Nokia Internet Tablet Amazon's "Best of 2007"

2007-12-28 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, Thought you may be interested that Amazon has released its "Best of 2007" in different sections (most sold by quantity, most wanted etc) and Nokia's Internet Tablet's featured in list of the bestselling products on Amazon.com in 2007 by total units sold for the Computers sections: Computer

Re: Nokia N810 Q

2007-10-18 Thread Peter Robinson
> > > Is the internal 2GB card slot still user accessible next to the battery? > > > > No. > > > > I'm confused by this answer. Do you mean it's not next to the battery, > it's not user accessible, or both? > > Online reviews all mention two SD cards, but don't mention the > location of either of t

Re: [maemo-developers] State of Java on the maemo platform

2007-02-15 Thread Peter Robinson
This list would be the best and from the last I saw on the list there still isn't any working java. From the last I saw javame r2 oss should compile on arm but I'm yet too see anyone try. I doubt with the 4+ variants of 'mobile linux' that have sprung up in the last year or so (maemo, openmoko, f

Re: [maemo-developers] Maemo 2.1 and 3.0 SDKs at the same time

2007-01-26 Thread Peter Robinson
I think there's issues regarding installer locations but there's plans to bring out a 2.2 release to update 2.x to run in the later version of scratchbox. Peter On 1/26/07, Andrew Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Apologies if this has already been asked...but I was wondering if there are any iss

Re: [maemo-developers] n800 camera specs

2007-01-15 Thread Peter Robinson
Camera is vga. So that means 640 x 480. Peter On 1/15/07, Ty Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Y'all, I haven't seen any specs on the n800 camera (resolution, etc.). Can anybody point me in the right direction? Thanks. Oh, and for what it's worth, I'm now getting annoyed with the

Re: [maemo-developers] Howto: using two scratchbox environments

2007-01-15 Thread Peter Robinson
The updated maemo 2.2 I understand is essentially 2.1 with updates required to run it in the same scratchbox a v3 so you won't need 2 installs. Peter On 1/15/07, Aaron Levinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Janne Kataja wrote: > Aaron Levinson wrote: > > The standard maemo 3.

Re: [maemo-developers] OS2006 roadmap

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Robinson
On 1/10/07, Frantisek Dufka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote: > Even without any OS update for N770, you could do an application that > works both in N770 and N800, if you avoid using some API. I think most > N770 applications worked with small or non-existent changes in N800. >

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: video chat protocol

2007-01-09 Thread Peter Robinson
> is there somewhere information available on the protocol the video chat > client uses? or even some client? http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0166.html Google Talk is a pretty well distributed client you can use on Windows. So have they added video support? I haven't seen any announcements

Re: [maemo-developers] OS2006 roadmap

2007-01-09 Thread Peter Robinson
> BTW I was a bit surprised how unmercifully Dr. Ari Jaaksi killed n770's > future. It was pretty tough :-) Also it doesn't send good message to > users and developers considering the platform. Well, life is hard. Time > will tell if it was good move. Yes, I was too. They're not overly cheap dev

Re: [maemo-developers] Taste the Herring!

2006-11-30 Thread Peter Robinson
Andrew Flegg schreef: > On 11/30/06, Carlos Guerreiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Klassjan, >> >> > Since you state applications have to be "ported" to Maemo 3, will >> > Maemo 3 be backward compatible with Maemo 2.x applications? >> > [snip] >> We are working on documenting the changes and o

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: [maemo-announce] New Nokia 770 softwareimage available

2006-11-06 Thread Peter Robinson
On 11/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> By the way, can someone confirm or deny that the backup tool >does not >> back up your /etc/apt/sources.list and therefore you will have to >> re-add all the application manager repositories manually? > >Confirmed. Thus it is a good idea

[maemo-developers] Re: [maemo-users] Future features for Maemo Desktop (Task Navigator, Home, Status bar)?

2006-08-21 Thread Peter Robinson
EVDO and HSDPA wireless support should also added as an optional feature. This may require of course a new hardware release which supports one of the cardbus formats on which the EVDO and HSDPA cards can be obtained. By way of example, here is the url to a www page at the Linksys www site that sho

Re: [maemo-developers] Future features for Maemo Desktop (Task Navigator, Home, Status bar)?

2006-08-18 Thread Peter Robinson
On 8/18/06, Karoliina Salminen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello everybody, I am now collecting some ideas for future development of the UI framework. If you have any features that you'd like to see in the future in the components mentioned on the topic (Task Navigator, Home, Status bar), please

Re: [maemo-developers] How to access Addressbook from python or c?

2006-07-27 Thread Peter Robinson
I'm writting small python utility to fetch and synchronize contacts from cell phone over bluetooth. At this moment the utility is at very early stage and supports storing contacts to vcard file. The built-in Contacts application is able to import, but not to synchronize, thus making duplicates.

Re: [maemo-developers] GTK2.8 ??

2006-07-20 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 06:29 +0300, ext [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As far as I know, the current SDK2.0 and IT2006 is based on GTK+ 2.6.10. > > Is there any roadmap that GTK2.8 with Cairo would be employed for > further software releases? It depends on performance, we're looking into it. It's not

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: IT2006 EDS contacts

2006-06-13 Thread Peter Robinson
> if all these fields (phone number(s), postal address, and maybe even > others) are already supported by EDS, why not adding them to the > IT2006 Contacts? They comes for free and someone will surely find them > usefull sooner or later, as more and more apps will be released. > I agree, I end up

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: IT2006 EDS contacts

2006-06-13 Thread Peter Robinson
if all these fields (phone number(s), postal address, and maybe even others) are already supported by EDS, why not adding them to the IT2006 Contacts? They comes for free and someone will surely find them usefull sooner or later, as more and more apps will be released. I agree. All my computers

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: IT2006 EDS contacts

2006-06-13 Thread Peter Robinson
> Question 1: > I have seen that the contacts are now centralized using EDS. > In the contact, will a field "Phone Number" be included? > I think that would be better for contact management. Phone number is not included, as there is no way of calling a phone number from the 770. There will be w

Re: [maemo-developers] Missing libesd.a in Maemo 2.0 beta?

2006-06-10 Thread Peter Robinson
> The library libesd.a seems to be missing. There is a libesd.so (which > points to libesdo.so.0.2.35), but no static archive. sounds familiar - it seems to be a bug of various libtool (.la) files. It might be possible just to create an empty file, libesd.a shouldn't be used anymore. But i'm no

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: [maemo-announce] Maemo 2.0 beta published

2006-06-09 Thread Peter Robinson
If I have third party software and an ext2 root partition with OS 2005 and just pull the mmc card and flash it will essentially rest all the mounting of the root filesystem etc right? In other words doing this is a COMPLETE replacement and starts one from scratch. Yes, its a MAJOR upgrade. Even

Re: [maemo-developers] Maemo 2.0 beta published

2006-06-09 Thread Peter Robinson
> Today we published the maemo 2.0 beta on http://www.maemo.org. This > release includes both the maemo 2.0 beta development environment and the > Internet Tablet 2006 OS Beta image. For more details about the release > you can check out http://maemo.org/downloads/releases.html > > Have a great we

Re: [maemo-developers] Changes to GTK

2006-05-31 Thread Peter Robinson
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Re: [maemo-developers] Changes to GTK

2006-05-31 Thread Peter Robinson
Your probably after this http://maemo.org/maemowiki/MaemoGtk26Contributions Peter On 5/31/06, Madhusudan E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear All, Please help me to provide information regarding, where I can find the Changes made to GTK. i.e the changes between the GTK base version and Maemo

Re: [maemo-developers] http://press.nokia.com:80/PR/200605/1051308_5.html

2006-05-17 Thread Peter Robinson
Does the fact that there will be internet telephony software on the device mean that there will be a working driver for the internal microphone? Also I'd imagine(hope) that there will be some sort of compatibility for bluetooth headsets, otherwise it'd be a pain to have to hold the 770 in a posit

Re: [maemo-developers]http://press.nokia.com:80/PR/200605/1051308_5.html

2006-05-16 Thread Peter Robinson
> I also think it would be a good policy that the community will always > get information first before official press releases ;) The only actual news was integration with gizmo and a commitment to deliver it in june, the rest[2] has been on http://maemo.org/platform/docs/roadmap.html for some ti

Re: [maemo-developers]http://press.nokia.com:80/PR/200605/1051308_5.html

2006-05-16 Thread Peter Robinson
> What do you guys think? Should we try to push out the SB development > environment early, even if the developers can test apps on real device? Very brief: YES! I think Koen is perfectly right that developers should get a chance to cross compile their apps with the new dev-env. Even if

Re: [maemo-developers]http://press.nokia.com:80/PR/200605/1051308_5.html

2006-05-16 Thread Peter Robinson
>> What do you guys think? Should we try to push out the SB development >> environment early, even if the developers can test apps on real device? > > Absolutely! The API changes in particular must have time to be tested, even > if it's only in Scratchbox. Personally, I'd also like to see at least

Re: [maemo-developers] New Nokia 770 software image available

2006-04-24 Thread Peter Robinson
> > 2) Why did Nokia use a RS-MMC connector? A standard SD- > > Card interface would have been nice. Maybe for a future > > device... > > Isn't SD a closed format requiring non-disclosure agreements (and it does > not mix well with Linux for this reason) ??? Not exactly. Its apparently an open(ish

Re: [maemo-developers] Re: Abuse on the ApplicationCatalog page

2006-04-05 Thread Peter Robinson
On 4/5/06, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 14:22 +0300, Jussi Kukkonen wrote: > > Hi Ted, > > Could you set your mail program to use some kind of quoting, like ">"? > > Reading your response is quite difficult. > > > > Ted Teah wrote: > > > If y

Re: [maemo-developers] maemo mistral roadmap

2006-04-03 Thread Peter Robinson
> The maemo mistral (v2.0) roadmap is available at > http://maemo.org/platform/docs/roadmap.html > > Please send all comments, questions, feedback to the dev list. Is there a rough time frame for this roadmap? Is there a date for the first alpha release? Peter

Re: [maemo-developers] Hi..."Xephyr" is not running and opening in my system

2006-04-02 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi, > I am using SuSe Linux 9.3 with kernel 2.6 version. I am feeling very happy > to work with the Nokia 770 device. > > I would like to install the Maemo SDK but I got stuck with the "Xephyr" > installation. > > The tutorial says > "Xephyr is pre-installed in the rootsrap, so just to make starti

Re: [maemo-developers] New Software Version

2006-03-30 Thread Peter Robinson
> Does anyone have a date on when Nokia expects to release the next > version of the software? I've seen Q1 2006 a few places, but I'm > curious if anyone has any more concrete information. Nope. The release date of the official Internet Tablet 2006 release is sometime in 2006 but I don't think t

Re: [maemo-developers] Building maemo from cvs

2006-03-30 Thread Peter Robinson
> > > Is there any documentation anywhere about building (and using) maemo > > > from svn, installed in a separate prefix, or should I start a new page > > > on the maemo wiki? > > > > Along this track is there a apt where you can use a rawhide style > > system running the latest builds of maemo fr

Re: [maemo-developers] Building maemo from cvs

2006-03-29 Thread Peter Robinson
> Is there any documentation anywhere about building (and using) maemo > from svn, installed in a separate prefix, or should I start a new page > on the maemo wiki? Along this track is there a apt where you can use a rawhide style system running the latest builds of maemo from svn? Peter