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I went to FOSDEM last weekend; it’s becoming quite a tradition.

As always, I donated some money to the organisation and received a t-shirt and an O’Reilly book in return. Saturday evening I didn’t go to the closing session, because, well, you never win the draw anyway.

Well, guess I was wrong! Sunday morning I was already charging the Nokia 770 internet tablet. And it’s a great product: very small, nice design, good battery life, easy bluetooth and WiFi discovery, and above all a sharp, bright screen (800×480 resolution). It runs Maemo, the Debian derivative created for it by Nokia, and Opera mobile as the browser. Too bad the RS-MMC slot does not accept plain SD cards – that would’ve allowed me to directly browse pictures taken with the camera.

It has RSS and PDF reader applications, and it plays audio and video. In the coming weeks, I’m planning to get root access to the device and install some additional Maemo packages.

Update: I am actually typing this update on the 770 now, and Opera is behaving really well — even on Gmail. Only hours ago I had some fun leeching internet connectivity at a bus stop. Open WiFi networks are really ubiquitous in Antwerp, apparently

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