Alex.albieo@gmail.com wrote in news:fc54d2f9-888b-474f-949f-
b94e25fda53c@i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com:

> As the Internet goes mobile and companies like Apple and Google find
> cool ways to embrace the trend, the mobile market leader is rewriting
> its product development rulebook. Instead of working in secrecy and
> isolation, it wants to start sharing.
>
>

Wanna see what happens when Nokia does this? Take a little cruise to
the Nokia Internet Tablet's hacker website:
http://garage.maemo.org/
Maemo is the tablet's version of Debian Linux, the open source operating
system, also without all the secrecy and deceit.
www.maemo.org is the USER webpages on the other end of the Maemo
"Campus" for those not interested in the OS, just the cool software that
the boys back in the "garage" tinkering around under the hood come up
with....and it's quite a list!

Tonight, there are 557 software projects in the garage with 11,200
registered users tinkering around....or watching the geniuses tinkering
around and alpha/beta testing what the geniuses make trying to improve
and/or break things...(c;

Click on "Project Cloud" to find the right group/project, down a tree.
Pointing to a topic but not clicking will tell you how many projects are
under that topic....

If you completely destroy the OS in your tablet playing tag with things
you're not quite qualified for, not to worry. Unlike the secret
projects, you cannot brick it as long as the hardware remains intact.
Simply download and install the operating system installer into your
Windows box from Maemo you wish (there are 3 at the moment), Plug the
tablet into the USB port of your Windows box and run the installer. It
will completely wipe out everything on the tablet's main memory,
including all the software, documents, etc., you stupidly forgot to
BACKUP with the really neat backup utility to one of your two STANDARD
memory card monsters (32GB in mine, $59 ea at Newegg.com cheap) before
you blew the OS kernel...then, do a completely fresh install covering up
all your transgressions and stupid mistakes BEFORE anyone gets wise and
starts flaming you or laughing at you. No more returning the brick to
the factory to be FLEECED and laughed at!

My system is a Nokia N800 with the FREE OS upgrade to Maemo OS2008
installed. (Takes 3 minutes to upgrade.)

Oh, if you look at the header to this message, you'll see I'm running
Xnews from my WinXP box on Knology Cable at home. This is not quite
true, because I'm running Xnews by remote control from the N800 Linux
tablet's port of rdesktop to Remote Desktop on WinXP SP2 over Alltel's
EVDO because Hardee's hamburger joint doesn't have free broadband...(c;

I'm typing on the Nokia SU-8W Bluetooth folding keyboard and also use
the Nokia Bluetooth GPS LD-3W, the hottest GPS receiver I ever owned as
part of the Nokia N800 Navigation Kit. (Think GPS-enabled Google Earth
in your pocket, thanks to the hackers back in the garage who wrote Maemo
Mapper.)

Nokia is doing the right thing with open source.....The tablet is the
most addictive gadget I ever owned. Do try to be nice to the iPhone
owners, please. They know not what they got....

N800's price is holding at $232 at buy.com. The BT keyboard is about
$100 and the Navigation kit is $206 with a really strong windscreen
suction mount, mobile charging cord, 20 channel WAAS-compensated LD-3W
rechargeable GPS that fits in your watch pocket of your Levis for
walking with mapping. Stupid Buy.com has it listed for over $400 under
the N800....must include the N800 at that price...???

Well, see ya. There's 14 movies, 54 cartoons and 9 documentaries on my
external removable card. "Someone" wants to see one....bye...(c;