Interview with Nokia's Olli Toivanen
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| Q: What made you decide to use an open source platform instead of Symbian or
| some other OS?
| Olli: Our goal was to miniaturize some of the traditional uses of a full size
| PC - but also speed up innovation to converge new applications to a
| handset-sized device. For this goal, GNOME/Linux technology (on ARM) fits
| very well -- both from a developer standpoint, as well as from a
| technological performance perspective. S60 is an extremely good technology
| for the type of products that we use it for, and as such, it has a strong
| position within the telecom industry.
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| Q: From the outside, it looks like the N series has been a bit of a
| skunkworks project inside of Nokia. What was it like on the inside?
| Olli: I am proud of the work we have done within the Nseries team. It has
| established itself as the leader in technologically advanced mobile devices,
| and these devices have become an important part of Nokia's product portfolio.
| Our studies show that N series buyers really use the full range of features
| of the devices, which is fantastic. It validates the concept of convergence.
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| Internally, we have a real cool spirit of innovation. When it comes to Linux,
| it is no exception - the Internet Tablet allows us a lot of room to play and
| build new things together with companies and developers who are interested in
| Linux. Innovating at large company is relatively easy as long as it's
| sponsored at management level - and in our case it certainly is so.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2008/02/interview_with_1.html
Trolltech delivers Qt WebKit
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| Trolltech said Qt with WebKit integration enables developers to build common
| applications for traditional desktops and mobile devices. It also said WebKit
| complies with the main internet technologies including HTML, XHTML, CSS,
| JavaScript, SVG and AJAX.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/02/12/trolltech_webkit/
Related:
KDE on the IT
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| KDE and all it's supporting programs have been compiled for the Internet
| Tablet, and it works b-e-a-utifully. I've installed this sucker on my N770
| and it purrs like a kitten, believe it or not ;)
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http://geekpenguin.blogspot.com/2007/09/kde-on-it.html
Run the Palm OS on your Nokia Internet Tablet
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| The Garnet VM Beta for Nokia Nseries was created by ACCESS, who is the
| company that bought PalmSource. You can now run virtually all your favorite
| Palm OS applications on the Nokia Internet Tablets and I can’t wait to try
| out a few of my favorite apps.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/mobile-gadgeteer/?p=683
30,000 Palm apps coming to Nokia webpads
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7820486239.html
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