Month: July 2007

  • Stop global warming – travel by train

    An excellent collection of train travel related information on Seat61 web site (thanks to Nick Burch for the link). Virtually all countries and rail companies are described. Timetables, fares, best routes and a lot of travel tips are available. Just thinking about air travel, tightened security, requests to come to the airport at least 3…

  • At last – Mozilla based browser for N800

    Just a couple of days ago I was wondering when Nokia Internet Tablets will get an open source browser. So I was really happy to read today that a Mozilla based browser engine that shares the key components and extension interfaces with Firefox is available as a development version. UMPC has a brief review of…

  • Safari, Safari and Opera on 3 mobile devices

    Jonathan Green in his video post Browser Comparison: iPhone vs. Nokia N95 and N800 compared performance of Nokia S60 web browser, N800 Opera browser and iPhone Safari browser. Jonathan’s conclusion “my preference is for how Safari handles things over Opera” resonates with my own thoughts in “Opera Mobile vs. Nokia S60 browser – new browser…

  • Feature upgrade release to the Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition

    Nokia has just announced an update to the Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition, feature upgrade release is now available for download. The update (version number 4.2007.26-8) includes Skype client support, Adobe® Flash® 9 browser plug-in, improvements in online use times and single memory card support up to 8 GB. Read more on Maemo pages. via…

  • N800 – Often misunderstood Nokia Internet Tablet

    A pot of honey… I should admit that I didn’t believe in the internet tablet concept in the beginning. I simply couldn’t imagine why would I need a device like that if I already have a laptop to use when I’m at home/in the office and a multimedia computer when I’m on the move. That…