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My N810 was delivered from the US.

Posted on Apr 24, 2008

I bought a Nokia N810 from Amazon. Actually, there are no shopping malls selling the N810 in Korea, so I had to buy one from an overseas store. Anyway, I am very satisfied with the N810. It may be my favorite toy.

The N810 uses the Maemo platform, which is based on Linux 2.6, GTK+, Matchbox, and other open source projects. Scratchbox is used as its development environment, providing a cross-platform development environment. So users can develop an application without knowing how to use a toolchain for specific target devices. In addition, we can easily install applications from the repositories using the Debian packaging and repository system.

I think it's a truly open mobile platform based on Linux, because Nokia handed over the governance of Hildon to the GNOME community.

First, I'd like to build XULRunner and run Fennec (Mozilla Mobile). It seems that it could run on the N810 and Windows Mobile 6. So I'll check the status and give my feedback to the community.

:-)

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