Interesting to see the promo videos for these three new Nokia Nseries devices now online. Go to Nokia's CES page and click on 'Blog' and then 'Videos'. (Note that the N800 is Linux-based and doesn't include telephony).
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The N800 does however include internet telephony, including official built-in support for Skype. Not really mobile in the sense of working anywhere as you have to be near a wi-fi hotspot, but nice enough to have round the house.
I am interested to know whether the N800 is binary compaible with the 770?
svdwal, I would assume it is. It's the same manufacturer, same OS, same product line... I can't see why not.
The N800 looks essentially the same as the 770, looking at the tech specs. The only changes seem to be a second speaker (making it quite a bit bigger) and a camera (on a stalk, bigger still!). It appears they haven't learned from their mistakes with the 770, namely the weak software suite, which has still not been patched in well by the Maemo community 18 months on.
I always though the 770 hardware was a fantastic bit of kit, but without Palm-like PIM functions and syncing it's not hitting the PDA market.
The N800 is not necessairly binary compatiable. It uses version 3 of Maemo so there be some problems. It is intended to be as compatiable as possiblt though.
You'd think they'd keep it compatible if they want to build up a decent userbase for a niche product like this?
N76 looks damn Neat, seems now that the likes of RAZR, KRZR just got some serious competetion.
Breaking away from the tradition, thankfully this sleek phone has some serious brains inside and its not DUMB like most good looking phones have always been.
Full Marks to Nokia, this one's got to be a Winner.
I am not sure what "binary compatible" means exactly (hey, I am just a humble end user 😊), but I do know that the N800 firmware will not work on the770 (the Maemo site says so somewhere, as well as that 770 is "forward compatible" with N800)
I did look binary compatible up before my previous post actually, cos I didn't know what it meant either. 😊 Apparently it means that files and/or applications from one system will work on another.
Here's the official Maemo OS page about the 770 and 800's compatibility:
http://www.maemo.org/downloads/maemo_3_compatibility.html
"Overall application compatibility between Nokia 770 with OS 2006 and Nokia N800 with OS 2007 is rather good."
"Most applications developed with maemo 2.1 for Nokia 770 will work as such also with Nokia N800 device."
"In some exceptional cases where porting applications from maemo 2.1 to maemo 3.0 is required porting will typically be simple."
I was curious because backwards compatability was never one of the important selling points of phones. It appears that the same attitude is prevalent here for the Linux tablet. I am interpreting the comments as source backwards compatability but not binary (compiled source) compatability. Good for OSS people, probably.