Nokia N800 Internet Tablet PC

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:45:14AM -0400, Stan Witkowski wrote:
> I bought my Nokia N800 from Nokia Canada (nokia.ca).
> CDN $470 + tax + shipping (around $7) several weeks ago.
> Ordered it online on a Wednesday, got it delivered to my door
> two days later on Friday morning.
> 
> It runs Linux, and is slightly smaller than a paperback.
> Also has an FM radio tuner, MP3 and video player + web cam built in.
> It uses two SD cards for storage. Presently limited to
> two * 4GB cards, but future OS upgrades are expected to allow the
> use of higher capacity SDHC cards. ie 2 * 8GB, 2 * 16GB, etc.
> 
> I have:
>   - reflashed the OS to the latest version
>   - gotten the WI-FI and Bluetooth working
>   - downloaded what few applications are curently available for it
> 
> I'd REALLY like to develop stock market charting software for it
> (100% of the reason for buying it), but finding software
> development info has been a complete pain. Bit and pieces are
> all over the map. (If you can help me, please email ASAP! Thanks!)
> (Item: I want to do development on a Windows XP Pro SP2 laptop.)

Well I would think development for linux is easiest under linux.  Of
course I believe development under anything other than windows is always
easier.

Of course you would be cross compiling no matter what, so it may not
make that much of a difference.

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Len Sorensen
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