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Episode: 187
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Title: HPR0187: Maemo
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0187/hpr0187.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 13:13:41
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music
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This is Riddlebox and I have on with me, JCA, how are you guys doing?
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And today we're going to, JCA is going to tell me about MAMO and the MAMO project.
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So I get, what's that?
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At least I'm going to try.
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Yeah, you can do it better than I can.
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So I guess first, you want to just give a general description of MAMO and what it is?
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Sure.
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So MAMO basically is a platform that Nokia created for their devices.
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That's the M770 or Internet tablet.
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And then they created the new version, the N800 and the N810, which they're all Internet
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tablet PC devices that run Linux.
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And they run a subset of some of the tools that you will find on the GNOME desktop, but
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they were modified for the specific specs of the device and they call it MAMO.
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So this just specifically runs on the Nokia N8 series, right?
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Nothing else.
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Well, actually there's been some rumors about some UMPCs, UMPCs, ultra mobile PCs that
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have MAMO, one of them is most of them, they're done in Asia and they're not really well-recognized
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France or mostly like hardware labs that have been able to create an adopt MAMO in their
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devices.
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So what is one of the great things about MAMO?
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Well, one of the things is that basically when Nokia said that they wanted to get into
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the embedded Linux space.
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But this is also very interesting.
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Very interesting in the sense that Linux has been really strong on the embedded space.
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There's not a single month that you don't see any new device coming with Linux embedded.
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So when Nokia got, or Nokia got behind the project of trying to come up with an embedded
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Linux system, it really resounds across the open source sphere.
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And there was a lot of people that were excited about it.
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They initially started with, also it was very interesting because they actually stand
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behind devian, which also was, I guess, a very big victory for a lot of Linux users because
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traditionally companies, big companies will ignore the devian space and either they will
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create their own Linux distro or they will adopt some of the embedded Linux, commercial
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embedded Linux like Montavista Linux.
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And I think there was another one.
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I can't remember the name now.
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But basically, what they actually announced, they were going to work with the community
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and they choose devian, a lot of people were happy about it.
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Also they choose the GTK toolkit, which is the toolkit that people in the GNOME desktop
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and XSE and others use as the core widgets or the core toolkit for their GUIs.
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That also create a lot of vibrant noise across the internet.
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And you will see Planet GNOME, a lot of developers start getting hired in Nokia and just devoted
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to work on improving the toolkit and adapting the toolkit to the device.
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The result was a great device.
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It actually won a lot of awards and a lot of recognition.
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When it was launched, I think it was launched in 2006.
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I think 2006 was the year that in 2007 it was launched and it won a lot of devices, gadgets
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of the year award.
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I think Engagit also gave it the award as the device of the year.
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It was pretty interesting times for the Linux people.
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Now, since MAMO is built from the Linux kernel and devian and GNOME and stuff,
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does it run a lot of the normal apps that are out there or do you have to get them compiled for that platform?
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Well, yes, most people, because the N770 came with an ARMAL or with a strong ARM processor.
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It wouldn't be a regular Intel processor.
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In the very beginning, you didn't have many options to code from on the repository.
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So the repository was very small.
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But there were workarounds and one of the early workarounds was using Slackware.
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So there was a repository for Slack packages on Slackware ARM.
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So all the packages into that repository were encoded for the strong ARM processor.
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You could download the Slackware installer and install it on your distro and it will run.
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So you get all the sort of you got a larger repository and you will be able to get Apache.
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You will be able to get WGET and all these kind of well-friendly Linux tools.
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And it was fun times from that point.
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Then the devian packages actually became larger and larger and more people start contributing.
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And most people were realizing that they just really just need to download the source code,
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ring code on the ARMAL processor.
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And that was all they need to do as far as tinkering goes to adapt the application to the N770 platform.
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So I guess one of the things was that they were very Linux compliant.
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And do you own a 770 or 810 or?
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Yes, I actually own a couple.
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I own the 770 and the N800.
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I didn't really jump into the N810 just because I didn't see much upgrade from the N800 to the N810.
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However, my brother got an N810.
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And he's liking it and it's a little bit improved, it's better processing power.
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And it has an internal memory card.
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However, one of the big things that the N810 brings is a built-in keyboard,
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which a lot of people thought that was very useful.
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Although, after using N770 and N800, I got really well used to the virtual keyboard with the stylus.
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And I got pretty fast, so I guess I don't miss the real hard work keyboard after all.
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How was the community around the MAMO project?
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Is it pretty big or is it still pretty small?
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Actually, it's grown quite a bit.
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A lot of people, you see the forums being very active.
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So one of the best spots to go is a website devoted to as well, MAMO.org,
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but also there has been a lot of fan or, I guess, fan sites.
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And internet tablet talk is one of them.
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And they have actually got really big.
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The forum is pretty active, and a lot of people are constantly talking about how to hack their N800 or N810.
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I found a lot of tips there, and I would encourage people to go and visit it.
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There's also the weekies on MAMO.org, and there's also a garage, which garage is basically like a source forge.
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It's a type of environment just for people that want to join in, open an account.
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They will have all the source forge tools that they will usually use,
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and then can use it to develop their own application for the N800.
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And they also have IRC channel, and I see on their website they have tutorials and some documentation.
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And there is a section in there for repositories.
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Now the website is being really slow, so I can't see.
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Is there a lot of extra repositories that you can add to it and get any different software?
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Yeah, so they actually come a couple of times in a year with a new version of the upgrade,
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the kernel, they patch the system.
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And they have different repositories from those versions.
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And you can see it up in pool.propository.mmo.org.
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And that's one of the places that you can go to find all the different repositories for MAMO.
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On the week, there's also a lot of help to get the extra repositories.
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You can also get the alpha versions from the rash.
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So packages that have not yet made it into the repository,
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but some of them, because like I said, sometimes people just recompile,
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and that's all they need to do to adopt it to MAMO.
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You can actually take a little bit of chance with the alpha,
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and install it on your N800 and run with it.
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Now, the one thing I do remember hearing about everything with the N700,
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the Nokia 770 and the N800, was you had to flash it to upgrade it, is that right?
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And now, I guess with Diablo, you don't have to do that anymore?
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Yeah, that's basically one of the very first requisites by the users.
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They say like, I usually install Linux.
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I just do an upgrade or an upgrade or something similar.
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However, because it's an actual device and an embedded device,
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they deal it by using frameworks.
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So you will flash your memory, will install the new firmware,
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and in the firmware, the actual OS will come with.
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Like you said, well, actually Diablo tries to change that.
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That would be kind of like the last distribution,
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or actually the last version of the MAMO platform that you need to install by flashing the device.
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But yeah, personally, I have not had any problems flashing the device.
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It's a very quick and easy process.
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It's just a new process, I guess many people were not welcoming
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because the thing is that you lose your data.
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It's not like you will partition, and it will just erase your root partition.
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It will actually take out the whole memory.
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Sometimes you'll have to migrate all your data to an external SD card,
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and then flash it, and then restore the backup.
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But I actually never lose any big information.
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I did that, and it went without any problems, basically.
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That's always good.
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I know as soon as someone talks about flashing firmware,
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everybody freaks out.
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I still haven't updated my bios on my desktop because I'm just nervous.
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These devices, you know, I'm looking at a picture on Wikipedia.
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They're small.
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I always pictured them as being big and bulky,
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but they look like they're pretty small.
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Yeah, they're pretty awesome.
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Actually, my dad has an iPhone, and I have it in the iPhone.
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It's basically the same size.
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It's a little bit bigger than the 800,
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but then again, if you look at it,
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this is an internet tablet, and it has around speakers.
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But the iPhone has this really tiny speaker hidden,
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and it's just unfunctional,
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while the other ones have like polygram kind of speakers,
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or exterior speakers.
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So they're pretty awesome.
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You can just turn it on and listen to everything.
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And what kind of software comes by default with it?
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Well, so this is a natural end-user device.
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It's marketed to end-users,
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and it's not planning to be geeky.
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So some of the stuff of the stack applications
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might not be very exciting to many geeks.
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So it's basically an image viewer, a browser,
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note-taking application,
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and the whole configuration stack.
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And I think there was also another thing.
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No command lines, for example,
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no emulators, video game emulators,
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or whatever.
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It's just very, very bare bones.
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And for people that are not geeks,
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actually the coolest thing would be the video chat application
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that will integrate with the Java,
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they have a negative Java client for IM
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and video chatting,
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a video conferencing.
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And also they have a Skype client,
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which also is pretty good for both people.
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So it's got a microphone built in.
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Does it have like a headset port?
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Yeah, no, no.
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Standard headset port.
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You can just plug in your headset and speak right through.
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The mic is built in.
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It's very good quality.
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It's pretty good.
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Like, for example, you go to a 20-cafe around the corner
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that has an open Wi-Fi,
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and you're just basically doing your work
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and talking to the device,
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and then you're talking to, I don't know,
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two or three people that you're doing conferencing,
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and you're just there talking to the device.
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It's pretty handy.
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It's pretty geeky, also.
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Yeah, it's right on par with the Tripoli PC,
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but Tripoli PC is a little bit bigger.
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Right.
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And this is like, you know, like conference call,
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you can just put it on the table,
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because speakers are pretty good.
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You can actually listen to the conversation
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without having to device holding your hand
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and put it on your head or whatever.
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The display is actually pretty good.
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You can watch right now.
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Now, once you get the reposts,
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and once you start looking at all the things
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that you can get,
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there's a whole bunch of stuff.
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You get the X-Term,
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you get the MC,
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me and my commander.
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You got all the N-curse applications,
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VNC, so you can VNC into your desktop,
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or you're laptop,
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you have SSH,
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you have SSTP.
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Everything that you expect from a Linux distro,
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you actually have SCUMVN,
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which is a video game emulator.
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You can have a Game Boy emulator.
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It's pretty awesome.
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It will blew your mind once you get all the applications
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that have been around for 800 nowadays.
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I can say that one of my favorites
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is also a WordPress client.
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I mean, a WordPress client,
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so you can block offline,
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and when you get a hotspot,
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it will just sync it to your block,
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which is pretty cool.
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That is nice.
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I've heard, like, some people
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have mapped out keys and stuff for emulators
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and for maim and stuff,
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so that you can actually download it
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and install it on the N800,
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and it's right out of the box,
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ready to play with, you know,
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in the most comfortable position and stuff.
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Right, so the N800,
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they have a pad on the side of the screen,
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and it can work basically,
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like if you were playing some kind of game gear,
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Game Boy device, PSP device,
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so I have to use it,
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and of course,
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it's not the most perfect pad
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because it's not built for playing video games,
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but it's quite useful, I mean, it's usable,
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and you can have a very good fun playing with it.
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I can say that they also have a YouTube client,
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so if you can do the actual application,
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it's built as it was like the YouTube website,
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and you can get the most views button,
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and all these other buttons
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that you will see on the website,
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and you can just browse,
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it will download the YouTube video,
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you can either save it to your device,
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or stream it right through.
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It also has a KM player,
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it has M player,
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and it has all the supports
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that you expect from M player,
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to play MOV quick time,
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and all the different formats.
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And a KM player,
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there's actually a World 99 TV,
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or World TV 99,
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as you get all these channels
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from all these countries,
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you have a global TV guide,
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you can just go to France,
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and watch French TV,
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or either odd places that,
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I don't know, Georgia,
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or Romania,
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or South Africa,
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it's really, really, really geeky.
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Hey, I'm watching a Thai MTV, for example.
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That's pretty funny.
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Yeah, I'm watching it,
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but can't understand any of it.
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Right.
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Well, that's pretty neat.
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I think the whole thing is,
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you know, the whole project
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is looking pretty nice.
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Yes, and if you have a chance,
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or anybody has a chance to go
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and take a look at the garage,
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the garage.memo.org,
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there are some amazing projects,
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and some of the developers
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is a one-man operation,
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and they'll be gladly to,
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you know, you can just join them
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and use your skills,
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and you can actually learn a lot
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in developing software for the memo,
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and the cool part is that,
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your knowledge that you get
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developing for memo,
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you can actually fly it later on
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to the Linux desktop.
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So, most of the development
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is, like, for example,
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pie memo,
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which is almost the same as pie GTK,
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and it's the combination of Python,
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with GTK.
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So, if you can get that narrowed down
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and become a good developer
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for pie memo,
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it will be really simple
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just to start coding applications
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on the desktop.
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So, there's a lot of push-off,
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new and very creative applications
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that use some of the specific things
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on the device,
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like the pressure points
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of the stylus
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that you might not find
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in the desktop,
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necessarily, with the mouse,
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but most of the things
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are transferable.
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I mean, so,
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the widgets, the windows,
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the interface,
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it might change the interface,
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but at least the code,
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the engine will be the same.
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And we're getting new,
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exciting things,
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like, for example,
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an open document viewer
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in my memo,
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an office suite
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develops specifically for memo,
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with Diablo,
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a lot of new tools came,
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like, came,
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came of age.
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So, for example,
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we have,
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it's not evolution,
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really, it's more like,
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you know,
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calendar,
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but it's a very
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evolution-like interface,
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and it will connect
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with Google Calendar,
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so you can sync your,
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your memo calendar,
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with,
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which is a GTK-based calendar,
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with,
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with Google Calendar.
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So,
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that's also pretty cool,
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as you merge the Web2.0
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with the mobile device.
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It looks like right now,
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they have a 685 projects
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on garage.memo.org.
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Yeah, that's quite cool.
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So, yeah,
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it looks like,
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it's pretty popular.
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Yeah, that's right.
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And I will,
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I guess,
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I mean,
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college students
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that might be hearing this podcast
|
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want to do a project
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as a,
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as a graduation,
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or,
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you know, just to get the degree,
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I mean,
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this device may actually
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be a perfect fit.
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There's a lot of people
|
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starting to innovate,
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I've seen YouTube videos
|
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that they just blew up my mind.
|
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I mean, the projects
|
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are becoming so geeky
|
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and complex at the same time,
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that it's like,
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you will never think
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that this device
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will be working for,
|
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for this kind of application.
|
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So, for example,
|
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I saw a guy that was using
|
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his name on YouTube
|
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to,
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as a universal remote controller.
|
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So, he was able to manage,
|
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like, five different PCs
|
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on the network,
|
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and being able to monitor
|
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the traffic of the packages
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between the PCs.
|
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So, he was using the memo
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as a visualizer
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of the packages.
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I was pretty geeky.
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Yeah, I've heard of people
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that have,
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somebody made a,
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like a remote control
|
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for myth TV,
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so you could control it
|
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over your wireless network,
|
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you know,
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and do that.
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Yeah, actually,
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there is a project in name
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of repo called
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myth,
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myth remote,
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or myth mod.
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So, it's basically that,
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it's how to get an interface
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to control your myth TV.
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Yeah, the figure,
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myth TV would come
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into the project
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sometime.
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Yeah, it's also a,
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a lot of developer
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for the device,
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for mobile devices.
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So, one of the down things,
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a lot of people say,
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oh, well,
|
||||
it's not really
|
||||
what I was looking for,
|
||||
because they say,
|
||||
Nokia, they think phones,
|
||||
however,
|
||||
this device is not a phone.
|
||||
It's a,
|
||||
I guess it's an internet phone,
|
||||
because it has,
|
||||
Githmo,
|
||||
and it has,
|
||||
Skype on it,
|
||||
but it's not really a regular
|
||||
3G network phone,
|
||||
but it will connect to the phone,
|
||||
and there's a lot of projects
|
||||
that are also involved,
|
||||
using your phone
|
||||
in, in conjunction
|
||||
with an 800,
|
||||
via the Bluetooth chipset.
|
||||
So, you will connect
|
||||
a phone,
|
||||
use the tablet
|
||||
as an interface
|
||||
to type your text messages
|
||||
and even control
|
||||
other parts of most of the phones
|
||||
that.
|
||||
So, you will download
|
||||
the calendar,
|
||||
I mean, not the calendar,
|
||||
but the
|
||||
list of contacts,
|
||||
and you can call them
|
||||
straight from the
|
||||
800.
|
||||
So, the phone will be just like,
|
||||
basically, I guess,
|
||||
the chipset,
|
||||
like an API,
|
||||
kind of a setup.
|
||||
And most things
|
||||
are going to voice over IP anyway,
|
||||
so it will probably,
|
||||
you know,
|
||||
slowly get better and better.
|
||||
Yes, and the quality
|
||||
is awesome, also,
|
||||
on the 800.
|
||||
Like I said,
|
||||
I used it in a noisy
|
||||
coffee place,
|
||||
and the person that was
|
||||
listening to the conversation
|
||||
on the other end,
|
||||
she was bringing press.
|
||||
She was like,
|
||||
oh, I thought you were
|
||||
at home.
|
||||
There was a really good
|
||||
noise cancellation
|
||||
engine on the
|
||||
800.
|
||||
Well, that
|
||||
sounds
|
||||
I'm sold, I think.
|
||||
I'm going to have to
|
||||
go buy one now.
|
||||
Yeah, you should.
|
||||
Actually, what I heard
|
||||
is that there
|
||||
are selling
|
||||
an 800s for $150
|
||||
up in eBay.
|
||||
Does it
|
||||
cause an a 10-thousand?
|
||||
So, they're really,
|
||||
really, really inexpensive.
|
||||
If you know,
|
||||
and if you have the patience
|
||||
to look for one
|
||||
up on the eBay
|
||||
and all these other sites,
|
||||
you might be able
|
||||
to get one pretty cheap.
|
||||
And there's rumors
|
||||
of the next version,
|
||||
the N900,
|
||||
and they have,
|
||||
there's still a lot of
|
||||
vaporware around that,
|
||||
but it seems that a lot of things
|
||||
are going to migrate,
|
||||
and this is one
|
||||
of the controversies,
|
||||
I guess.
|
||||
But they're migrating
|
||||
to QT because, well,
|
||||
Nokia,
|
||||
but troll tech,
|
||||
which is the people
|
||||
that use QT,
|
||||
two-kit,
|
||||
or framework,
|
||||
and they're migrating
|
||||
a lot of stuff to KDE.
|
||||
So now, I guess, they're
|
||||
turning and hiring a lot
|
||||
of KDE developers
|
||||
to port some of the KDE applications
|
||||
into the N800.
|
||||
And the latest was that,
|
||||
I think, K-Office
|
||||
was already running
|
||||
on the N800.
|
||||
Or, I think it was the N810, actually.
|
||||
So, they have
|
||||
created this
|
||||
graphic application,
|
||||
and KXE was also
|
||||
running on the N810.
|
||||
So, I was pretty awesome
|
||||
because now you're getting a lot
|
||||
of the best of both worlds,
|
||||
now you're getting a lot of KDE
|
||||
and QT type applications.
|
||||
Another thing that they were
|
||||
also innovating was
|
||||
on the browser.
|
||||
So, at the beginning,
|
||||
we have Opera Mini,
|
||||
which was, well, basically,
|
||||
Opera the browser,
|
||||
which is very prevalent
|
||||
in the embedded space.
|
||||
So, all your Nokia
|
||||
cell phones will have
|
||||
the Opera browser.
|
||||
However, they switch
|
||||
and they switch
|
||||
to a browser called MicroB.
|
||||
MicroB is basically
|
||||
a small embedded form factor
|
||||
browser,
|
||||
like Firefox.
|
||||
So, it will use Gecko,
|
||||
it will use the,
|
||||
it will act as Firefox,
|
||||
but then again,
|
||||
downpoint is that
|
||||
some of the essentials
|
||||
were not really built
|
||||
as compatible
|
||||
with the MicroB browser.
|
||||
It was a very good
|
||||
stable browser.
|
||||
And now,
|
||||
what they're trying to do
|
||||
is they want to innovate
|
||||
once again and migrate
|
||||
to WebKit.
|
||||
So, they want to have a
|
||||
WebKit-based browser
|
||||
for the next version
|
||||
of the Nokia tablet family.
|
||||
All right, well,
|
||||
I'm pretty much out of question,
|
||||
so.
|
||||
Well, like I said,
|
||||
if people want to learn
|
||||
about getting in touch
|
||||
with the MAMO people,
|
||||
go to MAMO.org,
|
||||
and go to visit the wiki,
|
||||
and also Google
|
||||
for Internet tablet talk,
|
||||
which is the premiere form
|
||||
for the MAMO users.
|
||||
And if you don't have
|
||||
yourself a MAMO
|
||||
or at any hundred device,
|
||||
go to eBay
|
||||
and try to get it for cheap.
|
||||
And I bet you're definitely
|
||||
going to enjoy it.
|
||||
I guess the big comparison is,
|
||||
well, what about the iPhone?
|
||||
And the iPhone has been overexposed
|
||||
for so many years.
|
||||
Well, since it came out,
|
||||
however, like I said,
|
||||
my dad has an iPhone,
|
||||
and I haven't any hundred.
|
||||
And I'm seeing that the iPhone,
|
||||
well, really is all about,
|
||||
it just represents what,
|
||||
usually what commercial people
|
||||
or commercial platform users
|
||||
think about devices.
|
||||
Like, oh, yeah,
|
||||
this is so functional,
|
||||
but each step of the functionality
|
||||
you have to spend money on it.
|
||||
And even if it's a dollar
|
||||
or if it's two dollars,
|
||||
it's cheap or whatever,
|
||||
you still have to, like,
|
||||
well, you cannot see
|
||||
the source code of the applications.
|
||||
You can only, you know,
|
||||
tinker with things
|
||||
that companies provide to you
|
||||
or developers provide to you.
|
||||
And you're just, you know,
|
||||
trapped in these, well,
|
||||
consumerism that you need to get
|
||||
more applications
|
||||
and you need to pay for those applications.
|
||||
And then your iPhone goes
|
||||
to crap because it has
|
||||
so many applications
|
||||
that start crashing all the time,
|
||||
while the A800 on the other side,
|
||||
well, it is the open field
|
||||
of going into a project,
|
||||
opening the source code,
|
||||
getting really easy languages
|
||||
to learn, like Python,
|
||||
and tweak and start playing around
|
||||
with your own development.
|
||||
So, for example,
|
||||
I went to Sweden
|
||||
earlier this year
|
||||
and just like a couple of days
|
||||
before I start getting my
|
||||
first Pi GTK application,
|
||||
that will transform from
|
||||
Crohn's, which is the currency
|
||||
in Sweden, to euros two dollars
|
||||
so I can know the dollar amount
|
||||
of whatever I need to buy there.
|
||||
And I just did it myself
|
||||
and I was pretty proud about it.
|
||||
And I didn't, I didn't need
|
||||
to go and ask Apple for permission
|
||||
so I can develop
|
||||
or jailbreak my iPhone
|
||||
or whatever to be able
|
||||
to develop for my A800.
|
||||
So, this is the freedom
|
||||
that we're usually used to
|
||||
if you're a Linux user,
|
||||
but it's also amazing
|
||||
that you can start applying
|
||||
to embedded devices
|
||||
that you buy it
|
||||
and in a certain,
|
||||
I guess you can use it
|
||||
to a certain level,
|
||||
but once you get all the
|
||||
developers in,
|
||||
it just explodes
|
||||
into these multi-purpose
|
||||
devices that can do anything.
|
||||
So, I guess that will be my
|
||||
closing speech
|
||||
about getting an A800
|
||||
and speaking of a memo.
|
||||
All right, well,
|
||||
I guess that's it then.
|
||||
Great, awesome.
|
||||
So, send you guys an email
|
||||
if you guys have questions
|
||||
at jca at openoffice.org.
|
||||
You can send me your comments
|
||||
and also there are things
|
||||
that you want us to talk about.
|
||||
This is our second episode
|
||||
and I hope you guys enjoy it.
|
||||
Yep, and you can reach me
|
||||
at jamesatnigmatech.com.
|
||||
Thank you for listening
|
||||
to Hack the Public Radio.
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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