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Nokia 770: Linux in the palm of your hand.

some time looking for a handheld that would allow me to do things with other handheld I could absolutely do that and had good prospects for future development. After so much

wait, the choice fell on the Nokia 770 . In addition to having faith in Nokia years now for its great products, this handheld had a good reason in piu '(at least for me) to be purchased: the fact of being based entirely on Linux and to be completely open source (ok.. except the driver's handwriting recognition).

The N770, while being manufactured by Nokia (which usually are used to bind to cell phones), not a phone but a mini tablet that allows you to surf the internet, chat, read email, make calls, VOIP , watch videos, play MP3s and listen to streaming radio (including Shoutcast), and then turn most of the applications linux / gtk.

connectivity is one of the strengths of this device: it incorporates both the fact that the Bluetooth wireless network card 802.11 b / g. Connection procedures have also been made so simple to be very intuitive and quick use.

As mentioned above, the strength of this handheld is definitely the operating system: Linux. More than 'just is a version called Ad-hoc Maemo and derived from Debian . Maemo, as well as being developed and supported by Nokia, can 'count on a large community of users and geeks who are contributing on a daily basis to development of new applications or porting existing ones for Linux.

The graphical interface of the Nokia 770 is based on the GTK libraries and is called Hildon. Applications are developed in C or in Python. There are of course also the porting of other development languages, such as Mono / C #, Perl, SmallBasic and others.

E 'available to developers a true development kit that even includes an emulator that allows you to test applications on your PC before you test them on your handheld, allowing you to compile for armel and i386.

Soon I will post (also on this page) a tutorial in Italian explaining step by step how to install and configure the Maemo development environment on your PC.

is in my opinion an excellent platform to develop applications. The recent release of the Nokia 800 (the successor to the 770) bodes well for future projects that Nokia has in mind. We only hope that this is a trend of the moment but instead wants to demonstrate the power and convenience in producing a device based on open source software.