This is where the size of the 770 clearly comes into play. Any…
InfoLinks for Google & Nokia Announcement
Is the new Nokia Internet Tablet device is coming out next Tuesday? More news about the Google Talk & Nokia collaboration: SeattlePI CNN Money Daily Tech Not any real new info- just that a new Tablet is coming out, with Google Talk as the VOIP software. The announcement is Tuesday- who knows if the device…
700 Ebooks and FBreader – Missing the Point
So I was fighting with FBreader for a long time, and not understanding why it was so great- until I realized a few basic things, which I’ll pass along– in case you haven’t been using it for all your reading lately. Rotate the screen 90 deg Go full-screen Use the rocker button, which is now…
Google Trends and the 770
So Google trends is now live– with it you can compare all sorts of things, like how the UMPC (remember Origami?) could turn out to be just a flash in the pan as the reviews of the first devices (just the Samsung for now) are rolling in– and almost all of them are dismal. …
My.Opera.Com – free portal for your 770
Want a really excellent web experience with your 770? Want 300 free megs to host your blog, pictures, email and probably more? Check out http://my.opera.com. You can sign up for a free account and get all that stuff- plus it looks perfect and feels responsive using the Opera Mobile Browser on the 770. It should…
New Browser in next release of Internet Tablet Software?
I have no evidence for this, other than my own investigations, but could Nokia be planning to replace the Opera Mobile browser that is currently included in the Internet Tablet Software (i.e. the 770’s Linux OS) with their in-house S60 browser (here is the official Nokia page), which is based on Apple’s own WebCore (Apple’s…
Don’t tell me this isn’t aimed at the 770
Leaked picture of the Origami Device? Look at those buttons- they even have the same zoom button as the 770 (but the zoom is lower left instead of upper right). You can’t tell me that a device like this isn’t isn’t going to stomp all over the nascent Internet Tablet space… No word if this…
770 Review – Computerworld
Computerworld gave a positive review of the Nokia 770. “Nokia’s 770 Internet Tablet: Smart and Sleek The stylish wireless device is aimed at the home market but has enterprise potential”…
The Nokia 880?
Word out there is that Nokia already has the next device in their Internet Tablet Platform. Lets take a guess at its next CPU. For all the talk about what the 770 can do, given better software, and or RAM, the CPU was designed for a mobile phone, not a Internet Tablet. The CPU inside…