Does the IT Bluetooth support multiple devices concurrently?

[John Holmblad]

All,

is it possible to simultaneously pair the N800 or N810 bluetooth 
radio/interface to a headset and to a mobile phone and have both 
pairings active at the same time?

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How About Google Maps for Mobile for the IT?

[John Holmblad]

All,

here is another app that would be nice to have on the IT:

http://www.google.com/mobile/default/maps.html#

At the end of that www page they put in the following teaser:

> Of course, if you have an iPhone, iPod touch, or Android device,
> you’ll already be familiar with Google Maps right there on your
> home screen.
>


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Citibank + Iphone

[John Holmblad]

All,

fyi. Maybe this will inspire Nokia to develop some really useful 
software for the IT's

https://online.citibank.com/US/JRS/portal/template.do?ID=CitiMobileTour

Although I am not by any means certain, I suspect that Citibank itself 
funded the development and owns the IP of this iphone app. If that is 
the case, then maybe they could be convinced to develop it for LInux 
based mobile devices as well.


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Re: Iphone + tethering - No Way

[John Holmblad]

Jonathan,

it occurs to me that the bottleneck is probably due to the fact that 

a) the computer that is being reached by the RDP session and where
the www browser is running is behind an Asymmetric DSL circuit  to
the Internet. I ran a speed test on that connection and the
bandwidth in the direction TO the Internet and the tethered laptop
from that computer is only ~369 kbps measured using the bandwidth
test at the www page whose url is

http://www.speakeasy/net/speedtest

combined with the fact that

b) on the tethered laptop side of the connection the measured
bandwidth in the direction from the laptop + mobile device TO the
Internet is only ~64kbps as measured using the same bandwidth test.


Thus the large and frequent (due to the dancing baloney etc) 
differential graphics frames being "played out" from the computer to the 
laptop RDP client at the above average bit rate of ~369 kbps combined 
with the TCP ACK packets being returned at the ~64kbps bit rate are 
conspiring to deliver relatively poor performance,

One of the reasons why a direct visit to a www site (i.e. not through 
the RDP/VNC/Server based browser) but through a browser running on the 
tethered laptop seems to work better is that, of course, the browser can 
and does open up multiple TCP connections to grab the image and other 
content from the visited www site wherever that www site is located on 
the Internet.

Best Regards,

 

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Jonathan Greene wrote:
> I thought when you remoted into a machine it used the local connection
> on that device and not your connection.  You'd only need to receive
> the differences in the screen but that should not be too terrible.  I
> do plenty of streaming and tethering (together sometimes even) and 2Gb
> is a lot of data.  I have an hour each day in either direction to burn
> on my commute.
>
> The text message is your voicemail notice coming through as visual
> voicemail on a non-compatible device.  I use Spinvox to which I've
> forwarded my voicemail and they send back a text version of the
> message - as well as in my email.  I couldn't take the BS from ATT
> anymore.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Brad Midgley  wrote:
>   
>> Hey
>>
>> I've also used the iPhone sim for data etc in a less locked-down
>> device. Have you noticed the strange text messages you get whenever
>> there's a status change on the voicemailbox? It can be annoying. The
>> text message is a URL and appears to be related to iPhone's special
>> handling of voicemail.
>>
>> It would be nice if we could figure out their special voicemail
>> handler, or, barring that, just filter out these messages.
>>
>> Jonathan Greene  wrote:
>> 
>>> I've been using the original iPhone SIM in various devices for years
>>> now and I tether all kinds of mobile devices from laptops, N810,
>>> netbooks ... no issues. I've cleared 2Gb a few times, but 5 would be
>>> more like your only connection ...
>>>   
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>>
>> 
>
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WSJ Article on competition heating up to the Iphone App Store

[John Holmblad]

All,

fyi, an article at the WSJ www page whose url is:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123629876097346481.html


concerning new "stores" that are challenging iphone app store.

The article suggests that Apple is asserting the Digital Millennium 
Copyright Act (DMCA)^_1 in support of its argument that jailbreaking an 
iphone violates DMCA.


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1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmca



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Re: Ihpone on Steroids to IT G5?

[John Holmblad]

Kevin,

agreed. A more indepth discussion with some of those other users would 
have provided the opportunity to reveal that value associated with a 
Linux based mobile device.

Now I have to wonder, does the iphone OS support multitasking?Is it a 
stripped down version of OS X? I;ll do some reading to find out.

Best Regards,

 John Holmblad
Acadia Secure Networks, LLC




Kevin T. Neely wrote:
> they likely don't care about multi-tasking until you give a concrete 
> example of a multi-tasking scenario:  say, listening to mp3s while 
> using IM..  Or, switching between browsing, IM, and [your favourite 
> iPhone app here].
>
> concepts like multi-tasking tend to go over most people's heads until 
> an example that directly impacts them comes into play.
>
> K
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:03 PM, John Holmblad 
>  <mailto:jholmb...@acadiasecurenets.com>> wrote:
>
> All,
>
>
> the post at the www page whose url is
>
>  
>  http://www.thestreet.com/story/10470711/1/rim-apple-feast-on-nokia.html
>
> frames the experience I had today.
>
> While seated at a luncheon following a technical  meeting
> (Cisco/VMware/Netapp/etc)  I duly noted that I was among a crowd (that
> would be ~6-8 people)  where the average mobile device at the
> table was
> somewhere between the iphone and the blackberry.
>
> While explaining what I do to the individual seated next to me , I
> brought the N800 into the discussion and  I blithely asserted that the
> N800 is, well,.like an iphone on steroids but without a GSM or
> CDMA radio for voice.  Although the listener,  knows that LInux is, in
> fact,  an operating system, and is aware of the TMobile G1 (but not
> Android), that individual did not perceive it as a big deal that the
> N800 runs LInux and is therefore capable of multitasking. This is
> perhaps what I expected, that is, the end user, even of the kind
> (let's
> call them technically sophisticated professionals) who would
> attend such
> an event, does not really care about these things.
>
> I did ask the iphone user about her experience with the device and she
> said she loved it. And during a discussion on iphone jailbreaking she
> confirmed that one of her friends has jailbroken his iphone to get
> tethering to work.
>
> I think that the following commentary
>
> > For consumers, it appears that features such as the touchscreen
> > interface are more in demand than the OS. Since the iPhone was
> > released, almost every major phone manufacturer is offering a
> > touch-screen model, many of which are not smartphones
>
> from the wireless week article whose url is:
>
>http://www.wirelessweek.com/article.aspx?id=166592
>
> says it all although the same article does have some positive
> things to
> say about the Nokia Nseries
>
>
> And speaking of Nokia and the Iphone, here is the url to another
> posting
> from the thestreet.com <http://thestreet.com> www site that
> suggests that Nokia will join hands
> with Verizon Wireless to take on the ATT/Iphone Cabal:
>
>
> 
> http://www.thestreet.com/story/10468078/1/nokia-verizon-plan-exclusive-4g-device.html
>
>
> Maybe what the article's author is referring to without knowing it
> is G5
> of the IT?
>
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>
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>
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Re: Nokia device usage

[John Holmblad]

Jean-Christian,

interesting. And from the diagram I see your point.

Of course the N95 is a full function mobile phone and based on that N95 
diagram I would expect that the heavy lifting of the 3G voice and HSPA 
protocols for voice and non-voice (packet) data above the physical layer 
would be implemented/managed between the Baseband  and the Application  
processor shown in that diagram as Texas Instruments devices. This in 
turn would suggest to me that that whether a device of this hardware 
design does or does not support 3G voice (not HSPA packetized voice) 
would be determined by whatever firmware/software is on the device and 
not by the hardware components in this design.

I should also note that one of the mobile device component suppliers, ST 
Ericsson, for their AERO RF TRANSCEIVER RF component family  does 
mention in their marketing brochure  available as an Adobe Acrobat .pdf 
at the www page whose url is

http://www.stericsson.com/sales_marketing_resources/RFBR_1.pdf

that these components can be used for either

Tri-band HSPA + quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE digital cellular handsets

or

Tri-band HSPA + quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE digital cellular data modems

In other words, the components suppliers such as ST Ericsson realize  
that their customers (the mobile handset manufacturers) may be 
interested in non-voice data devices as well as full function handsets. 
But here again that differentiation ( data device only vs full handset) 
would be determined by baseband firmware/software.


With all this chop shopping/reverse engineering/teardown being performed 
by analysis companies like isupply and others  it makes me wonder if the 
handset manufacturers actually cooperate with such outfits to make the 
teardown analysis a little bit easier. On the other hand, by taking the 
product "off the shelf" and "out of the box", without "help" from the 
manufacturer, the teardown specialist is assured of starting with an "on 
the street" product vs one that may have been "juiced" by the manufacturer.

I should add that the  article on page 78-80 (Adobe Acrobat pp 82-84) in 
the issue of Electronic Products Magazine available at the www page 
whose url is:

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/hearst/ep0508/index.php?startid=80

provides an impressive amount of detail from the "chop" that isupply 
performed on the N95. It does reinforce my point that the mobile device 
designers are acutely aware of the components of product cost  Further 
detail pm the N95 component workup is provided on the www page whose url is:

http://www2.electronicproducts.com/Nokia_N95-whatsinside-61.aspx


Best Regards,

 

John Holmblad

 

Acadia Secure Networks, LLC

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Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote:
> John Holmblad a écrit :
>> http://www.smta.org/files/CTEA_High_Density_Pkg_Trends-Carey-Portelligent.pdf
>>  
>>
>> You can see,  from viewing the iphone PCB discussed on pp 13-17 of 
>> that presentation. that, in addition to having separate power amps 
>> for each of 3 frequency band groupings (it is a quad band device). 
>> the device also has a Multi-chip package (MCP) to handle both a 
>> GSM/EDGE chip as well as a WCDMA chip needed for 3g baseband 
>> processing.  I could foresee that another designer, with an 
>> application that did not require 2G "backward compatibility", might 
>> :design out:   the 2G chip ( "hold the 2g" if you will) in order to 
>> save space and power in the design. This, however, would make the 
>> device un-useable in a network that was not 100% 3G/UMTS, UNLESS the 
>> device was being used ONLY for non-voice data access and not for 
>> "traditional" voice.
>
> John,
>
> Nokia will more likely use this kind of integration:
>
> http://www.phonewreck.com/wiki/index.php?title=Nokia_N95#Block_Diagram
>
> The Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE + Dual-band UMTS/HSPDA chain use 1 chip 
> for the baseband, 1 chip for the transceiver and 1 chip for the 
> amplifier.
>
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Ihpone on Steroids to IT G5?

[John Holmblad]

All,


the post at the www page whose url is

http://www.thestreet.com/story/10470711/1/rim-apple-feast-on-nokia.html

frames the experience I had today.

While seated at a luncheon following a technical  meeting 
(Cisco/VMware/Netapp/etc)  I duly noted that I was among a crowd (that 
would be ~6-8 people)  where the average mobile device at the table was 
somewhere between the iphone and the blackberry.

While explaining what I do to the individual seated next to me , I 
brought the N800 into the discussion and  I blithely asserted that the 
N800 is, well,.like an iphone on steroids but without a GSM or 
CDMA radio for voice.  Although the listener,  knows that LInux is, in 
fact,  an operating system, and is aware of the TMobile G1 (but not 
Android), that individual did not perceive it as a big deal that the 
N800 runs LInux and is therefore capable of multitasking. This is 
perhaps what I expected, that is, the end user, even of the kind (let's 
call them technically sophisticated professionals) who would attend such 
an event, does not really care about these things.

I did ask the iphone user about her experience with the device and she 
said she loved it. And during a discussion on iphone jailbreaking she 
confirmed that one of her friends has jailbroken his iphone to get 
tethering to work.

I think that the following commentary

> For consumers, it appears that features such as the touchscreen
> interface are more in demand than the OS. Since the iPhone was
> released, almost every major phone manufacturer is offering a
> touch-screen model, many of which are not smartphones

from the wireless week article whose url is:

http://www.wirelessweek.com/article.aspx?id=166592

says it all although the same article does have some positive things to 
say about the Nokia Nseries
 

And speaking of Nokia and the Iphone, here is the url to another posting 
from the thestreet.com www site that suggests that Nokia will join hands 
with Verizon Wireless to take on the ATT/Iphone Cabal:


http://www.thestreet.com/story/10468078/1/nokia-verizon-plan-exclusive-4g-device.html


Maybe what the article's author is referring to without knowing it is G5 
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Re: Nokia device usage

[John Holmblad]

James,

as you are well aware, a user of a Microsoft Desktop or Server OS is not 
required to use Outlook for email. Mozilla Thunderbird works quite well  
on Microsoft OS's and of course there is Evolution.

I should add that, just as Microsoft has mitigated/eliminated well known 
vulnerabilities in earlier versions of the Microsoft OS's  through the 
release of improved versions of their OS's  including Sever 2003/2008, 
XP SP1/2/3, and Vista and Vista SP1, Microsoft has also 
mitigated/eliminated many vulnerabilities in the components of earlier 
versions of Microsoft Office with the release of Microsoft Office 2007.


Best Regards,

 

John Holmblad

 

Acadia Secure Networks, LLC




James Knott wrote:
> kenneth marken wrote:
>   
>>> Bottom line, there are a lot of technical and usage reasons that make it
>>> much harder for malware to attack Linux/Unix.
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>> the "big" problem here is that the target for said malware have
>> changed...
>>
>> its no longer about bringing down whole systems. these days its the
>> users data they are after. credit card info, codes of all kinds, and
>> just about anything else.
>>
>> was there not a sweep of ransom attacks where a worm would archive the
>> whole content of the users document dir, and encrypt the archive?
>> leaving a message to send x amount of money to some account for the
>> password?
>>
>> under these situations, read access is more then enough access, most
>> of the time.
>>
>> the only option i can see for the user then is to run every program he
>> tries to make use of online, inside some kind of chroot can. but even
>> thats not perfect.
>>
>> basically, the only really safe option is to yank that plug, and use
>> only home-coded apps...
>> 
>
> Again, it's harder.  In Outlook, for example, a virus attached to an
> email could run as soon as the message was read, without the user having
> to do anything.  For a virus to run in Linux, the user would have to:
> 1) detach the file
> 2) make it executable
> 3) manually run it
>
> In short, it won't run without the user taking 3 deliberate steps to run it.
>
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Re: Iphone + tethering - No Way

[John Holmblad]

Jonathan,

I did not ask the sales rep, HOW ATT prevents tethering on the iphone 
and it did not occur to me that they would use the user identity and 
account info derived from the SIM to prevent tethering. For that to 
work, the ATT network would have to be able to determine when a device 
was attempting to tether while authenticated with a SIM and user account 
that did not allow that. I just assume that the iphone hw+sw was 
designed to not include tethering capability, from Apple, at least. As 
Jose points out, there is at least one app available to turn the iphone 
into an IEEE 802.11 Access Point.

Now, I have to ask, does "jailbreaking" the iphone violate the ATT 
commercial terms of its use on the ATT Network?


And speaking of data volume limits for these plans, I have learned that  
a good way to exceed the 5gb limit per month of either ATT's or Verizon 
Wireless's data plan is to start doing RDP or VNC sessions to other 
computers/servers from a computer that is tethered to your mobile 
device. Then launch a www browser on the target computer/server and 
visit your typical www sites (I am not even talking about, say youtube 
here) using that browser on that computer/server. With all the rich 
graphics. and dancing baloney on today's typical www site you will 
quickly  consume that 5 gb on the mobile network with all the graphical 
content being played out over the RDP or VNC session. Actually I am 
making a bit of an assumption here, because so far I have only tried 
this using RDP. VNC may be more bit efficient.

 I understand that Citrix, the original developer of the RDP components 
that Microsoft uses, themselves have a more efficient version of RDP 
(RDP+?} that is, well, more efficient when it comes to the video part of 
RDP.

In fact, and speaking only based on my experience with the typical real 
bandwidths (~300kbps in the direction to the tethered device) that I get 
over the Verizon Wireless network in the locations where I use it, I get 
that old "dial up/slow-mo" feeling sometimes when using this service. 
The performance  is bad enough that I wish it would be better, but good 
enough that I keep using it.


Best Regards,

 

John Holmblad

 

Acadia Secure Networks, LLC

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Jonathan Greene wrote:
> I've been using the original iPhone SIM in various devices for years
> now and I tether all kinds of mobile devices from laptops, N810,
> netbooks ... no issues. I've cleared 2Gb a few times, but 5 would be
> more like your only connection ...
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Kevin T. Neely
>  wrote:
>   
>> FWIW, I don't have an iphone, but I do have a $15/mo unlimited (which means
>> 5GB) plan from AT&T and I tether my laptop to that.
>>
>> K
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:27 PM, John Holmblad
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I finally had a chance to visit an ATT store near me to check out iphone
>>> service plan pricing. In the process I learned that the iphone does NOT
>>> support tethering (via bluetooth or otherwise) of other devices to it
>>> for the purpose of Internet access for such other devices. Furthermore I
>>> learned that ATT, like Verizon Wireless, has 2 choices of data plans for
>>> those devices that DO support tethering as explained to me by their
>>> salesperson. These choices are
>>>
>>>1. Device only Internet access   $30
>>>US/month
>>>
>>>2. #1 above + Device Tethering capability  $60 US/month^1
>>>(there is a limit of 5gb/month put on this)
>>>
>>>
>>> ATT also has a data only plan for users who just want to use a USB or
>>> Cardbus adapter for mobile Internet access for their PC or other device.
>>> The monthly charge for that plan, called "Data Connect" is $60/month
>>> also with a 5gb limit but with overage charges for use beyond the 5
>>> gb/month.
>>>
>>> I should note that the $60 US/month for  pricing plan #2 above from ATT
>>> compares with a price of $44.99 US/month^2 from Verizon which has the
>>> same 5gb monthly limit (stated in its fine print), a ~$15 US/month price
>>> difference in favor of Verizon Wireless vs ATT.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> John Holmblad
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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Re: Iphone + tethering - No Way

[John Holmblad]

Jose,

Interesting. I have to wonder though if ATT considers that a hack as 
legitimate as it might be that violates the use policy of its service 
for the iphone. There is a similar app that installs/runs on 802.11 
enabled Windows Mobile devices.


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John Holmblad

 

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Jose Vargas wrote:
> Read PDA.net is now available for iPhone that for around $40 turns it 
> into a wireless router.
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Jonathan Greene 
> mailto:atmasph...@atmasphere.net>> wrote:
>
> I've been using the original iPhone SIM in various devices for years
> now and I tether all kinds of mobile devices from laptops, N810,
> netbooks ... no issues. I've cleared 2Gb a few times, but 5 would be
> more like your only connection ...
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Kevin T. Neely
> mailto:ktne...@astroturfgarden.com>>
> wrote:
> > FWIW, I don't have an iphone, but I do have a $15/mo unlimited
> (which means
> > 5GB) plan from AT&T and I tether my laptop to that.
> >
> > K
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:27 PM, John Holmblad
> >  <mailto:jholmb...@acadiasecurenets.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> All,
> >>
> >> I finally had a chance to visit an ATT store near me to check
> out iphone
> >> service plan pricing. In the process I learned that the iphone
> does NOT
> >> support tethering (via bluetooth or otherwise) of other devices
> to it
> >> for the purpose of Internet access for such other devices.
> Furthermore I
> >> learned that ATT, like Verizon Wireless, has 2 choices of data
> plans for
> >> those devices that DO support tethering as explained to me by their
> >> salesperson. These choices are
> >>
> >>1. Device only Internet access   $30
> >>US/month
> >>
> >>2. #1 above + Device Tethering capability  $60
> US/month^1
> >>(there is a limit of 5gb/month put on this)
> >>
> >>
> >> ATT also has a data only plan for users who just want to use a
> USB or
> >> Cardbus adapter for mobile Internet access for their PC or
> other device.
> >> The monthly charge for that plan, called "Data Connect" is
> $60/month
> >> also with a 5gb limit but with overage charges for use beyond the 5
> >> gb/month.
> >>
> >> I should note that the $60 US/month for  pricing plan #2 above
> from ATT
> >> compares with a price of $44.99 US/month^2 from Verizon which
> has the
> >> same 5gb monthly limit (stated in its fine print), a ~$15
> US/month price
> >> difference in favor of Verizon Wireless vs ATT.
> >>
> >> --
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> >> Best Regards,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> John Holmblad
> >>
> >>
> >>
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Re: Nokia device usage

[John Holmblad]

Jean. Christian,

yes I do while at the same time realizing that I could be wrong on this. 

Depending upon how Nokia product management intends to position the G4 
IT product (eg is it going to be a direct substitute for the iphone with 
additional superior features like tethering support and high quality 
video that the iphone does not have/support) will determine what 
hardware and software goes into the device.

As Nokia and the other device designers fully understand, device 
physical dimensions are  a key constraint in mobile device design. Here, 
for example, is the url to an Adobe Acrobat .pdf of a powerpoint 
presentation from a company that specializes in analytical  "teardowns" 
of devices, especially mobile ones and toward the end there is a section 
that discusses the technology in the iphone:


http://www.smta.org/files/CTEA_High_Density_Pkg_Trends-Carey-Portelligent.pdf

You can see,  from viewing the iphone PCB discussed on pp 13-17 of that 
presentation. that, in addition to having separate power amps for each 
of 3 frequency band groupings (it is a quad band device). the device 
also has a Multi-chip package (MCP) to handle both a GSM/EDGE chip as 
well as a WCDMA chip needed for 3g baseband processing.  I could foresee 
that another designer, with an application that did not require 2G 
"backward compatibility", might :design out:   the 2G chip ( "hold the 
2g" if you will) in order to save space and power in the design. This, 
however, would make the device un-useable in a network that was not 100% 
3G/UMTS, UNLESS the device was being used ONLY for non-voice data access 
and not for "traditional" voice.


The point here is that given the constraints of packaging, weight, power 
consumption and intend use (is it primarily a non-voice data device or 
is it mostly  a voice device with the need for some non-voice data 
capability?), the product designer will have to make design tradeoffs.

Of course with each "turn" of Moores Law, every 18 months or so, the 
technology constraints are relaxed by that proverbial factor of 2 but 
somehow it does seem that the expectations for the intended use (the 
product requirements if you will)  increase by a like amount to absorb 
whatever performance/size/cost/power consumption benefits accrue from  
the corresponding "turn" of Moores Law.

Best Regards,

John Holmblad

Acadia Secure Networks, LLC

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Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote:
> John Holmblad a écrit :
>> Jean-Christian,
>>
>> the term "3g radio" is a fairly broad term. The key is what software 
>> is going to be in the new G4 IT above the radio/physical layer.  It 
>> would make sense, especially if Nokia decides that the G4 IT is going 
>> to go after the market served by the iphone, to  give the G4 IT, full 
>> 2G/3G voice functionality in addition to  HSDPA. The rub here with 
>> such a decision may be the impact on the product cost of having to 
>> use a presumably more expensive radio of the kind that are contained 
>> in 2G/3G dual mode handsets. I would think that for a product 
>> released in 2009 2G support would still be essential.
> [...]
>
> John,
>
> It seem that you think that there exists 3G chip that make only HSPA, 
> without voice, and/or without 2G compatibility. You can be right, but 
> I have a big doubt on that.
>
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Re: Iphone + tethering - No Way

[John Holmblad]

Kevin,

you may have legacy pricing because it now appears from the ATT www site 
that it is $30/month for the "Data Connect" service. Do you actually get 
bit rates above 100kbps in your location? I suspect that the ATT 
service, similar to Verizon Wireless's service, will automatically 
downhift to  GPRS/Edge bit rates (on Verizon Wireless's network it is 
referred to as 1xRTT). Maybe ATT had a lower price for those geographic 
locations that were not yet upgraded to HSDPA.

Best Regards,

 

John Holmblad

 

Acadia Secure Networks, LLC

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Kevin T. Neely wrote:
> FWIW, I don't have an iphone, but I do have a $15/mo unlimited (which 
> means 5GB) plan from AT&T and I tether my laptop to that.
>
> K
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:27 PM, John Holmblad 
>  <mailto:jholmb...@acadiasecurenets.com>> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I finally had a chance to visit an ATT store near me to check out
> iphone
> service plan pricing. In the process I learned that the iphone
> does NOT
> support tethering (via bluetooth or otherwise) of other devices to it
> for the purpose of Internet access for such other devices.
> Furthermore I
> learned that ATT, like Verizon Wireless, has 2 choices of data
> plans for
> those devices that DO support tethering as explained to me by their
> salesperson. These choices are
>
>1. Device only Internet access   $30
>US/month
>
>2. #1 above + Device Tethering capability  $60 US/month^1
>(there is a limit of 5gb/month put on this)
>
>
> ATT also has a data only plan for users who just want to use a USB or
> Cardbus adapter for mobile Internet access for their PC or other
> device.
> The monthly charge for that plan, called "Data Connect" is $60/month
> also with a 5gb limit but with overage charges for use beyond the 5
> gb/month.
>
> I should note that the $60 US/month for  pricing plan #2 above
> from ATT
> compares with a price of $44.99 US/month^2 from Verizon which has the
> same 5gb monthly limit (stated in its fine print), a ~$15 US/month
> price
> difference in favor of Verizon Wireless vs ATT.
>
> --
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
>
> John Holmblad
>
>
>
> Acadia Secure Networks, LLC
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Iphone + tethering - No Way

[John Holmblad]

All,

I finally had a chance to visit an ATT store near me to check out iphone 
service plan pricing. In the process I learned that the iphone does NOT 
support tethering (via bluetooth or otherwise) of other devices to it 
for the purpose of Internet access for such other devices. Furthermore I 
learned that ATT, like Verizon Wireless, has 2 choices of data plans for 
those devices that DO support tethering as explained to me by their 
salesperson. These choices are

1. Device only Internet access   $30
US/month

2. #1 above + Device Tethering capability  $60 US/month^1  
(there is a limit of 5gb/month put on this)


ATT also has a data only plan for users who just want to use a USB or 
Cardbus adapter for mobile Internet access for their PC or other device. 
The monthly charge for that plan, called "Data Connect" is $60/month 
also with a 5gb limit but with overage charges for use beyond the 5 
gb/month.

I should note that the $60 US/month for  pricing plan #2 above from ATT 
compares with a price of $44.99 US/month^2 from Verizon which has the 
same 5gb monthly limit (stated in its fine print), a ~$15 US/month price 
difference in favor of Verizon Wireless vs ATT.

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3G + iphone - not so fast

[John Holmblad]

All,

maybe some of you have seen this already. but today I came across the 
following utube video which attempts to separate fact from fiction with 
respect to ATT's 3g service when used with the Iphone


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaN1Nz1Dyls&eurl=http://www.jasonball.com/techbytes/2008/09/would-the-real-iphone-please-stand-up.html&feature=player_embedded


According to the video's creator, the unscientific measurement of 
performance was done in an area of Boston, Ma that has a strong 3g signal.


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Re: Nokia device usage

[John Holmblad]

Jean-Christian,

the term "3g radio" is a fairly broad term. The key is what software is 
going to be in the new G4 IT above the radio/physical layer.  It would 
make sense, especially if Nokia decides that the G4 IT is going to go 
after the market served by the iphone, to  give the G4 IT, full 2G/3G 
voice functionality in addition to  HSDPA. The rub here with such a 
decision may be the impact on the product cost of having to use a 
presumably more expensive radio of the kind that are contained in 2G/3G 
dual mode handsets. I would think that for a product released in 2009 2G 
support would still be essential.

On the other hand, if Nokia is not planning to make the G4 IT into a 
full mobile smartphone (as we know such devices today) then my surmise 
that, in the case of the G4 IT, there will NOT be a 2G/3G radio nor will 
there be the software to support  all the voice call handoff/roaming 
that is contained in a regular 2g/3g mobile phone. Rather the software 
will rely on SIP endpoint services such as are contained in the current 
G3 IT and will utilize the underlying (unreliable best effort) IP 
service capability layered on a HSUPA radio layer to agnostically 
(voice, data,who cares as long as it is in a packet)  move the voice UDP 
packets end to end over the mobile service provider's network. One 
consequence of this approach, is that, for such voice traffic 
originating/terminating on a G4 IT, the 3G radio base stations inside of 
the mobile service provider's network would NOT have to be concerned 
about voice call handoff from base station to base station in the case 
of a user that is in motion. The base stations would only need to 
concern themselves with handing off an (unreliable by definition) IP 
interface from one BS to the next. Only the SIP endpoints would be aware 
of the voice connection.


Related to this, today I learned that a consortium of mobile industry 
participants (mostly infrastructure equipment providers) just today 
announced yet another "forum" called the  VOLGA forum (no relation to 
the Volga River) to

".enable mobile operators to deliver mobile voice and messaging 
services over LTE access networks based on the existing 3GPP Generic 
Access Network (GAN) standard."

VOLGA in this case stands for "Voice Over Lte via Generic Access" and a  
"Generic Access Network"^1 is a network that uses IP at its core (e.g. 
one based on IEEE 802.11 a/b/g wireless)for transport).

Here is the url to the www page for the VOLGA www site:

http://www.volga-forum.com/index.php
 

Now I thought that the LTE standards framework as defined by the 3GPP 
had already solved the very basic question of how to convey mobile voice 
and messaging over LTE but clearly I was wrong.

Obviously  this VOLGA group has some new and/or different ideas of how 
to utilize LTE infrastructure using GAN principles to convey voice and 
SMS over a 4g network. different, that is,  from  the method that is 
already contained in the 3GPP LTE standards framework.

Since there are no spec's yet published on this www site from this forum 
it is impossible to say for sure but, based on my reading of what GAN is 
all about,  my gut tells me that VOLGA is a "voice over packet" solution 
similar to what I surmised above and that this solution  is somehow 
different from whatever "voice over packet" solution is already 
contained in the 3gpp standards.

I suspect that what is going on here is that,  as the commercial reality 
and success of VOIP and SIP trunking service providers (aided and 
abetted by the fantastic success of the proprietary protocol based SKYPE 
service) seeps in to the minds of the world's mobile network planners, 
these planners from within the mobile service providers, handset 
providers, and infrastructure providers are all rethinking how to most 
cost effectively evolve the world's mobile networks to 4g.

I do find it interesting that, with respect to the VOLGA forum, although 
the infrastructure providers Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel, Ericsson and ZTE 
are involved, there is no mention of Nokia-Siemens Networks as a member.



1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Access_Network


Best Regards,

 

John Holmblad

 

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Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote:
> Andrew Flegg a écrit :
>> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Jean-Christian de Rivaz  
>> wrote:
>>> I don't understand why the next tablet will not be able to make regular
>>> phone call, since it will have 3G link. It's a non sense.
>>
>> You seem awfully sure about the features of a device which has yet to
>> be announced, let alone released.
>>
>> Perhaps such certainty should be held in check until an announcement
>> is actually made about what the RX-51 and RX-71 *are*?
>
> Of course I can be wrong. I just read news f

Re: Nokia device usage

[John Holmblad]

Mark,

re your comment

> Managing repositories is far beyond the
> understanding of the average consumer. Installing apps from source
> code is even less user-friendly. Far too many important apps must be
> installed with apt-get from the command line and don't show up at all
> in Adept. That's barely scratching the surface.

this repository management problem will eventually be resolved as 
services such as  the Novell sponsored OpenSuse Build Service  
eventually make it possible for end users  to customize their own OS + 
related software installs without concern for the packaging details.  
This kind of  service will eventually make mass customization of LInux 
environments possible.  With services like this it will be possible to 
have builds that are unique to each user or community of users.

You may already be aware of this service since it has been around for 
awhile now. Here is the url to a www page with some commentary on this 
service:


http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3655986/Novell-Auto-Builds-Linux-For-All.htm

Here is the url to the www page for the Opensuse build service portal:
   
http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service#Build_Service_Source_Code

Although I learned about the RPath service a few years ago I did not pay 
much attention to the problem of Linux OS+App build since I have not 
been involved in that kind of activity except as an end user using 
either Redhat's or Novells install tools.  However, recently the 
Opensuse build service showed up as a discussion to topic on the 
maemo-developers list which led me to take a closer look at it.


Best Regards,

 

John Holmblad

 

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Mark wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:43 PM, lakestevensdental
>  wrote:
>   
>> Mark wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:29 PM, lakestevensdental
>>>  wrote:
>>> \> Good luck carrying that non-Apple albatross around your neck...  It's
>>>
>>>   
>>>> not like there's nothing to learn from the successful.
>>>>
>>>> Always, Fred C
>>>>
>>>> 
>>> ...or non-Micro$oft, or non-Linux, or...  it all depends on whose
>>> fan-boy you're talking to. The sad fact is that they're *all*
>>> albatrosses in one way or another.
>>>
>>>   
>> M$ is no albatross.  It's the world's largest computer virus.
>>
>> 
>
> and Apple isn't? You're being very hypocritical.
>
>   
>> Apple, hmmm  IMHO, they've found a growing niche for folks who want
>> to get over the M$ virus, who feel the need to buy something that works.
>> 
>
> Give me a break. Whether you want to admit it or not, Windows *does*
> work well enough for it to be overwhelmingly dominant, and the only
> reason it breaks so often is because it's so much more open than MacOS
> or OS X - which is nothing but a crippled rip-off of Linux...
>
> For everything you can do on an Apple, you can do fifty things on a
> Windows box, and you have a multitude of choices of software to do
> each thing, most of which are far cheaper, just as stable and more
> featureful than the Apple alternative.
>
> Having used many flavors of DOS, all versions of Windows since 3.11,
> many Macs, and many different distros of Linux (not to mention UNIX
> and other mainframe OSes from the '70s and '80s) over the years, I can
> tell you that they're *all* full of crap. Linux crashes, Macs crash,
> and Windows doesn't crash as much as the Mac and Linux fanboys want to
> believe.
>
> And the only reason that Linux and Macs are so relatively safe from
> viruses and worms is because they aren't targeted, not because they
> are fundamentally more secure.
>
> (Don't get me wrong, I'm in the last stages of escaping the "Micro$oft
> virus" myself - my daily use is with kubuntu and my N800. However, I'm
> still forced to boot into WinXP occasionally to do things that just
> aren't yet possible in Linux.)
>
>   
>>>  If it weren't for the iPod, Apple would have died an ugly
>>> death a long time ago. They were in a very serious crisis when the
>>> iPod came out. They're still far from dominant in the computer market,
>>> and probably never will be.
>>>   
>>  The Ipod phenon has been an interesting ride to watch.  Say what you
>> want about Apple's marketing style -- it's worked to dominate a rapidly
>> growing market niche and will likely continue that way into the near
>> future because of sheer marketing momentum of it and it&

Re: Nokia device usage

[John Holmblad]

kenneth,

I have not read the HSDPA spec myself but my assumption is that it is 
"all packet, all the time"  As the "P" implies in "HSDPA" 

UMTS, as a superset of HSDPA incorporates  various  QOS  and other 
features (roaming, voice connection awareness, etc) that are needed in 
order to properly handle voice traffic as a part of the total packet 
stream on a UMTS network. As I understand it, the key difference between 
voice traffic on a 3g network vs voice traffic on a 4 g network such as 
one based on,  LTE, or  WIMAX  is that on a 4 g network the network core 
is packetized and runs IP (or at least an connectionless packetized core 
with a network protocol that looks like IP) with QOS enhancements for 
the voice packets. On the other hand, on a 3 g network with HSUPA or 
HSDPA, the voice traffic, although it may be statistically multiplexed, 
is not competing for the same bandwidth as the HSUPA/HSDPA packets. 
Perhaps a 3G expert on this list could clarify this somewhat subtle 
point. if not I will dig into the spec myself to figure this out.

I have always (professionally speaking) considered voice as  a 
particular case of data (bits if you will) with specific 
characteristics, i.e. connection oriented, duplex content flow, 
streaming, delay sensitive, and relatively narrow bandwidth (i.e. 
frequency limited) per "conversation"/connection.

My assumption is that most GSM mobile network service providers who are 
evolving to 3G are building HSDPA overlay networks  to first (and 
primarily) convey non-voice data (by my definition, above, not an 
oxymoron)  just as the CDMA based mobile network service providers have 
built EVDO overlays to do the same thing. In other words those GSM 
service providers are not attempting to move their voice traffic to UMTS 
right away.

A key difference  between HSDPA/UMTS on the one hand and EVDO/CDMA on 
the other (in terms of application of the underlying technology)  is 
that, in the U.S. at least the CDMA/EVDO providers (the largest being 
Verizon and Sprint) are not themselves using EVDO to convey voice 
although the end user of EVDO service could certainly do so (e.g. SKYPE 
or arrangement with a SIP trunking provider). They are using EVDO 
service to meet new and growing demand for broadband wireless Internet 
access.

On the other hand mobile service providers who are evolving from GSM to 
3G/UMTS can, if they so choose, start to move their voice traffic over 
to their UMTS infrastructure (equipment and RF) and do so gradually by 
providing their customers with dual mode 2g/3g handsets. Although the 
UMTS standard, supports call handoff from GSM to UMTS, I have to wonder 
how much of that is actually going on right now since the user would 
have a dual mode (GSM + 3G) handset and the network would have to be 
engineered to implement such inter-technology (GSM<=>3G) handoff/roaming.


Best Regards,

 

John Holmblad

 

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kenneth marken wrote:
> John Holmblad wrote:
>> Andrew,
>>
>> yes, I am being overly presumptuous as to what kind of radio 
>> technology will and will not be in the next turn of the IT hardware. 
>> I must have read it somewhere that it was going to be HSDPA only.
>>
>
> HSDPA do not result in data only, as HSDPA only builds on UMTS. and 
> UMTS carry voice just fine...
>
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Re: N8xx ponderings

[John Holmblad]

Fred C,

re your comment

"...with more core memory."

Where can I get some of that?

The long boot time of windows XP, and, for that matter Vista, explains 
why Microsoft is racing to get Windows 7 out the door to "fix" that 
Achilles heel vs Linux. Microsoft are only too aware that today's 10-18 
year olds (the next generation, if you will, of corporate users) will 
prefer what works first/fastest to reconnect them to their connected 
world vs whose name is on the OS.

This reboot lag time problem even extends to Windows Mobile. My 
experience is that when I have to boot my Windows Mobile handset it 
takes over 60 seconds whereas  my Nokia IT takes 30 seconds. Our 16 year 
old who texts beyond belief with an LG Voyager would not give a Windows 
Mobile handset the time of day.

Best Regards,

 

John Holmblad

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lakestevensdental wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:28 PM, kenneth marken  
>> wrote:
>> 
>>>> iirc, when first launched the linux variant was the lowest spec-ed 
>>>> one, and
>>>> the windows variants both came with rebates that made them as cheap or
>>>> cheaper then the start out config of the linux one.
>>>> 
> FYI, you can install Ubuntu Easy Peasy on a Linux netbook with a couple 
> easy steps.  Dual boot to XP or Xandros is possible. 
>
> Also, if you've got a spare XP license floating around, it's relatively 
> simple to install XP on a linux netbook 
> <http://www.multimolti.de/blog/2008/12/14/install-windows-7-on-asus-eee-pc-900/>,
>  
> nLited or not.  FYI, my nLited XP eee netbook running at a modest 600M 
> speed boots from solid state memory in about 15 seconds, about a minute 
> faster than most any other XP I've used.  It's truly impressive how well 
> XP runs when you nLite and remove all the MS junk you never use or 
> need.  I also just upgraded from 500M to a SODIMM 2G internal memory 
> card for $25.  Meanwhile, my ntablet appears stuck with a whopping 128M... 
>
> FYI, I spend more time on my tablet than my netbook while poking around 
> RSS, simple mind games, email and web.  Netbooks require you to sit up 
> in bed, so I can't see retiring my tablet anytime soon. 
>
> I just wish the tablet hardware could be upgraded to higher speed 
> processing, with more core memory -- WITHOUT having to buy a new unit.  
> Who knows, perhaps an OS upgrade that allowed 256 or 512M of memory 
> would help.  Speed would seem likely to fix most of the browsing and 
> video limitations many have with the current n8xx tablets.   Faster 
> processing and larger memory might also enable actually recording decent 
> video with a tablet. 
>
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Re: Nokia device usage

[John Holmblad]

Andrew,

yes, I am being overly presumptuous as to what kind of radio technology 
will and will not be in the next turn of the IT hardware. I must have 
read it somewhere that it was going to be HSDPA only.

.

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Andrew Flegg wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Jean-Christian de Rivaz  wrote:
>   
>> I don't understand why the next tablet will not be able to make regular
>> phone call, since it will have 3G link. It's a non sense.
>> 
>
> You seem awfully sure about the features of a device which has yet to
> be announced, let alone released.
>
> Perhaps such certainty should be held in check until an announcement
> is actually made about what the RX-51 and RX-71 *are*?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
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Re: Nokia device usage

[John Holmblad]

Jean-Christian,

you are, of course, correct in that Nokia has had tremendous success 
with mass market mobile phones but not PDA's or IT's. 

Nokia might do well run the following experiment (in situ if you will) 
to get a better (and sooner than 2 more generations from now) grasp of 
what the mass market really expects/demands from an IT like product..

* Select a diversified (from janitor to exec level) sample of say
  100 NON-Technical employees of Nokia from around the world who do
  not already own/use an IT and provide them with a N810 + a mobile
  phone with data service but with all other apps besides voice on
  the mobile phone itself disabled. Disabling those apps obviously
  will force the user to "get to know" the N810.

* Provide no training, only the documentation in the product box.

* Let them use the combo for 90 days

* Run a focus group (or a few) at the end to record experiences,
  attitudes, perspectives on their use of the n810

My own theory, so far unproven is that a truly successful IT product 
should be able to take away market share from the smartphone market, 
allowing the user to replace their smartphone with a less powerful 
handset that supports voice + data (as a modem) + bluetooth + a very 
strong battery and which for the most part, stays in the user's pocket.

Perhaps the forthcoming G4 of the IT, with its HSDPA support, if and 
when it is released, will eliminate the need for the handset altogether 
for those intrepid enough to replace their GSM voice provider with a 
provider of SIP trunking services. Those of us, in the U.S. for 
example,  who use CDMA/EVDO networks for our mobile service will either 
have to switch to a mobile service provider that supports HSDPA or, 
utilize the bluetooth interface on the G4 IT to our CDMA/EVDO mobile 
phone, and live with the vestigial (for this particular use case) HSDPA 
radio.



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John Holmblad

 

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Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote:
> John Holmblad a écrit :
>> Jean-Chirstian,
>>
>> you have put into words a good operational definition of the mass 
>> market for the context of this discussion, that is:
>>
>>"...people that don't have some technical orientation"
>>
>> Like many companies, Nokia seems to have been fooled into thinking 
>> that the mass market as one that DOES have a technical orientation. 
>> Apple, a very experienced marketing as well as technology company 
>> does not make this mistake.
>>
>> I for one would like to see Apple acquire Nokia. That would be a 
>> great combination. Unfortunately, and in direct contrast to Cisco,  
>> Apple does not do acquisitions  and they have never been good at it.
>
> I was not talking about Apple. Nokia make a hug number of phone that 
> are buy by people without technical orientation. Theres phones are 
> easy to use and the interface is not frustrating as is the current 
> interface of too many applications of the tablet. Nokia, as a company, 
> can do a super tablet product, but this need strategic decision from 
> the top of the company to put the most skilled QA and interface 
> engineering resources there have to work with the current team.
>
> I think this is the good time to do so. Now the hardware and the 
> infrastructure of the tablet is mature enough. The market too.
>
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Re: Nokia device usage

[John Holmblad]

Jean-Chirstian,

you have put into words a good operational definition of the mass market 
for the context of this discussion, that is:

"...people that don't have some technical orientation"

Like many companies, Nokia seems to have been fooled into thinking that 
the mass market as one that DOES have a technical orientation. Apple, a 
very experienced marketing as well as technology company does not make 
this mistake.

I for one would like to see Apple acquire Nokia. That would be a great 
combination. Unfortunately, and in direct contrast to Cisco,  Apple does 
not do acquisitions  and they have never been good at it.


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Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote:
> Ognen Duzlevski a écrit :
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am curious to find out what people use their Nokias for. If anyone 
>> could share their usage patterns, it would be appreciated.
>> 
>
> Hello,
>
> I own a N770. a N800 and a N810. I use a Nokia 6600 Slide for call, SMS, 
> photo, agenda and modem. I hope that the next internet Tablet will make 
> the use of the phone obsolete. I alway carry the N810 with me. My usage 
> is for:
>
> - Browsing the Internet, even if the amount of ads in more and more 
> sites make it barely usable. I found hard to open a link in a new tab (I 
> like to do so). Script execution should be stoppable easily from the 
> interface because some site abuse of it and it's painful to wait the 
> dialog that propose to stop the script. On reasonable sites, it work 
> very well and make it a far more useful tool than the browsers of the phone.
>
> - Playing music. One of the task that work the best.
>
> - Taking notes using Maemopad+. I found the concept useful but need more 
> work. Saving more than a dozen of nodes are too slow. I like the way it 
> can save the result into HTML page.
>
> - Connecting to other computers with SSH to make remote work. For me 
> this is the most productive feature of the N810. Having a xterm by 
> default is sweet.
>
> - Reading PDF document. Very good result. I suggest to keep the last 
> horizontal position of the page when passing one page to an other in 
> zoom mode, because many documents have small font and large space on the 
> left of the text.
>
> - I use MaemoMapper with the internet GPS when I don't have a bluetooth 
> GPS with me. The result with the internal GPS is very frustrating 
> comparing to the result with the external one in the same condition. 
> Switching from the external to the internal GPS is absolutely a 
> nightmare (sometime it work only after a full reboot). Using real map is 
>   an excellent feature of MaemoMapper with his ability to store them for 
> reuse. I never success using point of interest. The auto-center mode is 
> too easily to disable compared to to operation the enable it (require 
> the menu or the keyboard). The GPS fix should be indicated into the GPS 
> info box instead of a system message, because it can stay for long time 
> (especially with the internal GPS). The AGPS should work out of the box.
>
> - Programming some python script. Sadly, i found no small code editor 
> that is comfortable in text mode (vi is ok, but I am not a big fan of 
> it). Too many of them use the CTRL key that it so painful to use, even 
> with the toolbar in the xterm. I tested pygtkeditor but found it too 
> slow as file get bigger. I hope that one day it would be possible to 
> have a native GCC on the tablet, so I could program in C.
>
> - Transfer files from my phone using bluetooth. This work great and is 
> very useful.
>
> - Transfer file with my computer using bluetooth work, but file browsing 
> is not available. This require to use rsync or the SD card. I have 
> tested to use the N810 as a USB storage, but I ended too often with a 
> corrupted file system, so I don't use this feature any more.
>
> - Showing photos to others. This work and the images are superb thank to 
> the quality of the screen. The default application is half finished. I 
> prefer to use Quiver.
>
> - Making Skype call. I found it 

Re: Nokia device usage

[John Holmblad]

Andrew,

Mark is on to something here and it has everything to do with how a 
company shapes consumer perception of its product over a period of time 
as the product is deployed into the market.

The fact is, that, when is comes to marketing, few corporations can be 
accused of intellectual honesty about their products 100% of the time. 
Nokia is no exception, and certainly not a paragon of perfection in this 
respect.

I have to agree with Mark that, implicitly, Nokia misleads the public to 
the extent that it markets the IT's along side of its other mass market 
mobile phone devices if, in fact, the IT's are a work in progress (I 
agree, they are, unfortunately)  that will take 5 generations  and a few 
more years to get the product ready for the mass market.

Nokia management might want to consider  to either

a) cut loose the exec who made the arrogant assertion, foot-in-mouth
style that it will take Nokia 5 generations to have a mass market
ready product (as if we are dealing with some sort of rocket science
here, that takes years to get it right, which we are not),

or, if Nokia management in fact,  agrees with the truth of that
assertion, then

b) cut loose the exec who approved the mass market oriented www
content for the IT's in the first place


Setting the issue of the Nokia exec's own assertion of  IT mass market 
un-readiness aside for the moment, I found some data from Amazon.com in 
favor of the IT consumer perceived quality (where quality is measured by 
whether or not the product meets the customer's expectations) among 
actual and, most assuredly,  non-mass market users (lets call them early 
adopters/techno-pioneers).

Here are the data

N800

4 stars out of 5 with a sample size of 172

N810

4 stars out of 5 with a sample size of 93

I would say 4 out of 5 is a good score with some room for improvement.


On the other hand I offer the following empirical observations that 
suggests that even if the Nokia marketing www site/literature for the IT 
is NOT misleading, then, at least, it has failed, big time,  to ignite 
the market for the IT, in my geographic area at least.

This is an area with over 1 million people of all levels of
social/business/economic standing who carry all sorts of mobile
devices, and who have done so for a long time. We even have a
President who is local and who serves as a priceless marketing icon
for RIM/Blackberry at no cost to RIM.

Over a period of three years, I can count on one finger the number
of individuals besides myself that I have actually seen (not in a
video, e.g. XOHM WIMAX Launch) carrying/using an IT, and that one
person I did see, I know, for sure, is a technogeek/techno-pioneer,
and not your average user.

Just today I introduced the N800 IT to yet another  tech savvy
individual who asked me "what is that thing you have?"


The takeaway from this observation is that, in this geographic market, 
at least, the consumer "ain't buying" the benefits that Nokia has 
asserted for the IT product family. Time to bring on Gen4 and Gen5 I 
guess. Maybe by the time WIMAX and/or LTE are widely deployed in the 
world's mobile infrastructures the IT will catch up to the market. Nokia 
shareholders must hope so.


Best Regards,

 

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Andrew Flegg wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Mark  wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Andrew Flegg  wrote:
>> 
>>> For all their flaws, I'm not aware of Nokia saying you could do something
>>> which you actually couldn't
>>>   
>> The fundamental problem is that you are *deliberately* unaware because
>> you refuse to accept reality. Like G.W. Bush and a slew of others, no
>> amount of obvious fact will deter you from believing what you want to
>> believe.
>> 
>
> I'm trying to turn a flaming trollfest into something more
> constructive. Instead of calling me names, can you actually respond to
> my question: what has Nokia advertised that you can do on the device,
> that you can only do by opening X Terminal, fiddling with
> configuration files etc?
>
> The device may be well suited to hackers, but - as far as I can tell -
> it meets its stated goals adequately without having to resort to such
> things. A number of times in this thread, people have said "you have
> to be a hacker to do anything with it and Nokia don't advertise that".
> What did Nokia advertise that you've got to be a hacker to do?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
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Re: Nokia device usage

[John Holmblad]

Julius,

I have been meaning to look into rsync and based on your input I will do 
so to see if that solves the problem I had with file transfer back to 
my  laptop, which runs Windows Server 2000 in dual boot mode (the flip 
side of the dual boot config is RHEL).

Although the laptop os a ~10 year old IBM Thinkpad, The bluetooth is 
provisioned using a Kensington bluetooth 2.0 USB dongle. The software 
and drivers, although they are spec'd for Windows XP, seem to install 
just fine on Server 2000 without any apparent damage to the Windows 
registry. This software exposes  a very rich set of bluetooth service 
capabilities. In fact , I can, while the laptop  is tethered to  my 
mobile phone for cDMA/EVDO access to the Internet, also perform 
bluetooth file transfers to the n800 without killing off the 
Laptop<=>Mobile phone connection. I discovered this by accident.

I have to say that I was surprised and impressed to learn that the 
Bluetooth 2.1 specification is over 1400 pages and now that I see the 
range of capabilities that the Kensington Bluetooth software provides 
with a version 2.0 device,  I better understand why the spec is so lengthy.

In a way it surprises me how the addition of a small device like this (I 
don't recall paying much for it) has allowed me to extend the life of a 
~10 year old laptop, whose foremost virtue beyond its basic reliability 
was, is, and will always be, its keyboard. I just wish the batteries 
lasted as long as the rest of the hardware.

Best Regards,

 

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Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
> John,
> for file transfer nothing beats rsync. It works like a charm on
> just about any platform, N8x0 included.
> julius
>
> On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, John Holmblad wrote:
>
>   
>> Ognen,
>>
>> thanks for sharing your perspective.
>>
>> After several years I found an N800 app that provides real, practical,
>> weekly value to me . It is the multilist application. In fact, I even
>> considered selling N800's with this application preinstalled for end users.
>>
>> I have tested Skype and it works but I normally use my mobile phone for
>> voice.
>>
>> I have, when the need arose, done online banking using the N800/Diablo
>> www browser even though my bank's www site warns me that the browser is
>> not really compatible with its www site.
>>
>> I have also tested the apps that provide IP TV feeds which seem to work
>> ok with DSL to the Internet. I have not tested these apps over CDMA/eVDO
>> bandwidth however. I suspect that they would be very jerky on EVDO but I
>> could be wrong.
>>
>> I have also used clawsmail for email with some success although the
>> Clawsmail app interface is more complicated than it needs to be for
>> everyday use.
>>
>> One really good thing about the IT is how easily it tethers via
>> bluetooth to my mobile phone which has CDMA/EVDO service.
>>
>> Recently because I have started working with Python, I have had occasion
>> to perform file transfers from my Windows based PC's to the N800,
>> again, using bluetooth and it works very well. I have not yet had
>> success in moving files in the opposite direction but I believe that has
>> everything to do with Windows NTFS file permissions and nothing to do
>> with the Bluetooth stack in the N800.
>>
>> I believe that, so far, the Internet Tablets have failed to provide a
>> sufficient "constellation of benefits" to motivate consumer or business
>> users toward the device at the offered price versus other products on
>> the market and, unfortunately, that performance-benefits/price gap seems
>> to be widening, not closing, at least here in the U.S.
>>
>> I continue to believe that the IT is an excellent hw/sw platform
>> (perhaps even he best out there)  however, end users don't purchase
>> platforms, they purchase product value which, in the current economic
>> environment, becomes ever more critical in order to justify a product
>> purchase decision.
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> John Holmblad
>>
>>  Acadia Secure Networks, LLC
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Ognen Duzlevski wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am curious to find out what people use their Nokias for. If anyone
>>> could share their usage patterns, it would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> I bought an N800 thinking that it was a very cool gadget (which it seems
>>> to be). However, I am having trouble justifying the expense to myself,
>>> even after a year of owning the thing. Here is my list of complaints:
>>>
>>> It is too slow w

Re: Nokia device usage

[John Holmblad]

Ognen,

thanks for sharing your perspective.

After several years I found an N800 app that provides real, practical, 
weekly value to me . It is the multilist application. In fact, I even 
considered selling N800's with this application preinstalled for end users.

I have tested Skype and it works but I normally use my mobile phone for 
voice.

I have, when the need arose, done online banking using the N800/Diablo 
www browser even though my bank's www site warns me that the browser is 
not really compatible with its www site.

I have also tested the apps that provide IP TV feeds which seem to work 
ok with DSL to the Internet. I have not tested these apps over CDMA/eVDO 
bandwidth however. I suspect that they would be very jerky on EVDO but I 
could be wrong.

I have also used clawsmail for email with some success although the 
Clawsmail app interface is more complicated than it needs to be for 
everyday use.

One really good thing about the IT is how easily it tethers via 
bluetooth to my mobile phone which has CDMA/EVDO service.

Recently because I have started working with Python, I have had occasion 
to perform file transfers from my Windows based PC's to the N800,  
again, using bluetooth and it works very well. I have not yet had 
success in moving files in the opposite direction but I believe that has 
everything to do with Windows NTFS file permissions and nothing to do 
with the Bluetooth stack in the N800.

I believe that, so far, the Internet Tablets have failed to provide a 
sufficient "constellation of benefits" to motivate consumer or business 
users toward the device at the offered price versus other products on 
the market and, unfortunately, that performance-benefits/price gap seems 
to be widening, not closing, at least here in the U.S.

I continue to believe that the IT is an excellent hw/sw platform 
(perhaps even he best out there)  however, end users don't purchase 
platforms, they purchase product value which, in the current economic 
environment, becomes ever more critical in order to justify a product 
purchase decision.


Best Regards,

 

John Holmblad

 Acadia Secure Networks, LLC





Ognen Duzlevski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am curious to find out what people use their Nokias for. If anyone 
> could share their usage patterns, it would be appreciated.
>
> I bought an N800 thinking that it was a very cool gadget (which it seems 
> to be). However, I am having trouble justifying the expense to myself, 
> even after a year of owning the thing. Here is my list of complaints:
>
> It is too slow when browsing the net (compared to, for example, my Asus 
> EEE or my laptop). Then I thought I would use it as a glorified GPS unit 
> so I spent more money and bought a bluetooth GPS unit for it. However, I 
> have never been able to make Maemo Mapper really act in a user-friendly 
> way. First off, as soon as you touch the screen (even by accident), the 
> lead disappears and you have to set it up again (here is the problem: I 
> am driving and the unit shuts off the screen to conserve power - when I 
> need the screen, I touch it but then I loose the lead and it can also 
> zoom in on another portion of the map - naturally I don't have the 
> freedom to play with the menus and re-set everything up since I am 
> driving!). Maps are also an issue, if I decide to download too many zoom 
> levels, the maps are too large and Maemo Mapper dies processing them. 
> Next, I tried Canola: it looks very pretty but the user interface is 
> puzzling to me. I have tried to tell it where to look for videos or 
> music but it was impossible to actually do so. Making a playlist was 
> also difficult for me. Thus, I gave up. Next, Skype: I have tried to 
> have a phone call or two over wireless, but with mixed luck, sometimes 
> too slow, sometimes alright.
>
> Finally, the usage I really bought the unit for was to connect to my 
> lego mindstorms NXT unit via bluetooth and control it from the N800. I 
> have yet to have success in pairing the devices (to be fair, the problem 
> is probably with the NXT).
>
> So, all in all, what do people use their Nokias for and are they happy 
> with the overall usability of the apps and their documentation? Or am I 
> just being lazy and giving up easily? It seems to me, I would have been 
> better off waiting for an Android based phone, for example.
>
> Thanks,
> OD
>
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Re: Nokia device usage

[John Holmblad]

Gary,

thanks for sharing that. I was not aware of the Nokia bet labs www 
pages/site

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Gary wrote:
> Ognen Duzlevski wrote:
>   
>> My N800 boots from a 16Gb SD card and I have plenty of space.
>> 
>
> Have you increased your swap size yet?
> Settings -> Control Panel -> Memory -> Virtual
>
> I use mine for the Internet radio streaming, VPN client, ssh client, and
> the occasional game.
>
> Re transcoding video, have you tried Nokia's own app?
> http://www.nokia.com/A4688059
>
> q.v. http://wiki.maemo.org/Video_encoding
>
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Re: Amazon Shopping App

[John Holmblad]

Jonathan,


I would guess that the value of apps like shopsavvy is going to grow 
only as fast as the number of items in the barcode database.

It also appears that the developer of the CompareEverywhere (formerly 
Andriod Scan) app is working on enhancements to that app as well:

http://compare-everywhere.com/

It would appear that Jeff Sharkey, the app author is (or was) also an 
N810 user.


http://www.jsharkey.org/blog/2008/05/10/winner-of-google-developer-challenge/

   

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> you'll probably like this if you've not seen it on the Turks -
> http://waxy.org/2008/11/the_faces_of_mechanical_turk/
>
> Shopsavvy is very cool.  I scanned a few things in Target and it
> showed me pricing and location of stores nearby.  Super quick even on
> EDGE which is all TMO was kind enough to implement in the 'burbs
>
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[John Holmblad]

All,

fyi. While doing some shopping at Amazon.com I came across the following 
new App for the Iphone:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000291661


I wonder if it can find/read bar codes in the images?

It would seem that Amazon would have no problem with an open source 
version of this App if, in fact, it is not already opensource. 

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[Fwd: Apple, iPhone and iTunes - Impacts on the Wireless World]

[John Holmblad]

All,

fyi. Here is the url to the www page for this Newsletter:

http://www.cartagena-capital.com/2009-01-newsletter.html


The Newsletter includes some mention of Nokia's recent moves, but 
nothing specific regarding the Internet Tablet.


Best Regards,


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Subject: Apple, iPhone and iTunes - Impacts on the Wireless World
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:47:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Dr. Mehmet Unsoy

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Apple, iPhone and iTunes ? Impacts on the Wireless World
by Dr. Mehmet Unsoy

Happy New Year!

While the world is in the midst of major economic problems, it is good 
to start the New Year with some positive stories. I believe Apple has 
made and continues to make significant contributions to the development 
of the wireless industry. This is acknowledged by partners and 
competitors alike.

After the less than stellar MacWorld 2009 in San Francisco earlier this 
month, and in particular, after Steve Jobs' announcement of taking a 
6-month medical leave of absence, Apple's stock took some losses. 
However, this week Apple announced their 2009 Q1 results, with record 
quarterly revenue of over $10 billion and record quarterly net profit of 
$1.6 billion. Thus, Apple's future looks as bright as ever, and their 
flagship wireless product, 3G iPhone as well as iPhone apps on iTunes 
will continue to have a huge positive impact on the global mobile market.

You may recall that 3G iPhone was launched globally on July 11th, 2008. 
Within the first 6 months, around 12 million 3G iPhones have been sold, 
with significant majority in the U.S., to AT&T subscribers. However, as 
of now, iPhone is available in over 80 countries, through more than 100 
mobile operators. So, it truly is a global product.

Smartphones are the most important handset category to observe in the 
developed mobile markets. The features of 3G iPhone in particular are 
having major impacts on the direction of the smart phones. The 
multi-touch screen of iPhone has revolutionized not just the handset 
screen market, but has also triggered a major momentum towards touch 
screens for all sizes of display. We are experiencing a dramatic change 
in behavior: when you see any type of screen in your daily life, you 
will first ?touch? it, and if it does not respond, you may anticipate 
that there is something wrong with that screen! Bottom line is, we will 
see some new innovations, cost reductions, and new applications around 
?touch screens? in coming months / years. It is not outrageous to 
predict that non-touch screens may go the way of black & white screens!

On 3G iPhones, we have both an all-you-can-eat 3G mobile Internet 
flat-rate and Wi-Fi connectivity. This combination has significantly 
increased mobile Internet usage in the last 6 months, especially in the 
U.S. As of today, about 50% of all mobile Internet access in the U.S. is 
through a 3G iPhone, including the use of it through Wi-Fi access. 
Browsers on other smartphones including BlackBerry and Windows Mobile 
have followed suit and beefed up their feature sets and capabilities 
recently. So much so that we now have a serious debate as to whether it 
will be the browsers that will win the battle of mobile content, or the 
downloaded mobile apps. It is interesting that browsers on handsets may 
owe their recent success to Wi-Fi capability on the handset! In fact, 
Apple may be approving 3rd party browsers for iPhone, but this may have 
some strings attached!

The combination of assisted GPS, large screen and various mapping & 
navigational apps have made 3G iPhone one of the most exciting personal 
navigation devices (PND). This is not only triggering various other 
mobile devices to take on the PND role (both on-vehicle and pedestrian), 
but also opening up numerous location-based retail and advertising 
services, creating significant excitement and an effective value 
proposition around LBS. Maybe, after waiting for so many years, LBS is 
finally here, and iPhone has been a major enabler for this market.

One of the major frustrations with 3G iPhone has been the battery or 
power management. It is fair to say that if you use most of the features 
of iPhone, you may have to charge it multiple times during the day. 
Alternatively some important features such as 3G, GPS or Wi-Fi may have 
to be turned-off to conserve battery, which defeats the purpose of 
iPhone. However, frustration with the iPhone battery has enabled various 
innovations around back-up batteries, new battery technologies and power 
management solutions.

In fact, there is hope that iPhone 3.0 (which is rumored to be targeted 
for June or July 2009) may have some improvements in power management. 
Other rumors for iPhone 3.0 include 3D graphics, with the use of 
quad-core CPU, offering an excellent platform f

Re: Cisco.Webex support on Iphone Why not also on N800/N810

[John Holmblad]

Matt,

I don't own an iphone so I don't have the means to test/verify your 
perception about webex on a small screen. I have to believe, however, 
that Cisco would not have invested  the time and effort to make a 
no-cost iphone client available if they did not themselves conclude that 
such a client was not just useable but useful as well.


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Matt Emson wrote:
> Java is a large install on most platforms. 12mb actually seems quite 
> small to me.
>
> I can't imagine Webex being pleasant on any screen as small as the 
> N8x00 or iPhone.
>
> M
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 20 Jan 2009, at 00:29, John Holmblad 
>  wrote:
>
>> Gary,
>>
>> thanks for sharing the Jalimo links. I was going to install it to try it
>> out but I balked once I saw that the download is more than 12 mb!
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> John Holmblad
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Gary wrote:
>>> Jalimo has been installable since Chinook but I don't know if it has 
>>> any
>>> kind of browser plug-in yet...
>>>
>>> http://wiki.evolvis.org/jalimo/index.php/Maemo
>>> http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Getting_started_with_Java_on_maemo 
>>>
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Re: Cisco.Webex support on Iphone Why not also on N800/N810

[John Holmblad]

Gary,

thanks for sharing the Jalimo links. I was going to install it to try it 
out but I balked once I saw that the download is more than 12 mb!

Best Regards,

 

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Gary wrote:
> Jalimo has been installable since Chinook but I don't know if it has any
> kind of browser plug-in yet...
>
> http://wiki.evolvis.org/jalimo/index.php/Maemo
> http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Getting_started_with_Java_on_maemo
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Cisco.Webex support on Iphone Why not also on N800/N810

[John Holmblad]

All,

in my still unrealized quest to "lose the laptop" and, since owning my 
N800 for the last two years, I have wanted to be able to use it to 
participate in www conference calls/wwwcasts, etc but without much 
success at all. Most of the www conferences  I have attended/been 
invited to have been using either Cisco/Webex or Microsoft Livemeeting, 
both of which have worked quite well for me on laptop and desktop computers.

Cisco, has wisely come to the realization that the Iphone has found 
traction in the business market and so they have announced  a Free webex 
client that installs on the Iphone.


http://www.iphonebuzz.com/cisco-brings-conferencing-to-the-iphone-155758.php

Maybe Nokia should do a deal with Cisco/Webex to get a version of this 
client on the N800/N810.

The Microsoft LiveMeeting webaccess client runs as a JAVA app and is 
spec'ed to run on Windows XP/Vista OS with Firefox or Apple OS with 
Safari. However there is no mention of whether or not it will work on 
Firefox on Linux. I did some further research to learn that the version 
of the Java VM that is compatible with the Windows/Firefox version is 
Sun®  1.5.11, 1.6.x.

Is Nokia ever going to make Java support standard on the Internet Tablets?


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KMplayer and CNN Breaking News

[John Holmblad]

All,

fyi. As soon as I received the CNN email alert about the unfolding 
events in NYC regarding the US Airways Airbus that landed in the water, 
I fired up KM player, pointed it at a CNN feed and and I can say that 
the player performed with excellence. All passengers and crew appear to 
have been rescued thanks to the truly heroic effort by the crew to land 
the aircraft on the water in one piece and those on nearby watercraft 
who came to rescue/unload passengers before the plane started sinking 
into the frigid waters of the Hudson River.


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Re: N810 with GSM radio

[John Holmblad]

Jonathan,

in fact, given the ease with which the N800N810 can be tethered to an 
EVDO or HSDPA capable mobile handset, my own biggest complaint has been 
with my electron "guzzling" mobile phone which lasts all of ~20 minutes 
when running with the EVDO turned on and tethered to the N810.

Clearly it would be better to carry only one piece of electronics vs two 
but, if I can solve this power consumption problem by upgrading to a new 
mobile handset I will be satisfied with a 2 device solution.

Maybe there is a market for a fairly simple  layer 1 pocket device 
(evdo/hsdpa/LTE/WIMAX modem + a big battery) that also supports 
bluetooth for tethering to whatever smart device the user has on hand.


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Jonathan Greene wrote:
> There's certainly been debate on the topic as some people prefer the 
> option rather than being forced to have it but I would love it.  An 
> always-on pocket computer is exactly what I want ... and have wanted 
> for a long time.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 3:13 PM, fcassia  <mailto:fcas...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I can't believe Nokia is so dumb. The software stack in the N800 /
> N810 is stable, proven, and time-tested.
>
> So why can't they release a N810 with embedded GSM/EDGE radio? All
> that is needed is a phone dialer applet.
>
> Of course, a "premium" version could add 3G, but for me to check GMail
> on the go, EDGE is just fine.
>
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Re: N810 with GSM radio

[John Holmblad]

Wayne,

thanks for reminding me of a word, "homologation", that I have not used 
for a long time.  Having said that, and, given that there is a WIMAX 
version of the N810 I don't see an inherent technical or cost reason why 
there could not also be a version with a 2g/3g radio (GSM/HSDPA, or 
CDMA/EVDO) as well.

I am disappointed that Clear (the Sprint/Clearwire/Others WIMAX venture) 
appears to be slowing down its US rollout strategy for its WIMAX based 
service offering. I was hoping that the Nokia N810 WIMAX edition could 
find a place in this market as a multiuse (voice + data device) before 
the arrival of LTE based 4g solutions from Verizon Wireless and others.

Intel's  write-down of its 1b+ investment in Clear. announced this week, 
driven by macroeconomic market conditions (everything is down), as 
opposed to diminished expectations of the Intel management team for 
future returns from Clear, does not help market perceptions of WIMAX and 
associated products and services.


1. 
http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=170164&f_src=unstrung_section_86



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Wayne Fiori wrote:
> It would make the device far too expensive for its market. The cogs on
> the radio device would add to the base cost. There would be different
> European and American model -- each market uses different frequencies
> for GSM/EDGE. That homologation for manufacturing would add additional
> costs. The repair depot logistics would change as well. There would be
> real FCC (and the equivalents) regulatory requirements to be met.
> Worse, you would need to purchase service from a mobile phone
> provider.
>
> At that point the cost increases would push customers to an iPhone or
> similar smart phone.
>
> IMO, the best advantage that the tablets have is being free of the
> entanglement mobile phone service providers.
> --
> =W
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:13 PM, fcassia  wrote:
>   
>> I can't believe Nokia is so dumb. The software stack in the N800 /
>> N810 is stable, proven, and time-tested.
>>
>> So why can't they release a N810 with embedded GSM/EDGE radio? All
>> that is needed is a phone dialer applet.
>>
>> Of course, a "premium" version could add 3G, but for me to check GMail
>> on the go, EDGE is just fine.
>>
>> Thoughts? Comments? Expletives?
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Re: N*x0 app similar to Splashshopper?

[John Holmblad]

All,

I was able to install and configure multilist without difficulty on my 
N800 with the latest OS2008 updates. It works great so far. Working from 
my PC using tightvnc  made it a lot easier to populate the lists that I 
created.


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John Holmblad wrote:
> All,
>
> I was invited to try a mobile app called Splashshopper on my Windows 
> Mobile handset. The app looks fairly straightforward (basically a 
> structured list manager) and I thought there might a similar app that 
> runs on the N8x0.
>
> If anyone knows of such a similar app I would appreciate hearing about 
> it.  Here, fyi, is the url to the www page for the Splashshopper appL
>
> http://www.splashdata.com/splashshopper/
>
>
> Clearly this app must be quiet useful in order to command a retail price 
> of $29.95 US.
>
>
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N*x0 app similar to Splashshopper?

[John Holmblad]

All,

I was invited to try a mobile app called Splashshopper on my Windows 
Mobile handset. The app looks fairly straightforward (basically a 
structured list manager) and I thought there might a similar app that 
runs on the N8x0.

If anyone knows of such a similar app I would appreciate hearing about 
it.  Here, fyi, is the url to the www page for the Splashshopper appL

http://www.splashdata.com/splashshopper/


Clearly this app must be quiet useful in order to command a retail price 
of $29.95 US.



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Re: Itouch v N8x0

[John Holmblad]

Fred,

I see that there is a Palm version of the Epocrates software. Thus, it 
might be possible to run the Epocrates software on the N800/N810 by 
first installing the N800/N810 Garnet VM for the Palm OS and running 
Epocrates inside of that VM.


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lakestevensdental wrote:
> Rick Bilonick wrote:
>   
>> I could not agree more! I wouldn't buy a car from a manufacturer that
>> forced me to buy batteries, tires, service, etc. from it.
>> 
> Actually, the Apple app store is full of software from a variety of 
> sources -- many free, many not.  Like Maemo, it's a central clearing 
> house for software that is deemed suitable for the device of interest. 
>
> For example, (and one of my peeves about the n800), the App Store has a 
> program/service called Epocrates for medical folks to use to check on 
> drugs, interactions and more.  There's a free download for the Ipod 
> Touch, as well as a paid advanced service/program from the same folks. 
> The same software is available for Blackberries and several other 
> internet phone devices.   However, there has NOT been a port to the n8x0 
> series so far as I can tell.  This software is self-contained so it 
> works with and without wifi connection.   You can get a wifi Epocrates 
> on the n800 in the browser, but you can't use it off the net as the data 
> is not resident on the device -- at least so far as I can determine. 
>
> Bottomline, you can yell and scream all you want about open source 
> 'free' software.  However, there is something to be said for the 
> increased diversity of having both.  
>
> Always, Fred C
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What are the new features and improvements in the latest upgrade to OS2008?

[John Holmblad]

All,

what is the url to the www page that documents the new features and 
improvements that are contained in the latest upgrade to OS2008? I 
cannot seem to find anything at the Nokia www site for OS2008.
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Free42 Still not Installing on N800/OS2008

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All,

does anyone have insights into why the Free42 app, which is listed at 
the maemo.org/downloads www site as available for download/install, 
still does not install on an N800 running OS2008?


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[Fwd: WCA's 4G Global Update: October 31, 2008]

[John Holmblad]

All,

fyi. From the 4G global Update, below:

> *_XOHM Application Developer Program Features Open Source
> Connection Manager_*
>
> XOHM has launched an application developer program featuring an
> online community providing developers with the tools and required
> processes to create and introduce products for XOHM subscribers.
> In an effort to save device-to-connection manager integration time
> and money, XOHM worked with chipset, device and connection manager
> OEM’s to create a common Connection Manager Application
> Programming Interface (API), which has been submitted to the WiMAX
> Forum for adoption. The open source connection manager is being
> written in Java and is cross platform. Currently, work is being
> done on Windows, OS X and Linux. The XOHM Developer Program is a
> full Web 2.0 community. Blogs and discussion forums are set up and
> being used now to address questions about the connection manager.
> Register now <http://developer.xohm.com/community/login.jspa>,
> free of cost, to join the online community. Once registered, more
> information on connection manager is available online
> 
> <http://developer.xohm.com/community/community/technical_information/connection_manager>.

Does this imply that the N810 WIMAX edition will eventually be modified 
to support Java?

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//

_Today’s Headlines __October 31,__ 2008___

**_U.K.__ Regulator Publishes 2.6 GHz Spectrum Award Update_**

**U.K. regulator Ofcom has issued another update on progress towards its 
spectrum auction in the 2.6 GHz and 2010 MHz bands, this time stating 
that all the legal action should be finished off by February next year, 
allowing the regulator to set an application date for late March 2009. 
The spectrum concerned comes in three chunks. Mobile operators T-Mobile 
and O2 are working on delaying action, arguing that the auction 
shouldn't take place until a decision on 900 MHz has been made, 
coincidentally preventing anyone from buying up the frequencies and 
deploying WiMAX or similar technologies, reported The Register. 
It continued: Ofcom's opinion has always been that the spectrum should 
be sold off as quickly as possible, and on a technology-neutral basis, 
so companies can start deploying wireless services to compete with the 
incumbents. Those incumbents, however, might bid for some spectrum 
themselves, but argue they can't decide until they know what's going on 
with 900 MHz, which is currently limited by license to GSM 2G 
technologies. That license could be updated to allow 3 or 4G 
technologies. Details 
<http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radiocomms/spectrumawards/awardspending/award_2010/update311008/>.**

** **

*_XOHM Application Developer Program Features Open Source Connection 
Manager_*

XOHM has launched an application developer program featuring an online 
community providing developers with the tools and required processes to 
create and introduce products for XOHM subscribers. In an effort to save 
device-to-connection manager integration time and money, XOHM worked 
with chipset, device and connection manager OEM’s to create a common 
Connection Manager Application Programming Interface (API), which has 
been submitted to the WiMAX Forum for adoption. The open source 
connection manager is being written in Java and is cross platform. 
Currently, work is being done on Windows, OS X and Linux. The XOHM 
Developer Program is a full Web 2.0 community. Blogs and discussion 
forums are set up and being used now to address questions about the 
connection manager. Register now 
<http://developer.xohm.com/community/login.jspa>, free of cost, to join 
the online community. Once registered, more information on connection 
manager is available online 
<http://developer.xohm.com/community/community/technical_information/connection_manager>.

*_ERF Wireless Adopts WiMAX Strategy for Expansion of WISP and Oil & Gas 
Markets_*

ERF Wireless, a leading provider of enterprise-class wireless and 
broadband products and services, obtained a nationwide license for 
operation in the 3.65 GHz WiMAX band and is partnering with entities 
that will make additional licensed spectrum available in the 2.5 GHz 
band, according to a company press release 
<http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ERF-Wireless-Adopts-WiMax-Strategy/story.aspx?guid=%7b422BD6F2-F777-4558-86A3-CA6C363094FA%7d>.
 
“We've been monitoring the progress of WiMAX technology for some time, 
and until now we've felt that the cost and maturity of the techn

Re: What to do

[John Holmblad]

Kevin,

does that install an instance of Debian LInux as a virtual machine on 
OS2008 or does it in fact replace OS2008 altogether?


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Kevin T. Neely wrote:
> Like this?
> http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24272
>
> K
>
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Dean Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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>
> Hi
> I recently got given a Dell axim x51v that does the same job as my 770
> but im thinking of selling them both and getting an iPhone. I wanna
> hack it to run debian yet im not thinking its possible. I've gone a
> bit debian crazy atm lol. I know maemo is based on debian yet i want
> to know if it is possible just 2 run debian on it? If i can i might
> not sell it. I don't like the axim think it has more compatibility
> issues than the 770. Any recommendations would be useful thanks in
> advance.
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Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?)

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Quim,

and of course  let us allow that those 1 or 2 could include girls as 
well as guys.


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Quim Gil wrote:
> ext Andrea Grandi wrote:
>   
>> I still don't know if I can propose an application that is not started yet.
>> 
>
> What counts is whether it can be a complete product when Maemo 5 is
> released. The beta SDK is expected to be available on March-May, do your
> math.
>
> What also counts is a developer or a team behind that you can trust. 12
> totally unknown developers with a great and amazing idea count probably
> less that 1-2 guys known for developing A, B, C proposing something
> still cool but doable.
>
> This was discussed already at
> http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2008-October/001143.html
>
> You might want also have a look at the rest of the thread starting at
> http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2008-October/thread.html#1090
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Re: Fennec vs MicroB

[John Holmblad]

Quim,

thanks for sharing the facts of that time line.


In my experience R&D projects that do not reach the "commercial success" 
stage of their life cycle for whatever reason, can, nonetheless,  
produce downstream benefits for the "investing" corporation.  Until I 
read this discussion thread I was not aware that Nokia had R&D  "skin in 
the game" on Minimo.

If The ~6.5x performance gain of Fennec over Microb as asserted in the 
Aris Technica article holds as this product moves to production then I 
will vote with my "install apps" button soon thereafter. Watching 
hourglass icons flip over, metronome icons tick, and drum icons drum, 
just reminds me of the unnecessary seconds of useful life that are 
squandered while waiting for hopeful useful content to appear in a 
browser window.


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Quim Gil wrote:
> ext Fernando Cassia wrote:
>   
>> I do remember about the Nokia funding. Yeah it made very little sense
>> to fund Mozilla then choose Opera. But corporations do those things...
>> I'm getting used to it.
>> 
>
> Indeed, corporations better invest in research on many interesting
> technologies available in order to keep and grow their competence.
>
> And in fact the timeline went more like this:
>
> Nokia and Opera Software had cooperated since 2000 and Nokia devices
> were shipped with Opera browsers at least in 2003 already. [1]
>
> The support the Minimo project was announced in 2004 [2] but never
> resulted as such in a commercial quality product.
>
> During 2005, Nokia's S60 browser development team ported WebKit to the
> S60 platform. [3]
>
> In 2007 the Maemo team released the first Mozilla based browser shipped
> in a commercial mobile device. [4]
>
> In 2008 Mozilla started the Fennec releases using Maemo as primary
> testing platform. [5]
>
> [1] http://www.aftenposten.no/english/business/article754860.ece
> [2] http://news.cnet.com/Nokia-cash-boosts-Mozilla/2100-7344_3-5236730.html
> [3] http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/S60Webkit
> [4] http://browser.garage.maemo.org/news/1/
> [5]
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080409-first-look-mozilla-fennec-targets-handheld-browser-market.html
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Re: Good News - WIFI NOT Borked after Update

[John Holmblad]

All,

pursuant to my comment, 

> Now that the 
> upgrade seems to have worked, and the 802.11 interface is still 
> operative, I will go back and see if the upgrade somehow "fixed" (we all 
> know that such fixing CAN happen even when it is not an announced part 
> of a given upgrade) what ever caused the borking of the backup/restore 
> utility.


I went back and tested backup/restore and, lo and behold, the Nokia OS 
upgrade unborked backup/restore so that it now works! This has been a 
good weekend for me.


Best Regards,

 

John Holmblad

 

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John Holmblad wrote:
> All.
>
> after reading the thread started by Dimitry Makovey and entitled "WIFI 
> Borked after Update", I hit the (mental) "Pause" button on the idea of 
> going ahead with updating my N800 with the ~33mb OS update from Nokia 
> that was published a few weeks ago.
>
> I took some time to see what other (intrepid)  pioneers of this OS 
> update would have to say on the thread started by Dimitry about their 
> experience. Once I read enough (but without enough time to read and 
> ponder all of the posts in that thread) I decided to go a head and "let 
> er rip". 
>
> Maybe I was lucky this time but, for my N800 the OS update seems to have 
> worked although there is a new window on my "IT top" that informs me 
> that "Video Center is here". I will figure out what that means when I 
> get some time to do so.
> My decision to do the upgrade was made somewhat more risky due to the 
> fact that, for some reason, the backup/restore utility on my N800, it 
> would seem, and to use Dimitry's language, is itself "borked". 
> Nonetheless I pushed th "lets do it" button on the upgrade. Now that the 
> upgrade seems to have worked, and the 802.11 interface is still 
> operative, I will go back and see if the upgrade somehow "fixed" (we all 
> know that such fixing CAN happen even when it is not an announced part 
> of a given upgrade) what ever caused the borking of the backup/restore 
> utility.
>
> My caution in "committing" to  this upgrade derives from the fact that I 
> actually need to be able to use the N800 for daily business purposes 
> and, my only mobile fall back option is to use the tiny screen of a 
> Windows Mobile based handset with a much more limited browser,   
> Internet Explorer Mobile. Thus, although I have put a number of apps on 
> this device, I have not used it as an experimental system by any stretch 
> of the imagination, nor have I "bored and stroked" this device as some 
> on this list have done in order to explore its outer limits.
>
> I want to thank Dimitry and the other "pioneers" who got borked for 
> sharing their experiences and for the Nokia folk for rushing into the 
> breach to figure out what happened in his particular case. It looks like 
> this time, at least, I won't be spending the better part of a weekend 
> restoring a device borked by a failed upgrade. And that is a good thing.
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Good News - WIFI NOT Borked after Update

[John Holmblad]

All.

after reading the thread started by Dimitry Makovey and entitled "WIFI 
Borked after Update", I hit the (mental) "Pause" button on the idea of 
going ahead with updating my N800 with the ~33mb OS update from Nokia 
that was published a few weeks ago.

I took some time to see what other (intrepid)  pioneers of this OS 
update would have to say on the thread started by Dimitry about their 
experience. Once I read enough (but without enough time to read and 
ponder all of the posts in that thread) I decided to go a head and "let 
er rip". 

Maybe I was lucky this time but, for my N800 the OS update seems to have 
worked although there is a new window on my "IT top" that informs me 
that "Video Center is here". I will figure out what that means when I 
get some time to do so.
My decision to do the upgrade was made somewhat more risky due to the 
fact that, for some reason, the backup/restore utility on my N800, it 
would seem, and to use Dimitry's language, is itself "borked". 
Nonetheless I pushed th "lets do it" button on the upgrade. Now that the 
upgrade seems to have worked, and the 802.11 interface is still 
operative, I will go back and see if the upgrade somehow "fixed" (we all 
know that such fixing CAN happen even when it is not an announced part 
of a given upgrade) what ever caused the borking of the backup/restore 
utility.

My caution in "committing" to  this upgrade derives from the fact that I 
actually need to be able to use the N800 for daily business purposes 
and, my only mobile fall back option is to use the tiny screen of a 
Windows Mobile based handset with a much more limited browser,   
Internet Explorer Mobile. Thus, although I have put a number of apps on 
this device, I have not used it as an experimental system by any stretch 
of the imagination, nor have I "bored and stroked" this device as some 
on this list have done in order to explore its outer limits.

I want to thank Dimitry and the other "pioneers" who got borked for 
sharing their experiences and for the Nokia folk for rushing into the 
breach to figure out what happened in his particular case. It looks like 
this time, at least, I won't be spending the better part of a weekend 
restoring a device borked by a failed upgrade. And that is a good thing.

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Re: A Race between the IPhone and the Nokia IT WE

[John Holmblad]

All,

here is the url to the www page  that was linked to the engadget www 
site and which summarizes another speed comparison that includes both 
the N810 and the Iphone 3g as well as the Archos 5;

http://www.pocketables.net/2008/10/website-load-ti.html


Best Regards,

 

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John Holmblad wrote:
> All,
>
> fyi.  Yesterday I found this news clip from Cnet concerning the Sprint 
> XOHM Wimax launch and it features cameos of the N810 including an  
> showdown between it and the Iphone (download speeds over XOHM on the one 
> hand and ATT HSDPA on the other). Bad news for team XOHM/Nokia: Team 
> ATT/Iphone one (granted it was a sample of 1). Nonetheless it is nice to 
> see the N810 ITWE in a live network.
>
>
> http://news.cnet.com/1606-2-50004011.html
>
>
> Early in the video the commentator picks up a ITWE with a wire attached. 
> Hey,,,what's that I thought we were doing wireless here? Hopefully 
> that was a power cord and not an antenna cord. However that suggests 
> that battery drain might be an issue here. We shall see.
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Re: A Race between the IPhone and the Nokia IT WE

[John Holmblad]

Fernando,

 understood with respect to

"JesusPhone and the Church of Cupertino"

but, hey, isn't Google also in the vicinity of Cupertino, i.e. Menlo 
Park? Then what does that make Andriod? Andby the way.wasn't 
Forrest Gump^1 a true believer?


Given all the other products on which Nokia is focused, including its 
Symbian OS based smartphones, and the competition for resources that any 
corporation faces, the IT from Nokia is going to live on only if it 
finds traction within a sustainable segment of the business mobile 
device market. And to get that segment, the IT has to be able to 
flawlessly tether to 3G/4g networks, ideally without the need for 
another mobile device in one's pocket and to do the things that people 
in business actually do with those devices while tethered. The Iphone 
(or Jesusphone as you prefer) has served that market convincingly enough 
in its short time in the market as evidenced by  the rush by every 
competitor of Apple, Nokia included, to bring a derivative/clone mobile 
products to the market. Why even today while visiting my mobile service 
provider's (Verizon www site), I noticed that the home page at that www 
site is now touting a, guess what, touch screen, Iphone clone, whoops I 
mean, Blackberry that is soon to be released. One of the very smart 
things that Apple has done with the IPhone is to "play nice" (e.g. 
Outlook and Exchange sync^2,3 )with that other software giant, 
Microsoft, so, for example, . They learned that lesson ~20 years ago.

Here is the url to that www page if you are interested:

http://estore.vzwshop.com/storm/

Yes, Steve Jobs probably comes closest to Jesus as a techno-deity here 
on this earth of ours given his  stunning success across all three of 
I.T., Telecom, and Entertainment. And cut the guy some slack. After all 
he has now outlasted Bill Gates while contending with some nasty health 
challenges.

If he had it in him (probably not, because of those health challenges- 
who after all needs the additional stress associated with an 
acquisition)  he could do well to acquire Nokia and kick it up a notch 
or two. And with a market cap that, as of last Friday, is ~50% higher 
than Nokia, such an acquisition by Apple is not beyond the realm of 
possibility although it is very unlikely to happen ever and certainly 
not in today's financial crisis driven/constrained capital market. Apple 
is one of the few companies that succeeds mostly by organic growth 
versus acquisition (after all there is that Apple religion that you can 
only find at that certain address in  Cupertino). Nokia on the other 
hand would gladly trade a roster of execs to get one Steve Jobs. There 
are not many people on this earth who can run one large high technology 
company successfully let alone two at the same time.

Having said that I do hope the IT does live on preferably  within Nokia, 
but if not, then  elsewhere. And now that Andriod mobile devices are 
reaching the market  "elsewhere" is a possibility.

   1.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_gump

2. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2483

3. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2480


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> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Tim Ashman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> I also think if there was flash on the cnet page the iphone would just skip 
>> it
>> thus making the test easier for the iphone.  I amazes me that a supposed
>> educated tech review firm would miss this point entirely.  I think they are
>> just lame or they are slanted toward getting that next apple invite.  Either
>> way long live the NIT
>>
>> tim
>> 
>
> Apple always preteds Linux doesn't exist... so it's kinda natural that
> fans of the JesusPhone and the Church of Cupertino itself would like
> to enlighten the masses about the superiority of their proprietary OS
> and "solutions" compared to "that other OS that doesn't exist".
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A Race between the IPhone and the Nokia IT WE

[John Holmblad]

All,

fyi.  Yesterday I found this news clip from Cnet concerning the Sprint 
XOHM Wimax launch and it features cameos of the N810 including an  
showdown between it and the Iphone (download speeds over XOHM on the one 
hand and ATT HSDPA on the other). Bad news for team XOHM/Nokia: Team 
ATT/Iphone one (granted it was a sample of 1). Nonetheless it is nice to 
see the N810 ITWE in a live network.


http://news.cnet.com/1606-2-50004011.html


Early in the video the commentator picks up a ITWE with a wire attached. 
Hey,,,what's that I thought we were doing wireless here? Hopefully 
that was a power cord and not an antenna cord. However that suggests 
that battery drain might be an issue here. We shall see.

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[Fwd: More ways to get online with XOHM!]

[John Holmblad]

All,

fyi. Sprint is now asserting the the Nokia N810 WIMAX edition will be 
available during the month of October.


If Nokia were willing to loan one to me I would bring it to my Ulma 
Mater in Baltimore to do a Live Test Demo of it. I might also be able to 
interest Prof Avi Rubin in going to work on it and the Xohm service from 
a security perspective as he has done on the topic of electronic voting 
systems that lack a paper trail^1 ,


Quim, are you listening?

Since this list  disallows html, I included the message from the Xohm 
service as a file attachment. In case that does not work for you, here 
then is the url to the www page where the N810 is shown.


   http://www.xohm.com/en_US/shop/partner-products/

   1.  http://www.avirubin.com/vote/

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Re: S6 benq

[John Holmblad]

Ryan,

lighten up. That was no off topic. You just need to think a bit more 
deeply and broadly about  subject to conclude that is fits within the 
scope of this list.

Best Regards

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Ryan Abel wrote:
> On Oct 3, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Mark wrote:
>
>   
>> Note that all the new "MIDs" include office document support out of  
>> the box...
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Thomas Clavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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>>Hy all,
>>
>> I juste discover the last Internet device from BenQ :
>> http://benq.com/products/MobileInternetDevice/?product=1402&page=specifications
>>
>> Atom powered with 512M of RAM, and it run with Midinux ...
>>
>> what do you think about it ?
>> 
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>
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Re: XOHM is Live in Baltimore

[John Holmblad]

Gary,

well,  if your speculation is correct, then that is a missed opportunity 
for Nokia and Sprint because earlier this year I did offer my company's 
services to help them field test the N810 Wimax on their testbed network.

 I am also well aware that Sprint has faced big financial challenges in 
the period since the Sprint-Nextel merger which may have limited their 
options to hire outside talent to help them out on this project.


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Gary wrote:
> Their USB device isn't available yet either -- nor are laptops with
> WiMAX chipsets. It could be something as simple as Sprint Nextel not
> having resources yet to support more than the two devices they're
> launching in their test-bed city. So I wouldn't jump to any conclusions
> just yet re Nokia et al... q.v.
> http://www.xohm.com/en_US/shop/service-options/pick-two.html
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Re: [Fwd: XOHM is Live in Baltimore]

[John Holmblad]

Matt,

Wimax will find success as a fixed line replacement technology in those 
geographic areas that are not well served by the broadband wireline 
service providers. 

Whether it succeeds as a mobile technology depends upon many factors 
including the speed with which the world's mobile service providers 
deploy 4g/Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology.

As you are probably aware WIMAX and LTE are both "all IP/all the time" 
technologies (aka All IP Network or AIPN) and the ITU has agreed to 
include IEEE 802.16e (the version of WIMAX that supports mobility) in 
its portfolio of standards for 4g,^1


What surprises me about the non-availability of the N80 Wimax edition 
for today's XOHM launch is that Nokia is once again missing the 
leadership boat by not having a 4g product available for sale on the 
several times delayed launch date for the XOHM service.

A cynic might assert that Nokia is bowing to the pressure of Mobile 
Service Operators who are going to be squarely behind, not WIMAX, but 
LTE, which, as a standard, has been championed by Nokia's and 
Nokia-Siemens archirivals Sony-Ericsson and Ericsson. In fact the 
reality may be that the N810 Wimax Edition product is simply not ready 
for prime time.


1. http://ltewatch.blogspot.com/2008/07/itu-approves-new-4g-specs.html


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Matt Emson wrote:
> John Holmblad wrote:
>> This makes me wonder if Nokia is hedging its bets on the success of 
>> WIMAX/
>>   
>
> Had a meeting with a provider of microwave based internet last week. 
> He mentioned they were involved in the rollout of WiMax in the UK. 
> Unfortunately, he also made it sound like it was unlikely to be 
> available before 2010. By then the N810 will be old technology.
>
> I guess, "I wouldn't hold my breath" would be the turn of phrase I'd 
> use. Outside of the US, the spectrum used by WiMax is often highly 
> regulated. I'm not sure of other European countries, but the UK is 
> having some kind of auction at some point (or maybe had one?) but 
> either way, it's not something that looks likely to happen within the 
> lifetime of the N810.
>
> M
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[Fwd: XOHM is Live in Baltimore]

[John Holmblad]

All,

fyi. Today is the formal launch date for Sprint's (soon to be 
Sprint-Clearwire JV) XOHM Wimax service. When I navigated to the www 
page to select devices, although the Nokia Internet Tablet is shown, its 
status is shown as

"Coming Soon"

This makes me wonder if Nokia is hedging its bets on the success of WIMAX/

Here is the url to the www page at the XOHM www site to which I refer:

http://www.xohm.com/en_US/service-guide/

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Re: N800 RIP?

[John Holmblad]

Fernando,

I too have considered the N800 to have excellent potential as a 
wireless/mobile component in a home automation/home control environment. 

Regarding price levels, I did a quick google product search on the N810 
whose results are available at the www page whose url is:


http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=n810&btnG=Search+Products&hl=en&cid=10657832716709053816#ps-sellers

The low price in $US from that search is $339.99

At that price level the N810 should be viable as a component in a home 
automation/home control system at least in the U.S. market.


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Fernando Cassia wrote:
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>> I do wish I had the second card slot, however, I don't need the FM radio. I
>> never use the GPS, did use it once when lost, so it's nice to have.
>>
>> Denis
>> 
>
> The extra $100 in the price is NOT nice to have and just kills the
> ability of the device to be used in home automation scenarios, where
> the N800 would have made a great fixed device.
>
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Re: Connecting N810 to Bluetooth Phone

[John Holmblad]

Rick,

here is the url to a wikipedia article about Bluetooth Profiles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_profile

It sound like your Internet Tablet and your handset are not using the 
correct profile for accessing whatever (broadband?) data service your 
mobile phone supports. As you will see from that Wikipedia article, Dial 
Up Networking (DUN) is the profile that is generally used between a 
notebook computer or Internet tablet and a mobile phone when pairing for 
the purpose of using the mobile phone as a pass-through devices ("modem").

Of course, if you want to learn more about the Bluetooth family of 
protocols in general, there is a Wikipedia www page whose url is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth#Bluetooth_profiles


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Rick Bilonick wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 21:45 -0400, Jonathan Greene wrote:
>   
>> for a data connection I just pair it and go ... no extra software needed.
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Rick Bilonick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>>> What is the best software to use with a paired bluetooth phone? I tried
>>> PhoneLink but could not get it to work. Any suggestions for getting this
>>> to work?
>>>
>>> Rick B.
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>> 
> I was able to pair the N810 to an HTC touch diamond which runs Windows
> Mobile 5.0. It shows up as "Pocket_PC" and says it uses "OPP". I could
> not dial a number using phonelink. So how does one dial the phone from
> the N810? Or do you dial from the phone? Not sure how this is supposed
> to work.
>
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N800 or N810 with RIM/Blackberry push email service?

[John Holmblad]

All,

has anyone figured out a way to get either the N800 or the N810 to work 
with the RIM/Blackberry push email service?

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KMPlayer and .wmv files

[John Holmblad]

All,

does KMplayer properly playback *.wmv files? I have a number of wwwcasts 
that playback no problem in Windows Media Player 11 but not in 
kmplayer.  Is there a way to determine whether or not this failure is 
caused by some kind of digital rights management technology at work?

Also, I notice that kmplayer gives me three choices of player

   Osso Media Server

   MPlayer

   Flash

Which one is the right one to use?

Also what does the selectable option

"use omapfb with Mplayer"

do. Is this some sort of DSP enhancement that is optional?


I have installed the worldtv99 add-in to kmplayer and I am getting used 
to navigating with that long list of pre-defined "channels".

Any insights/help would be appreciated.



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Re: n810 and Active X

[John Holmblad]

Scott,


I can't resist..

ask Steve Ballmer,


I think it is one of those "..when hell freezes over" kind of 
things for him/Microsoft.


Active-X by design, and from the www server, downloads/installs complied 
object code (dll's) onto the machine that is running the browser that is 
attempting to use the Active-X component.


Fortunately for users of browsers other than IE, Microsoft itself is 
moving away from dependence upon Active-X in part, because of security 
concerns.

If you happen to use IE7 you are probably aware that there is much finer 
grained control of which Active-X components the user wants to 
allow/disallow (appropriately named "killbits").

Here is the url to a www page that discusses the (basic) concept:

http://blog.joelesler.net/2008/04/killbits.html


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> Has Active X made it to the n810 yet?
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Re: Wifi name

[John Holmblad]

Jeffrey,

who is the manufacturer of your router? I
s it running the DHCP  service for your network?

 It is possible that your DHCP service is not recognizing/processing the 
host name option parameter^1 in the DHCP request from the N800.  I know 
for a fact that the Linksys RV series of routers, which do support an 
optional DHCP server, do process the parameter properly. The client host 
name appears as

Nokia-N800-23-14




1. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1533.html


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Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> My router reports that my N800 is connected by Wifi, but the name that it
> reports is "unknown".  Is there a way to assign a name by which the N800
> will be known to the router?
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[Fwd: WCA's 4G Global Update: August 19, 2008]

[John Holmblad]

All,

fyi. A new WIMAX network goes live in Malaysia.

Does anyone know if the Nokia N810 Wimax Edition will work on the Packet 
One network in Malaysia?

Here for those interested is the url to the www page for the article 
about this network:

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/8/19/nation/22115546&sec=nation

 From the article it is not clear, to what degree, this network will 
support nomadic/mobile use.

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//

_Today’s Headlines __August 19,__ 2008___

*_Packet One Rolls Out Malaysian WiMAX Services_*

Packet One (P1), one of the first WiMAX licensees in Malaysia, has 
officially rolled out its services, reported *The Star*. It continued: 
P1 Chief Executive Officer Michael Lai said the company would be 
strategically positioned in the market, as it would gain first-mover 
advantage by being one of the first operators to roll out WiMAX in this 
part of the world. “We intend to be a regional player. We have been 
talking to some new WiMAX licensees in the region and are exploring 
opportunities for potential collaborations,” he said, citing Vietnam and 
Australia as some of the potential markets. P1’s target is to cover 25% 
of the population in Peninsular Malaysia by year's end, increasing this 
to 35% and 46% in 2009 and 2010 respectively. The company was among four 
licensees awarded the WiMAX spectrum in March last year by the Malaysian 
Communications and Multimedia Commission (SKMM). The others were REDtone 
International, YTL e-Solutions and Asiaspace Dotcom. Details 
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/8/19/nation/22115546&sec=nation>.

*_South African Operators Criticize ICASA WiMAX Spectrum Allocation Plans_*

South African regulator ICASA recently published guidelines on how it 
plans to allocate the remaining 126 MHz of spectrum in the 2.6 GHz 
frequency band, but has come under severe criticism from industry 
players, reported *MyBroadband*. It continued: The regulator intends to 
provide six new WiMAX players with 20 MHz each despite requests from 
both Intel and industry players to provide operators with at least 30 
MHz of spectrum each. Currently only four players – Telkom, Neotel, 
Sentech and WBS/iBurst – have WiMAX spectrum in South Africa. While 
WBS/iBurst, in partnership with Vodacom, has already rolled out a WiMAX 
network in Gauteng and Cape Town, Sentech’s WiMAX spectrum remains 
mainly unused. Sentech currently has 50 MHz of very valuable 2.5 GHz 
WiMAX spectrum in addition to its 56 MHz of 3.5 GHz spectrum. According 
to Vodacom CEO Alan Knott-Craig, ICASA should follow a use-it-or-lose-it 
policy where unused spectrum in the hands of companies such as Sentech 
was taken back and redistributed to telecom players who would make the 
most of this valuable resource. This view is shared by many telecom 
experts who feel that the massive amount of spectrum in the hands of 
Sentech and Telkom – often unused – is making it difficult for other 
competing companies to cost-effectively roll out wireless networks and 
provide broadband services to consumers. Details 
<http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Wireless/4872.html>.

*_ZTE Wins WiMAX Deal In Colombia_*

ZTE USA announced that it has clinched an exclusive bid from Columbia’s 
leading operator Emcali to build the country’s first WiMAX 16e network, 
reported *Unstrung*. It continued: Emcali was awarded WiMAX licenses by 
the Columbian government two years ago and is required to make the 
network commercially available by end of this year. The company is among 
the growing number of telecom operators worldwide putting extra efforts 
in developing WiMAX technology to address users’ needs for highly 
advanced mobile wireless communication services. International research 
firm *Pyramid Research* predicts the global WiMAX subscribers to grow 
from over 2.1 million in 2007 to 41 million in 2012, with emerging 
markets accounting for 57% of all customers by 2012. Details 
<http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=161817>.

*_Nth Air Deploys WiMAX Broadband Network In San Jose, CA (USA)_*

Nth Air, a provider of next-generation wireless communication services, 
announced today the launch of a WiMAX network across western San Jose 
and Santa Clara (USA) for delivery of high-capacity video, voice and 
data services, according to a company press release 
<http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/nth-air-inc-deploys-wimax/story.aspx?guid=%7bFB0BD7F4-3FCB-41C3-8413-8F6725D7C644%7d&dist=hppr>.
 
“Being the first to deliver services, in the Silicon Valley, using WiMAX 
technology has been our goal. Now that we have done so in our own 
backyard, we intend to expand rapidly into o

Re: Out of memory for updates on N810

[John Holmblad]

Frantisek,

ok, and got it. Now, does that mean that an individual who writes 
"loose" when they mean "lose" is a "looser"?


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> Frantisek Dufka wrote:
>   > except loosing modified initfs
>
> off topic but here it goes anyway, maybe it will help others too :-)
> http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/difficulties/looselose.html
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Re: Changes in 4.2008.30-2

[John Holmblad]

Ereo,

well there is a solution for documenting that "developer feature". Just 
implement a "red pill" mode for the OS2008 user document itself!


Hmm now lets see, .Adobe Acrobat does support document security 
features..


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Eero Tamminen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ext John Holmblad wrote:
>> thanks for the info. And yes, after I sent the email I 
>> realized/remembered that OS2008 promised no more reflashes for OS 
>> upgrades but no promises were made about rebooting.
>>
>> Regarding documentation, or lack thereof, I can understand scant 
>> documentation if there are only bug fixes in a release. However this 
>> update was advertised as a OS feature upgrade so I assume there is 
>> some new and/or changed capability (sometimes features are 
>> subtracted, i.e. taken away). Hence my question about documentation 
>> of those features.
>
> AFAIK it has only bug fixes (to browser, email etc which you can
> fairly well find from public bugzilla, see Andre's mail).
>
>
> Hm. Maybe one could think of the maemo-launcher change as a "feature"
> although it's "a bit" developer oriented...
>
> The maemo-invoker that proxies default applications launch requests
> to maemo-launcher, raises the signals into which the launched
> application terminated so that the maemo-invoker caller receives
> them properly.  However, if the application terminated to SIGSEGV
> that creates a core-dump also for maemo-invoker which could confuse
> developers and testers (as maemo-invoker core dump gets the application
> name and the actual application core dump is named maemo-launcher).
> Maemo-invoker has now disabled core dumping for itself, so there's
> only one core dump[1].  :-)
>
>
>- Eero
>
> [1] You can get core dumps by adding "core-dumps" directory to your
> memory card that has enough space for them.  Note that without
> installing the "rich-core" package which compresses the core dumps
> (and adds some extra information to them), core dumps can be *huge*
> as they include all application memory (check VMSIZE from "top" to
> see what I mean).
>
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Re: Changes in 4.2008.30-2

[John Holmblad]

Andre,

thanks for the info. And yes, after I sent the email I 
realized/remembered that OS2008 promised no more reflashes for OS 
upgrades but no promises were made about rebooting.

Regarding documentation, or lack thereof, I can understand scant 
documentation if there are only bug fixes in a release. However this 
update was advertised as a OS feature upgrade so I assume there is some 
new and/or changed capability (sometimes features are subtracted, i.e. 
taken away). Hence my question about documentation of those features.

As far as I can tell the OS2008 User Guide for the N800 and N810 has not 
been updated to reflect these changes. Here is the url to the www page 
for that document (Adobe Acrobat .pdf):


http://nds1.nokia.com/files/support/apac/phones/guides/Nokia_810_APAC_UG_en.pdf


For those not already aware, , here is the url to a wwwpage at the 
Wikipedia www site that discusses the Nokia Internet Tablet OS and which 
has already been updated to include this latest update to OS2008/Diablo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Tablet_OS

Regarding ny use of HTML, I normally set Thunderbird to default this 
list  to text only but it appears that that feature does not work reliably


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Andre Klapper wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Dienstag, den 12.08.2008, 13:47 -0400 schrieb John Holmblad:
>   
>> Today when I checked the app manager, it showed two updates as being
>> available:
>>OS2008 Feature Upgrade
>> and
>>MAP
>> What is puzzling me is why the OS rebooted after this upgrade. It was
>> my understanding that once OS2008/Diablo was installed, that future
>> updates to the OS would not require a reboot.
>> 
>
> No, only thing I remember is that you do not need to *flash* your device
> anymore.
>
>   
>> Is is somehow possible that the  App manager screwed up and caused me
>> to re-install OS2008? The download was actually quite large ~15 mb or
>> so.
>> 
>
> No, and the Diablo image itself was ~130MB.
>
>   
>> It would be nice if there were some decent documentation on this
>> OS2008 feature upgrade, if that is, in fact what it is. Does anyone
>> know where such documentation is available at the Nokai www site?  
>> A search of the Nokia www site using the search term "OS2008 feature
>> upgrade" did not reveal a pointer to any product documentation for
>> this feature upgrade.
>> 
>
> This would bring up the good old "Didn't Nokia want to provide public
> ChangeLogs when having releases?" discussion. A classic, see the
> archives.
> One can search Maemo Bugzilla for closed bugs with Target Milestone "4.1
> +", but this will also include bugs that have been fixed after the
> 4.2008.30-2 update was packaged.
>
> I can only offer the list of packages included in the 4.2008.30-2
> update:
>
> browser-neteal (0.0.18-1)
> flash-and-reboot (3)
> hildon-input-method (1:2.0.4-1)
> hildon-input-method-configurator (0.0.19-1)
> hildon-input-method-widgets (3.2.18-reversion-part-1)
> icd2 (0.50)
> icd2-network-wlan-config (0.47-diablo1)
> initfs-flasher (0.95.16-200829maemo1)
> kernel-diablo-flasher (2.6.21-200829maemo1)
> libconbtui0 (1.5.46)
> libconic0 (0.16-0.1)
> libdbus-glib-1-2 (0.74.0osso6)
> libhildon1 (2.0.5-1)
> libhildon-im-hwrarea3 (3.2.18-reversion-part-1)
> libhildon-im-ui3 (1:2.0.4-1)
> libhildon-im-vkbrenderer3 (3.2.18-reversion-part-1)
> libhildon-im-wordcompletion3 (3.2.18-reversion-part-1)
> libicd-network-dun (0.31-3)
> libicd-network-ipv4 (0.15)
> libicd-network-wlan (0.47-diablo1)
> libicd-network-wlan-config (0.47-diablo1)
> libicd2 (0.50)
> libloudmouth1-0 (1.3.3-0osso5)
> libmodest-dbus-client (1.0-2008.30-1)
> libnspr4 (1.0.4-60.14)
> libnss3 (1.0.4-60.14)
> libnss3-certs (1.0.4-60.14)
> libsmbclient (3.0.23c-1osso11)
> libtinymail-1.0-0 (1.0.0-svn3725)
> libtinymail-camel-1.0-0 (1.0.0-svn3725)
> libtinymail-gnomevfs-1.0-0 (1.0.0-svn3725)
> libtinymail-maemo-1.0-0 (1.0.0-svn3725)
> libtinymailui-1.0-0 (1.0.0-svn3725)
> libtinymailui-gtk-1.0-0 (1.0.0-svn3725)
> maemo-launcher (0.31-3)
> microb-eal (0.3.7-1.16)
> microb-engine (1.0.4-60.14)
> modest (1.0-2008.30-1)
> modest-search-plugin (2008.23.1)
> nokia-repository (5.7)
> osso-af-startup (1.66-4)
> osso-af-utils (1.17-1)
> osso-app-killer (1.23-1)
> osso-applet-location (0.30-1)
> osso-applet-screencalibration (1.4.5-32)
> osso-bookmark-menu (1:0.5.0-6)
> osso-connectivity-ui (1.5.46)
> osso-connectivity-ui-btsettings (1.5.46)
> osso-connectivity-ui-conndlgs (1.5.46)
> osso-connectivity-ui-connmgr (1.5.46)
> osso-connectivity-ui-disclaimer 

Is the Application Manager update process working for OS2008/Diablo?

[John Holmblad]

All,

I have been running OS2008/Diablo for a few weeks now on my N800. So 
far, I have not seen any updates available when I check for updates in 
the Application Manager. Is that because there have been no updates for 
my installed apps or is there some problem with the update process?

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Re: N800/OS2008-Diablo and Bluetooth Headsets

[John Holmblad]

Tukka,

and as far as I have been able to determine, there is no third position 
for the "toggle" (i.e. connect the radio output  to the processor so it 
can be handed off to the bluetooth headset).

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Tuukka Tolvanen wrote:
> Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
>
>   
>>   you need the heaphones plugged in, since the wire is used as the
>> antenna. If i'm not mistaken, plugging the headphones in disables any
>> other sound output - very simple electrical disconnect.
>> 
>
> You're mistaken :) The fm radio ui has buttons to toggle between speaker 
> and headphone output. As for the bt headset case, dunno.
>
>   
>> On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, John Holmblad wrote:
>> 
>
>   
>>> I have gotten my GN/Jabra5020 bluetooth headset to pair successfully
>>> with my N800 running OS2008-Diablo and it works with the Internet radio
>>> app (mplayer?). However it does not seem to be useable with the FM radio
>>> on the N800.And in fact, if I plug in the headphones to the Headphone
>>> jack of the N800 even while the FM radio is off, it disables the
>>> bluetooth headset but does not cause the bluetooth connection to be
>>> disconnected. Does anyone know of a solution to this problem that would
>>> allow the use of a bluetooth headset with the FM radio?
>>>   
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N800/OS2008-Diablo and Bluetooth Headsets

[John Holmblad]

All,

I have gotten my GN/Jabra5020 bluetooth headset to pair successfully 
with my N800 running OS2008-Diablo and it works with the Internet radio 
app (mplayer?). However it does not seem to be useable with the FM radio 
on the N800.And in fact, if I plug in the headphones to the Headphone 
jack of the N800 even while the FM radio is off, it disables the 
bluetooth headset but does not cause the bluetooth connection to be 
disconnected. Does anyone know of a solution to this problem that would 
allow the use of a bluetooth headset with the FM radio?

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Maemo rootsh is misnamed?

[John Holmblad]

All,

it would appear that the maemo app rootsh is confusingly  misnamed the 
same as the standard rootsh command. I noticed while using it on the 
N800 via ssh that it does not require me to enter a password and 
nonetheless it provides root privileges after I first log in as a 
non-root user. My understanding of the standard rootsh command is that, 
in order to get a root shell with rootsh, the user must invoke rootsh 
using sudo.

Is it possible that the implementation of maemo rootsh incorporates a 
sudo command?

I guess that the author

meant it when he asserted "Get root easily"!


Here is the url to the www page at the maemo www site for this maemo 
command:

http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/rootsh/

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Installing wget on Os2008/Diablo

[John Holmblad]

All,

has anyone been able to install wget on OS2008/Diablo?

 If so can you share how you did it? I thought I saw wget on the 
application manager list but if it was there, it is gone now. Is the 
easiest way to simply enable red pill mode, run the application manager, 
install it and then turn off red pill mode?


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Re: Power consumption and WLAN APs

[John Holmblad]

Andrew,

after thinking about Kalle's explanation of PSM, and as the owner of a 
UTStarcom Windows Mobile handset (Verizon Wireless XV6700) that supports 
both EVDO and 802.11b, I have to conclude that, The UTS XV6700 does not 
do a satisfactory job with respect to PSM.

My conclusion here is based on the fact that the XV6700 quickly runs out 
of battery when the WIFI is turned on. Although I have an app on the 
XV6700 that will dump packet traces, I don't know of a way to enable, as 
Kalle suggests, monitor mode, or if it is even supported by the chipset 
used in the Xv6700 in order to investigate the root cause of this problem. 

Needless to say, whenever I bring my handset somewhere where I plan on 
using the WIFI, or,, for that matter the EVDO interface (which also 
seems to use a lot of "juice") so I can access the Internet from the 
Xv6700 or from the N800), I bring an AC adapter along.


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Andrew Daviel wrote:
> Excellent writeup, thanks :-)
>
> So, what devices apart from the Nokia tablets use PSM ?
>
> iPhone ? Palm ? Windows Mobile devices like the UTstarcom PocketPC  ?
>
> I opened a ticket with Proxim; not sure if our contract includes support 
> but maybe I'll get a reply.
>
> Is there anything for the tablets that can log wireless traffic in enough 
> detail to show whether PSM is working ? airodump-ng ??
>
> How about on laptops ? Airmagnet drivers perhaps (which we don't have) - 
> I have an ancient Orinoco Gold card on a Dell Latitude, and a slightly 
> less old Thinkpad with (I think) madwifi driver, and a new Lenovo on the 
> way (Windows, though)
>
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Re: Rdesktop on OS2008

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All,

because I am using the N800 and not the N810, of course I have to input 
the characters using the screenboard. However, because I ran my tests 
using VNC, I was entering the characters using my PC keyboard into the 
VNC client image on my PC display screen and not directly on the 
screenboard. In doing this I did notice that, when entering passwords, 
the first character gets auto-converted to a uppercase character before 
being obfuscated with a "*'character so I have to go back and correct 
that auto-mistake. To further verify that the use of VNC was not somehow 
corrupting the Rdesktop gui/logon process, I also ran rdesktop directly 
on the N800, that is, without using VNC,and I get the same result, that 
is, no successful connection.

Is it possible that this problem is somehow N800 specific?

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Tim Ashman wrote:
> I've noticed this too.  You have to hold down the fn, chr, ctrl or shift like 
> a regular keyboard.
>
> Tim
>
> - Original message -
> From: Richard Mancusi  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: maemo-users@maemo.org
> Sent: Wed Jul 23 2008 06:01:40 AM PDT
> Subject: Re: Rdesktop on OS2008
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:52 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> Yes, I tried with OS2008(2.2007.50-2) on N810, it works fine.
>>
>> Br,
>> tusar
>>
>> 
>
> How do you enter a number?  The pull down keyboard
> on the 810 becomes the PC keyboard.  Thus when you
> select the 810 function key to enter a number, the
> function key on the PC you have connected to is selected.
> Also pressing on the screen does not start the on-screen
> keyboard.
>
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Rdesktop on OS2008

[John Holmblad]

All,

has anyone had success using RDesktop on OS2008? It worked for me on the 
N800 running OS2007 but it does not work after I upgraded to  OS2008 and 
reinstalled RDesktop from the repository.



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Re: Power consumption and WLAN APs

[John Holmblad]

Kalle.

thanks for sharing your deep, if sleep deprived,  insights re 802.11 
power management.

I have read them out of both general interest in the workings of 802.11 
but also as a result of the fact that just this weekend I upgraded my 
N800 to OS2008 (~20 minutes-yeah) and reinstalled/upgraded/tested most 
of my apps (~7 hours-boo). 

As you know, the 802.11g standard  which uses OFDM modulation supports 
backward compatibility with 802.11b which uses DSSS modulation. Does the 
PSM method you describe work the same way for 802.11g irrespective of 
which modulation method is being used by the radio? I should think so. 
However, the reason I ask this question relates to the following 
observation:

After the OS upgrade I started getting low battery warnings when my N800 
was not connected to AC power for "a while" (less than a few hours).  I 
do not remember having this problem when my N800 was running OS2007.

Noteworthy here is the fact that both before and after the OS upgrade, 
my method of network access for the N800 was the same, that is, 802.11 
wireless to a Proxim (formerly Lucent)  Orinoco AP-2000. Now this 
AP-2000 is a dual radio (802.11a and 802.11g) system with both radios 
active at the same time, albeit in their respective frequency bands (5.7 
ghz and 2.4 ghz respectively).

Furthermore, I am fairly certain that at least one of the client devices 
associated with the 802.11g radio on the AP-2000 is operating in 802.11b 
(DSSS) mode (I can, but did not verify this), which, of course, means 
that any other 802.11g clients associated with that radio will 
"downshift" to 802.11b mode.

One thing that is different is that, prior to the upgrade, my N800 while 
at my desk was less than ~1 meter from the AP-2000. Now, because I have 
moved my desk to a different location,  it is ~5 meters from the AP-2000 
and the signal has to penetrate a ceiling/floor to get to the AP.  I 
will do some more testing today of the N800 while detached from its AC 
power source to see how long it can go before the battery runs down.


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Kalle Valo wrote:
> "ext Frederic Crozat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>   
>>> What power-management issues have you seen affecting battery life ?
>>>   
>> I think it is usually caused by interoperability deficiency between
>> 770/n8x0 and some routers wifi chipset regarding PSM (Power Saving
>> Management) part of wifi specification.
>> 
>
> Exactly. The problems stems from the fact PSM was (and still is?)
> mostly unused by the windows laptops. So it seems that some AP
> manufactures decided to omit the testing of the PSM implementation
> altogether.
>
> Why is PSM so fragile then? Since I can't sleep (jet lag, argh), I'll
> write a bit about this.
>
> PSM problems can be categorised into two classes, packet loss and
> increased power consumption. But first few definitions:
>
> PSM = Power Save Mode
> CAM = Continous Aware Mode, ie. PSM turned off
> AP = Access Point
> client = a PC or N8x0 connecting to AP
> downstream = from AP to client
> upstream = from client to AP
> frame = packet with WLAN headers sent to the air
>
> If we omit few details, PSM is actually quite simple. Every WLAN frame
> has a PSM bit in frame control structure and this bit tells the frame
> receiver (AP) the status of transmitter (client). If the bit is set,
> the client will go to sleep mode. And naturally if the bit is not set,
> the client will stay awake (is in CAM mode). When AP knows that the
> client is sleeping it must not send the frames, but buffer them for
> later use.
>
> But even though the client is sleeping, it still wakes up for the
> beacons transmitted by the AP. The beacon interval is very accurately
> defined in the spec, we are talking about microsecond precision here.
> So the client can wake up just before the beacon and go back to sleep
> right after it has received the beacon. This is how the huge power
> consumption saving is possible.
>
> If the AP has buffered frames for the client, it will set the so
> called TIM bit for the particular client in the beacon. When a
> sleeping client receives the beacon, it will check the TIM bit. If the
> bit it is set, the client now knows that AP has buffered frames and
> requests the frames from the AP. If there are more buffered frames, AP
> will set the MoreData bit in the frame control to notify client. Then
> the last buffered frame is being transmitted, AP will clear the
> MoreData bit. That way client will know that there aren't anymore
> buffered frames. Also after AP has transmitted all frames succesfully
> to the client, it will unset the client's TIM bit in beacons.
>
> If AP has buffered broadcast or mul

Re: Dose java work on the 800

[John Holmblad]

Danilo,

the url you specified works of you drop that "s" after the "http".

http://wiki.evolvis.org/jalimo/index.php/Main_Page


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Danilo Freire wrote:
> java for maemo
>
> https://wiki.evolvis.org/*jalimo*/index.php/Main_Page
>
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Jeff Treague 
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>
> is there a form of java that will work for the 800
> The Blacknight
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Re: The n800 or n810 this is what I know, which is better

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All,

the N800 has an FM radio built in. I am not certain about whether or not 
the N810 has one.


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Jeff Treague wrote:
> *The n800 or n810 this is what I know*
> 
> 1. The web cam on the n800 moves-good.
>
> 2.the gps on the n810 is better than the n800.
> Dose gps work at all on the n800?3. I like to right and the n800 has 
> the thum keyboard-I like that on the n770
>
> 4.the n810 has a bilt in key baord - I read that it was bad for big 
> fingers.
>
> 5.I like Quiver Image Viewer use it all the time on n770-both the
> n800 & the n810 can use it
>
> 6. how is wright on the n800 or n810 can you save fast and offen?
>
> 7.the n800 has two card insted of one-is this good the n810 has one
> card.
> A. The n800 one slot is hard to get to
>
> 8. n800 cost less
>
> 9. The softwere works the same
>
> This is what I fond out by looking around, which is better
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Re: How to Get Root Access on the N810

[John Holmblad]

Marius,

for those who use Windows Desktops, PuTTY is a nice SSH/Telnet client 
app for use with the Internet Tablets after installing the SSH server on 
the I.T.. Here for those not already familiar with PuTTY is the url to 
the www site for it:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/



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> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:42:31PM -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:
>   
>> How do you establish root access on the N810? I don't recall setting up
>> a root password. When I type:
>>
>> 
>>> su -
>>>   
>> It says "applet requires root privileges." If I try to use sudo, it asks
>> for a password.
>> 
>
> Here's what I do:
>
>   * Enable Maemo Extras
>   * Install openssh-server.  It will ask for a new root password.
>   * Open X Terminal
>   * ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> And then, optionally
>
>   * 'EDITOR=vi visudo' and add at the bottom
>
>   user ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
>   root ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
>
> I'm afraid there's no editor more convenient than vi, and you have to
> know vi to be able to use it.
>
>   
>> Once I get past this, how do I install apt?
>> 
>
> Apt is preinstalled.
>
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Wayfinder Navigator vs Garmin

[John Holmblad]

All,

recently I obtained a Garmin nuvi 200w GPS^1,2   and I was surprised 
(actually floored) by how easy it is to use and how accurate are the 
maps and points of interest. This leads me to wonder how the quality of 
this Garmin product compares with that of the Wayfinder Navigator^3 
software when used on the N810 with its built in GPS receiver. Does 
anyone here have any experience with this software on the N810? And if 
so, what are your impressions?

-- 


1.   
http://www.amazon.com/Garmin-200W-4-3-Inch-Widescreen-Navigator/dp/B000QUZV9O


2.  http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/site/us


3 . http://www.wayfinder.com/internettablet


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N810 out of Stock at Nokia USA www site?

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All,

I went to see about ordering an N810 from the Nokia USA www site (I 
tried using both Firefox and IE7) and the www site says the N810 is out 
of stock! 

Here is the url that I used:
  

http://www.nokiausa.com/link?cid=PLAIN_TEXT_607318


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N810 - The glass is half full

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All,

fyi. Here is the url to the www page with a comparison of the N810 with 
the Archos 605:


http://reviews.infosyncworld.com/internet-tablets/compare/?compare%5B%5D=Archos+605&compare%5B%5D=Nokia+N810&submit=Compare+selected+products

Among the cons listed is the QWERTY keyboard which is claimed to be no 
better than the "screenboard" of the N800. Despite the re viewer's 
negative comments the N800 is overall ranked number 2 behind the Archos 
605 in the rankings of Internet tablet computer devices.

Here is the url to the www page for the overall ranking of tablet computers:

 http://reviews.infosyncworld.com/internet-tablets/ 

I am surprised that the reviewer did not mention the existence of the 
portfolio of applications available at the maemo www site. Does this 
suggest that Nokia is not doing a satisfactory job of promoting maemo as 
a viable site for good quality N810/N800 applications?

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Sprint-Clearwir et al Wimax Network Deal

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All,

for those interested her is the url to an Adobe Acrobat .pdf of 
yesterday's joint press release concerning the formation of a 7 way 
(Yikes) jv between Sprint, Clearwire, Intel, Google, Tiime Warner, 
Comcast, and Bright House for a U.S. wide broadband wireless service 
based on Wimax:

http://www.wcai.com/images/pdf/2008_sprint05-07.pdf

 From the pr it appears that Clearwire is going to collaborate with 
Google to develop/promote Android as a mobile device platform for this 
network.

Hopefully the N810 WIMAX edition won't get lost in the boardroom shuffle 
of these bad boys as they attempt to get this potentially unwieldy 
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Microb Versus Mozilla Fennec

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All,

for those who have not already seen the article whose url is:


http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080409-first-look-mozilla-fennec-targets-handheld-browser-market.html

It provides a comparison of the performance of Microb versus Fennec on 
the N810. Fennec shows a ~6x speed improvement for javascript.


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Re: Sharing PC Drives

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David,

of course it is possible that Lake's problem is not with is N800/OS2008 
but the browsing capability  in his Windows Workgroup, or in the 
unlikely case that he has an Active Directory domain,  For example, it 
is possible that the Windows Service named "Computer Browser" is stopped 
or disabled on the Windows system in question. 

One way to sort out this kind of problem is to install/run Wireshark 
(fork/successor of Ethereal) on one of the PC's whose share that Ryan is 
trying to "browse" from  his Nokia N800 and see what if anything gets 
captured at the SMB/CIFS level.

Here for those who are not already aware, is the url to the www page at 
the Wireshark www site for downloading the Windows XP version of the 
software:

http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

As the download notes indicate, the download also includes WINPCAP which 
must be installed on the Windows system that will be capturing the packets.


I don't know but perhaps someone has ported wireshark to the n800 which 
might be a useful thing despite the small screen of the Internet Tablets.


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David Leinbach wrote:
> That's interesting that it doesn't work you for.  It works fine for me 
> (n800 with os2008).  I open file manager and after a few seconds any 
> machines with SMB shares (Windows machines or Linux machines with 
> Samba) show up.
>
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Lake Stevens Dental 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> 
> wrote:
>
> Ryan Pavlik wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> it would seem logical that a tablet should be able  to log onto
> a lan
> >> and access files via wifi.  If there's an app for that, it's not
> >> very well described  or marketed.  In contrast, my daughter's
> eee pc
> >> wifi logs on to our home lan and network resoures show up in the
> >> default file manager's startp page. I'm not sure why this the
> >> the tablet's file manager doesn't work this way.  Seems like a
> 'duh' as
> >> far as obvious utility goes, but here we are without it.
> > This should be built in to the file manager - open it up, and any
> > windows/samba shares that don't require a logon are be there.
>  Should be, IMHO, but it doesn't work on my lan...   At least not with
> the generic setup that my n800 2008OS has.  As noted before, it would
> seem logical for the system to default this way, but doesn't happen.
>
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Re: N800 not N-series? :-)

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Jac,

I would say Nokia has some catching up to do.

Ironically, Microsoft itself, with its online services is rapidly moving 
away from IE browser proprietary technologies and toward the use of the 
AJAX paradigm.

The Microsoft Office Live service (similar to Godaddy, etc.) works that 
way so it supports IE6. IE7, and Firefox 2.0 but not Safari (at least 
not on Windows).

Yesterday  I used my N800 to access the service by means of 
Bluetooth<=>Verizon Wireless EVDO<=>Verizon Wireless Internet.

Once I was authenticated to the service it worked albeit with difficulty 
given the small screen size of the N800. Having said that, it is 
actually possible, using the N800 browser, to perform www page editing 
using the (albeit somewhat crude) www page Site Designer/Page Editor 
application that is a part of the OfficeLive service. The N800 with its 
small screen size is really not practical for this kind of activity but 
the fact that it even works at all is significant given Microsoft's 
historical intransigence regarding the support of Non-Microsoft 
technologies/frameworks.protocols. etc.

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Jac Kersing wrote:
> Hmmm,
>
> Nokia just lauched the Nokia Music Store, however when trying to access it 
> using a N800 I'm getting a page stating:
>
> "Nokia Music does not support Mozilla Firefox (Linux) on your operating 
> system
>
> Supported operating systems are Windows XP and Vista using Microsoft 
> Internet Explorer"
> (Rough translation from dutch error message)
>
> So I tried the page using a Linux desktop. Different error page, with a 
> link to the N-series website. After selecting that link, first thing it 
> shows on the main page is: N810 (The new N810 WiMAX edition...)
>
> Ironic isn't it? :-)
>
> (Did I realy expect to be able to use a device with Linux to access 
> copyrighted content? No. That is probably still one step too far)
>
> Jac
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[Fwd: Re: New N810 - worst purchase I've made this year.]

[John Holmblad]

All,

fyi.


for some reason the original did not post to the list.

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 Original Message 
Subject:Re: New N810 - worst purchase I've made this year.
Date:   Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:08:29 -0400
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Chris,

well look at it from this perspective. You have ~9 months more to beat 
your record!


Having said that, I don't have any insights for you on 1) or 2) except 
that LEAP^1 . has a security weakness (no cryptographic salt^2 for the 
hash of the password thus making the ciphertext  of the password more 
vulnerable to a dictionary attack).
MSCHAP-V2, which is distinct from LEAP, does not suffer from this 
weakness because it uses a different mechanism ((random) 
challenge-response) for authentication that is much more secure than LEAP.


1. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Extensible_Authentication_Protocol

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_%28cryptography%29


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Chris Van wrote:
>
> Question - what is the official stance on
>
> 1) GPS not working since the latest upgrade to OS2008
>
> and
>
> 2) LEAP on MSCHAP2 wifi not working (I mean, the device is advertised 
> as being able to use wifi)
>
> I just bought it about a week ago, and GPS worked great - until I 
> updated from Nokia. I shouldn't really have to say it, but being told 
> that the device can get on wifi and then finding that it can't use 
> LEAP - which most offices I've ever visited use - is kind of a bait 
> and switch. Plus, my $19 gps device I bought at wal-mart two years ago 
> is able to connect, but the N810 is not.
>
> I'm just wondering what Nokia/Maemo has to say about these issues, 
> because I'm looking at returning the device if these features aren't 
> being fixed by Nokia/Maemo soon.
>
>
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Re: Best internet download speed through bluetooth phone?

[John Holmblad]

Laurent,

I can't help with respect to France but it so happens that yesterday 
while in a room inside of the Washington DC convention center I ran the 
DSLreports Internet Speed test and I was clocking ~126kbps on a Verizon 
Wireless EVDO connection to an N800 running the stock OS2007. The two 
speed test www sites that I have used successfully in recent times are:

http://www.broadbandreports.com/speedtest

and

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest


The second one tests in both directions but is not specific to mobile 
devices.






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Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When connected to the internet through a bluetooth phone I can't seen to
> find someone reporting more than 20-25 kbyte/second even with 3G or 3.5G
> phones + unlimited data plans in France at least.
>
> With my Nokia 6086 which is EDGE only I get 20-25 kbyte/second spikes
> and overall average of 10-15 kbyte/second which is as expected.
> I'm evaluating wether or not to buy a 3.5G phone like the Nokia E51.
>
> If you're in France or Europe you can test download speed in a X
> Terminal as follows:
>
> wget http://test1.guerby.org/test -O /dev/null
>
> Hit C-c after a few minutes once you've got an idea of download speed
> (test file is 10 Mbyte of compressed data). If not in Europe replace the
> URL with one of any compressed file URL near you.
>
> I'm interested in data plan/phone combo that get good download
> speed in France.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Laurent
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The Suspense Builds for the Wimax enabled Nokia Internet Tablet

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All,

fyi.

http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/03/13/nokia.n810.wimax.soon/

Also here is the url to an article that discusses a  Wibro (~WIMAX) 
product from Samsung:
   
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/03/10/samsung.w100k.4g.player/

And here is an article from the Thurs March13, 2008 edition of the 
Washington Post that is somewhat critical of the Internet Tablet type 
devices including the Nokia N800 and N810:


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/12/AR2008031203671.html?sub=AR


Here is the concluding text from that article:

> Set aside the question of whether we should always be on the Web,
> everywhere. How many different Web-capable devices do you want to
> carry? We have a finite amount of space in our pockets and purses.
>
> In that sense, handhelds like the N810 and the Mylo invite their
> own extinction. They do their assigned jobs well enough, but other
> devices that we're more likely to carry are ready to take over
> that work. The N810's final role may be to test features that
> later wind up on Nokia's cellphones, and the Mylo may do the same
> for Sony's PlayStation Portable
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Sony+PSP?tid=informline>,
> Walkman digital-media players and Sony Ericsson
> 
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Sony+Ericsson+Mobile+Communications+AB?tid=informline>
> phones.
>
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Article on Windows Mobile Internet Connection Sharing + Nokia N800

[John Holmblad]

All,

here is the url to the www page that has an article that discusses a 
feature, "Internet Connection Sharing" that is in Windows Mobile 5.0 AKU 
3.0 and higher as well as Windows Mobile 6.0. It allows the Internet 
connection on the handset to be shared with downstream devices (e.g. the 
N800). In fact the article mentions the benefit of the N800 and its 
larger screensize than the typical smartphone. Unfortunately, some 
mobile service providers, including Verizon Wireless, in order to 
discourage higher utilization of the broadband connection, do not 
incorporate the app to expose this feature in their firmware build.


http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/wireless/wmwifirouter-adds-wifi-connection-sharing-to-windows-mobile.as

And here is the url to the www page for an article that is referenced on 
the above www page that "exposes" this functionality in Windows Mobile:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1791921&postcount=684
 
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Re: DUN via bluetooth - with Verizon?

[John Holmblad]

Michael,

I suggest that, if you enable EVDO/Broadband on your Verizon wireless 
account, you sign up for the  "all you can eat" data plan. The sooner 
you do it the better, also, because that way you will be "grandfathered" 
in case Verizon Wireless down the road decides to make the broadband 
data plans less generous as the increased demand from users for 
broadband access puts pressure on the broadband capacity of the their 
network

By way of example, look at what happened with text messaging which, all 
of a sudden, is producing ~40% of the profits in the mobile industry in 
the U.S. (or at least that is what was reported in the news today). This 
result was achieved by the mobile service providers tinkering with the 
text messaging plans and increasing the price for "excess" messages over 
you plan limit from $.05 to $.10 and then to $.15 at least in the case 
of Verizon Wireless.  I understand that at least one carrier plans to 
start charging $.20 per excess text message. Here is the url to the www 
page at the Marketplace radio program www site that has the article:


http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/02/22/keeping_text_message_charges_under_thumb/




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Michael Conklin wrote:
> I would like to experiment with Dial Up Networking via a bluetooth 
> phone (I have not tried it yet because I need to enable broadband 
> access) but when I search on the Verizon site for instructions, the 
> only method they show is utilizing a "connection wizard" that runs 
> under Windows.  If anyone has successfully set up DUN with their N800 
> or N810 with Verizon I'd love to hear any tips.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Michael Conklin
>  
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Re: DUN via bluetooth - with Verizon?

[John Holmblad]

All,

I did a quick check of the Verizon Wireless www site to update myself on 
how they are marketing the service called "Broadband Access".  I have 
been using the service with a Verizon XV6700 tethered to the N800 via 
bluetooth. My experience is similar to Jeff's in that the N800 acts as 
an "I just want to be connected all the time" kind of device so that 
when I carry both the Verizon Mobile handset and my N800 together the 
N800 remains tethered and connected to the Internet via the BT DUN.

Having said that, it should also be pointed out that the service does 
have  caveats and limitations which are stated in the Terms and 
Conditions of offer contained on the www page whose url is:


http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=planFirst&action=viewPlanDetail&sortOption=priceSort&catId=409&lid=//global//plans//wireless+pc+card+plan


Here is a summary of those limitations:

DATA PLANS AND FEATURES

Prohibited Uses. While most common uses for Internet are permitted
by your Data Plan, there are certain uses that cause extreme network
capacity issues and interference with the network. These are not
uses intended by our Data Access plans and are therefore prohibited.
Examples of prohibited uses include the following:

(i) server devices or host computer applications, including, but
not limited to, continuous Web camera posts or broadcasts,
automatic data feeds, automated machine-to-machine connections
or peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing;

(ii) as a substitute or backup for private lines or dedicated
data connections;

(iii) "auto-responders," "cancel-bots," or similar automated or
manual routines which generate excessive amounts of net traffic,
or which disrupt net user groups or email use by others;

(iv) "spam" or unsolicited commercial or bulk email (or
activities that have the effect of facilitating unsolicited
commercial email or unsolicited bulk email);

(v) any activity that adversely affects the ability of other
people or systems to use either Verizon Wireless Services or
other parties' Internet-based resources, including "denial of
service" (DoS) attacks against another network host or
individual user;

(vi) accessing, or attempting to access without authority, the
accounts of others, or to penetrate, or attempt to penetrate,
security measures of Verizon Wireless' or another entity's
network or systems; or

(vii) software or other devices that maintain continuous active
Internet connections when a computer's connection would
otherwise be idle or any "keep alive" functions, unless they
adhere to Verizon Wireless' data retry requirements, which may
be changed from time to time. This means, by way of example
only, that using these Data Plans or Features for P2P
file-sharing services, web broadcasting, or for the operation of
servers, telemetry devices and/or Supervisory Control and Data
Acquisition devices is prohibited.


*If usage exceeds 5 GB per line during any billing period, we
reserve the right to reduce throughput speeds of any application
that would otherwise exceed such speed to a maximum of approximately
200 Kbps*. These speeds are subject to change, in our reasonable
discretion, in order to address network issues. In order to assess
your usage, you may obtain information about your usage during a
particular billing period, including during the Return Period under
your Worry Free Guarantee, through My Account or by contacting
Customer Service. These Data Plans or Features are for individual
use only and not for resale. We further reserve the right to take
measures to protect our network from harm, compromised capacity or
degradation in performance, any of which may impact permitted data
flows. Accordingly, we reserve the right to deny, modify or
terminate service, without notice, to anyone we believe is using
Data Plans or Features in any manner that adversely impacts our
network or service levels, and we also reserve the right to
terminate service upon expiration of the Customer Agreement term.

We may, but are not required to, monitor your compliance, or the
compliance of other subscribers, with the terms, conditions, or
policies of the Customer Agreement.

Verizon Wireless Plans, Rate and Coverage Areas, rates, agreement
provisions, business practices, procedures and policies are subject
to change as specified in the Customer Agreement.

Best Regards,

 

John Holmblad

 

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Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote:
> I use bluetooth DUN over EVDO with a stock Verizon Motorola RA

WSJ + Action Engine + Nokia?

[John Holmblad]

All,

the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has introduced a version of its online 
content that is optimized for small screen devices but, initially, 
available only on Windows Mobile Based devices. Here is the url to the 
www page that discusses the new service:

http://online.wsj.com/public/page/mobile_download.html?WT.mc_id=COB-DOW


The company behind this offering is Action Engine and here is the url to 
their www site:


http://www.actionengine.com

I notice that, on the Action Engine partners www page, whose url is

http://www.actionengine.com/devicepartners.html


Nokia is listed as a partner.

It would be nice if Nokia, to further promote the Internet Tablet 
product family for business users and through their partnership with 
this company could get a version of this portal access application, 
similar to, but of course better than the one now available for Windows 
Mobile,  that can be installed on the Nokia Internet Tablet.

I could be wrong but I would be surprised if the WSJ would do an 
exclusive deal with Microsoft and/or Action Engine but hey, then again, 
I was skunked by Apple's decision to accept an exclusive deal with ATT 
for the Iphone.

Some might argue that, since the Internet Tablet www browser supports 
variable zoom, such a specialized portal is not necessary since you can 
go to the standard WSJ www site and zoom/scroll away. True enough, 
however, the reality is not so simple as that, however, since a site 
with the textual content richness of the WSJ can overpower a small 
screen. In fact, given this site richness I wish that I could expand the 
rendered content of the standard WSJ www site to the full 22' of my 
monitor to spread it out a little more.


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Re: N810 and Huawei E220 USB HSDPA modem

[John Holmblad]

Tommy,

I am waiting for the arrival of a  product similar to the one you have 
except with EVDO + self (battery) powering + bluetooth support. In 
effect, what I want is a mobile phone but "hold the voice, keypad, 
etc.).  Maybe Nokia will come up with one of these do-dads since they 
are into the "no-wires" paradigm these days.

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Tommy Persson wrote:
> Tommy Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>   
>> I am trying to connect a Huawei E220 modem (HSDPA) to my N810. It
>> worked directly on my debian unstable machine. I have tried to compile
>> some additional modules like usbserial and use them but it does not
>> seem to work. Does anybody know if it is possible to get this to work
>> just compiling som extra modules or do I have to build a new image?
>> 
>
> I can report that by connecting the modem to a powered hub I got it to
> work by just insmod usbserial. I managed to create a ppp connection
> also so it works in principle. Now i just have to figure out how to
> configure it so it become convenient to use.
>
> But the power thing was irritating. The modem has two USB connections
> and one is only for power. So I connected an USB-battery that can give
> 700 mA to the power connection and still the N810 said that there was
> not enough power and failed to start things properly. I wonder if this
> just is a problem with power requirement detection. Can you disable
> this detection? I suspect that the modem does not see that it is
> connected to a battery and therefore reports that it needs a lot of
> power.
>
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What is Best practice for Battery Longevity on N8X0?

[John Holmblad]

All,

based on recent correspondence on this list I am beginning to wonder if 
keeping the N800 or N810 plugged in to the charger will result in the 
longest useful life of the battery.

Intuitively keeping the device plugged in seems to be the right thing to 
do since it will then be fully charged when I have to disconnect the 
charger in order to go somewhere with the device. Any thoughts from 
Nokia battery experts on this list?


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Nokia N800 as a Home Control Component

[John Holmblad]

All,

fyi. A US based company, Colorado V-Net apparently has ported their Home 
control technology to work with the Nokia Internet Tablet. Here is the 
url to the www page for a www site associated with CEPro magazine that 
shows the device in action.


http://www.cepro.com/article/colorado_vnet_gets_up_to_705000_to_stay_in_loveland_colo?utm_source=CEPWeekly&utm_medium=email


Note the quotation in the sidebar:

> It looks suspiciously like a Nokia N800, one of the hottest new
> handhelds for home control.

Just a few days ago I had corresponded with the company to make 
precisely that recommendation, i.e.

> 4. The Nokia 800/810 can be configured with a VNC client to
> connect to LInux servers, in addition to the Remote Desktop client
> for connection to Microsoft Windows Servers. Is there a way to
> connect your linux based control system to the home network so
> that a customer with a device like the N800 could connect in from
> the Internet (say over an IPSEC or SSL VPN?) and control their
> home system (e.g. climate/kighting/security) remotely using this
> method? If not, have you implemented some other method of remote
> support?


Here is the url to the www site for Colorado V-Net which also has a 
Zigbee based wireless lighting control solution:

http://www.coloradovnet.com


Colorado Vnet is founded by the same individual who, some years ago, 
founded Colorado Memory Systems.

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Re: bluetooth headsets

[John Holmblad]

DrFredC

Thanks for sharing that. It reminds me of why I should want to upgrade 
to OS2008.

The "bluetooth lives to pair" nature of the N800/N810 w OS2008 reminds 
me of the work that Joshua Wright of Aruba Networks has done to 
investigate and document some of the security weaknesses of the protocol 
and its implementations. Here is the url to the www page for a video 
where he discusses this and serves 
as..wellthe man in the middle:


http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/clips/how-to-eavesdrop-on-bluetooth-headsets-328664.php

Hey wait a minute isn't that perp using a Nokia Internet Tablet to 
commit his nefarious act?


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DrFredC.com wrote:
> The n800 with OS2008 works well with most every single ear/mic bluetooth 
> headset I've used. Pairs with USB blue tooth dongles for laptops that 
> are now running less than $10 a unit.  Connects with bluetooth phones 
> easily for pushing files to your phone.  It's supposedly the same in the 
> n810 -- same OS.  All the audio goes thru to the bluetooth headset when 
> they are paired.  You can walk around most of the house without losing 
> bluetooth connection between your earpiece and tablet. 
>
> Fine print -- I don't know about stereo bluetooth headsets playing 
> stereo or audio quality of the stereo signal, if it's in stereo...
>
> Also, if you've got a lot of bluetooth devices in the house that you've 
> connected to, they all can show up on your bluetooth neighborhood if 
> they are active.
>
> * I'm not sure what the tablet's power comsumption issues having a
>   robust bluetooth neighborhood might be.  It seems it could be
>   significant...
> * I also noted that my laptop with a bluetooth dongle was picked up
>   by my n800 and, after pairing up, using the file manager on my
>   n800, I was able to move files around on my wife's laptop thru the
>   house wireless LAN thru the bluetooth to my laptop which is on the
>   house wireless LAN.  I also grabbed some mp3s and moved them to my
>   tablet. It wasn't a real fast transfer, but workable. 
> * If my son is using his bluetooth headset with his laptop dongle, I
>   can also connect to his laptop in his bedroom thru bluetooth if he
>   returns the pairing code. 
> * Supposedly, I might be able to pair with his headset in his
>   bedroom if its not already paired with his laptop dongle and is
>   put into discovery mode and I grab it before he pairs with it on
>   his laptop.
> * I can pick up his cell phone's bluetooth if it's on, ditto for my
>   cell phone.  You can transfer files between the tablet and phone
>   and phone's micro SD card via bluetooth.  Works to put mp3s on the
>   phone to make it an MP3 player.  I'm not sure about audio
>   bluetooth hookup with the phone -- I've not gone there.  We don't
>   have data services enabled, so I've not gone there...  I recall
>   when connecting my phone to my laptop via bluetooth, there may
>   have been icons for audio in the phone's bluetooth list. 
>
>
> Again, I'm not sure of the tablet's power comsumption for all this 
> bluetooth activity.  Could be high with so much bluetooth stuff going 
> on... 
>
> Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote:
>   
>> Will the N810 work with a bluetooth headset? Can it redirect all audio in/out
>> to a bluetooth headset? Can skype on the N810 work with a bluetooth headset?
>> Is A2DP supported?
>>
>> Jeff (http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~qobi)
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[Fwd: Subject: Web event: A Guide to Wireless LAN Troubleshooting]

[John Holmblad]

All,

I know that wireless connectivity issues come up regularly on this list 
so I though I would share the information below about an upcoming 
wwwcast. I know that this event is oriented towards the business 
environment but, nonetheless, it may be useful for some on this list. 
And maybe some of you (e.g. Nokia folk) DO use your Internet Tablet 
inside of the enterprise wireless LAN.

Best Regards,

 

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 Original Message 
Subject:Subject: Web event: A Guide to Wireless LAN Troubleshooting
Date:   Tue, 5 Feb 2008 19:50:57 +
From:   Jeff Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



*Do your end users complain that they can't connect to the wireless 
network?  Or that the WLAN is too slow?  Do you spend a lot of time 
handling these questions?*

* *

*Please join us on Tuesday, February 12* *for another "insider" seminar* 
with senior wireless networking engineer Jeremy Haltom on how to 
troubleshoot and resolve end-user problems on your wireless network.

 

*"A Guide to Wireless LAN Troubleshooting" will take place online at 1 
pm ET, 10 am PT, and 1800 GMT on February 12.* * To attend or to receive 
a recording after the event, please click here 
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The size and complexity of wireless networks has grown by leaps and 
bounds, often exceeding the capabilities of the tools that accompany 
your WLAN hardware.  To resolve problems quickly and efficiently, you 
need to be able to determine whether the cause lies with the device, the 
user, the RF environment, wireless infrastructure, or elsewhere on the 
network, 

* *

This seminar will help you figure out how to:

 

. Assess a user's connection status and determine the location

. Determine whether issues are related to a specific AP or to 
other network infrastructure

. Diagnose common user authentication errors

. Measure and report on network performance

. Determine why users report being 'dropped' by the network.

 

The event will be one hour long.  Following the presentation, there will 
be a question and answer session and a brief demonstration of the 
AirWave Wireless Management Suite. *To reserve your seat, or your copy 
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Thank you for your continued interest in AirWave and in wireless network 
management.  If I can be of any assistance, please do not hesitate to 
call on me.

 

We hope to see you next week.

 

Sincerely,

 

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Re: how do I find out the IP address assigned?

[John Holmblad]

Collin,

works fine on N800 with OS2007.


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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> which device? OS version? method of install (install file or deb file)?
>
> anybody else having this problem?
>
> thanks for the feedback
>
> Collin
>
> On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:15:51 -0500, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>   
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 
>>> I suggest IpHome, this is my home/desktop plugin that shows the current
>>>   
>> IP
>> 
>>> address of your network
>>> devices. Notifies you of any new interfaces or any changes of IP
>>>   
>> addresses.
>> 
>>> IpHome for N8x0:
>>> http://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/2008/01/25#iphome05maemo4
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>> I tried the IpHome from maemo downloads, but it won't install.  I get an
>> error message about an incompatible application.
>>
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Re: Nokia NXXX With A Phone!

[John Holmblad]

Kevin,

what is important about Nokia's assertion about building an Internet 
Tablet that supports WIMAX in the U.S. ~2.4 ghz frequency band has to do 
with two thing primarily:

a) Nokia would like to get a piece of the market action with a big
U.S. customer like Sprint, who up until now (except for their
earliest 1980's instantiation when they were GSM) has been using CDMA

but, more importantly, I think


b) Sprint's WIMAX network, assuming it moves forward, will be a
great market testbed for "all IP/all the time" ~4g mobile networking
(one of the fist such large scale networks of its kind) and I
believe Nokia wants to be part of that as well. I say ~ because,
strictly speaking, WIMAX/802.16e is not a 4g standard.

GSM is itself, going to be supplanted by something, and, if Ericsson has 
its way it will be LTE. On the other hand now that IEEE 802.16e has 
joined the pantheon/plethora of IMT2000 standards and is being adapted 
for IMT-Advanced, there is a possibility it may eventually show up in 
European 4g mobile networks.

I should add, and you are probably aware, that there are small metro 
WIMAX projects going on all over Europe, not to mention the Middle East, 
Africa, and Asia as well.


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Matt Emson wrote:
> Kevin T. Neely wrote:
>   
>> This is quite timely, since the FCC spectrum auction just went up today:
>>
>> https://auctionsignon.fcc.gov/signon/index.htm
>>
>> So don't look backward to 20th Century technology, look forward to 
>> ubiquitous wireless access, making VOIP a reality and ditching those SIM 
>> cards forever.
>> 
>
> Being English, I can flatly point out that this means diddly squat to 
> Nokia. You need to look at what is happening in Europe to know what is 
> going on in the minds of Nokia. It doesn't matter a damn if you have 
> sold lots of frequencies, they are not valid out side of the US and 
> therefore irrelevant. The FCC does not regulate my airwaves ;-)
>
> Seriously, there is a world over here in Europe, you know ;-) We all use 
> GSM. Our 3G uses different frequencies. This is what screwed Apple over. 
> If Apple had wanted an easy ride, they could have used a US only phone 
> standard and sold a lot more units probably. But using GSM, they opened 
> the international market up a lot faster. However, not having a 3G 
> standard world wide is a big problem for them. Hence the shuffling 
> excuses, I guess.
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Re: Nokia NXXX With A Phone!

[John Holmblad]

James,

re your comment:


   "... It wouldn't take much to add an IP header to it.."


That is what the 3GPP^1 has been working toward lo these many years and 
the standards are now emerging as the Long Term Evolution (LTE^2 ) 
technology for IMT-Advanced^3 (informally referred to as 4g) mobile 
networks, although some will argue that LTE is not a bonda fide 4g 
standard. 

The ruling paradigm of 4g is"all IP/all the time".

WIMAX^4 which incorporates the IEEE 802.16e standard is an alternative 
3g standard (protocol stack actually) that has been ratified by the ITU 
for inclusion in the IMT2000^5 family of 3G standards. WIMAX, because it 
also follows the "all IP/all the time" network design paridigm has many 
of the technical attributes of LTE. The IEEE is drafting a new standard 
within the 802.16 family, known as 802.16m which will   juice up the  
payload  data rate to the point that  802.16m^6 will  be able to  fit 
within the IMT-Advanced standards framework.

If this standards "soup" sounds confusing it is because it is. The 
dailywireless.org article that I reference (6) has two nice graphics, 
one that shows the suitability of various protocol standards as a 
function of two variables, x = payload rate and y = degree of mobility 
require, and a second graphic that shows the evolution of 
mobile/wireless standards over time  which is further down in the article.

^  


1. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3gpp   

(see in particular the note regarding release 8 onwards)


2.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3GPP_Long_Term_Evolution


3.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMT_Advanced

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimax

5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMT2000

6. http://www.dailywireless.org/2007/02/20/wimax-80216m-100-mbps/


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John Holmblad

 

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James Knott wrote:
> Gary wrote:
>   
>> Joshua Layne wrote:
>>   
>> 
>>> What frequencies would this radio support? (850,900,1700,1800,1900,2100)
>>> (1700 and 2100 are data only)
>>> What data standards? EDGE? UMTS? HSDPA? and on which of the above
>>> frequencies?
>>>   
>>> 
>>>   
>> Quad band phones are more common than they used to be but GPRS, even 
>> with EDGE, is too slow to carry VoIP traffic.
>> 
> At work, we sell equipment that can do VoIP in under 20 KB/s, which is
> less than what GPRS is capable of. Also, digital cell phone voice is
> already in packets. It wouldn't take much to add an IP header to it.
>
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Re: Nokia NXXX With A Phone!

[John Holmblad]

Gary,

I agree that bluetooth tethering is a great solution/workaround to the 
need to sometimes use the N8XX as a voice communications device. The 
problem I have is that when I have bluetooth + CDMA/EVDO turn on on my 
mobile phone, it runs down the battery very quickly. I

 would like to see Nokia (or some supplier) come out with a stand alone 
EVDO/Bluetooth radio with very looong battery life and 
supply it to the US EVDO mobile service providers (Sprint, Verizon, 
Alltell, etc) for sale to their customers. Since these mobile service 
providers already sell evdo/data plans along with cardbus evdo modems, 
they should not have a problem with a stand alone device such as I am 
suggesting.

By the way, the fact that the NXX do not have CDMA or GSM mobile phone 
capability does not prevent the LETS Talk www site from marketing the 
N800 has a mobile phone. Here is the url to the www page at their www 
site where they do just that:

http://www.letstalk.com/product/product.htm?prId=32245&search=n800

If you visit that www page you will see that they refer to the N800 as a

 
"Nokia N800 Internet Tablet Cell Phone"


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Gary wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Steve Yelvington wrote:
>
>   
>> There are compromises to be made whether you take the integrated route
>> (a la iPhone) or the component route (a la Nokia). I have an N800, a
>> 
>
> The great thing about bluetooth tethering is that you can switch carriers 
> and not have to replace your tethered device at the same time. Integrating 
> a phone (and the wireless telephony it's tied to, CDMA, GSM, etc.) would 
> be a bad idea and considering the business they're in, Nokia would have 
> probably done this in the first place if they'd thought it would work. As 
> it stands, I can't envision them adding anything but WiMAX or its 
> successor in the future.
>
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Re: Nokia NXXX With A Phone!

[John Holmblad]

Aaron,

the N800 and N810 Internet Tablet are what I would call pre-4g mobile 
devices.

Nokia has asserted that is is going to launch a WIMAX version of  the 
Internet Tablet for use on Sprint's Xohm (WIMAX) Network. If Nokia 
follows through on its announced intent (I think they will), then that 
version of the Internet Tablet can probably lay claim to being the first 
4g mobile device in the world, since it will be "all IP all the time" 
and will be running on a network (XOHM) that Sprint is claiming to be a 
4g network.

I have not seen a release date for this  product from Nokia  but I would 
expect it to be out in the first half of this year. Sprint is already 
testing the WIMAX service with employees (so-called "friends and family" 
if you will) before a full rollout in the Washington DC area and one 
other market.

Here is the url to the www page at the Xohm www site for the  
partnerships that Sprint has for the XOHM service:

 http://www.xohm.com/xohm_about_partnership.html

Best Regards,

John Holmblad

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Aaron Newcomb wrote:
> OK enthusiasts, when is this going to happen? I talked about this a
> lot with attendees of the last Ohio LInuxfest and it is clear that the
> next generation of this device needs a phone. I know that there will
> be squabbles with the carriers about not being able to lock down the
> features (in the US at least), but I am convinced that this device
> would sell millions of units if it was a phone along with all the
> other great things that it does already.
>
> I think the relative success of the iPhone is proof that people are
> willing to pay for it. If the cost can stay on par with the iPhone or
> even slightly more people would flock to an all-in-one device that you
> can develop and run your own apps on.
>
> I fall into the group of people who need to be on my cell phone a lot
> for work and I carry my laptop around for access to the web (email,
> calendar, short browsing sessions). I also carry a media player for
> video and audio playback. I can't stand Blackberry or Treo phones.
> Most of the people I work with have them and hate them. So, as I see
> it the N810 meets 2 out of 3 of my needs, but that third one (cell
> phone) is where I spend most of my work time and I just can't justify
> the cost unless I can get that last component.
>
> For no extra charge ... I am happy to use a wired or bluetooth headset
> or speakerphone. I don't need to hold the device up to my head. I have
> gotten past the Ma Bell days of yesteryear.
>
> Does anyone have an inside scoop on this? Is this even in the labs at
> this point? Am I out of my mind or is this next step the most
> important one in the evolution of the product?
>
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