[wplug] Nokia 810 (Was: iPod touch and linux?)

[George Larson]

FWIW, I'm an iPhone guy.  I wanted to take a more FOSS approach but I was
already an AT&T customer and I couldn't find an alternative using a 3G
network in my area.  I didn't know about this Nokia, so I support doing
homework; I am not an undying iPhone advocate.

Disclaimers aside, I *LOVE* my iPhone so much that I bought my wife an iPod
Touch.  My devices are jailbroken and they are not the latest version, so
I'm not up-to-date on the difficulty of breaking those.

I can SSH into my device, turn it into a hotspot, use it as a proxy, serve
pages, FTP.  I have a wiki, PHP, Perl, Python, GCC and much more installed.
If you're not familiar with Macs, it is very much like a tiny Linux box.  It
can scan networks (ARP), scan *for* networks, work as backup storage over
Bluetooth or WIFI, schedule my TiVo to record things, modify MS Office
documents and countless other things.

I'm not skilled with any kind of teeny-tiny keyboard but I have fallen in
love with the OSK, to my surprise.  One reason for this is the fluid
switching between landscape and portrait -- I doubt that's the proper
terminology but I imagine you get me.

IMHO, it's pretty badass.


On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 12:18:46AM -0500, Zachary Uram wrote:
> > Can I run
> > emacs and gcc on it?! Would be awesome to code while sitting on the
> > boring 51C without having to bust out my 17" clunky (but nice!) Dell
> > Inspiron!
>
> I have an n810.
>
> While I'm sure it is *possible* I can barely consider it an easy
> thing.  I've never run emacs on the system directly, but in an ssh
> session on another system, and it's a pain in the neck due to the
> keyboard.  The slide-out keyboard is nice, but really only good for
> writing IMs or email, and I'd only use it for more complex typing in
> an emergency.
>
> That said, it holds its battery life for a LONG time, making it a
> great thing to just keep in your briefcase/bag/whatever for
> entertainment or an emergency terminal.  The GPS software is OK but
> takes a long time to sync with sattelites (compared to what I've seen
> with smart phones which can take advantage of cell towers too.)
>
> I've never tried cross-compiling software for the ARM CPU, so I can't
> comment on that.  There are some third party repos you can add that
> include a LOT of software which might help save on compilation time.
>
> --
> Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
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