Who Needs the iPhone?
Programming Python on the Nokia N800
Monday January 22, 2007
At MacWorld 2007, Steve Jobs unveiled Apple's iPhone as an amazing device. It has been widely heralded as a major technological step forward, combining a media player, a WAP-enabled web browser, and a cell phone. It is expected to be a hit. It also requires a two-year phone contract with Cingular/AT&T Wireless in order to bring the price down to around $599 USD.
But all of that was bettered before it happened. At the Consumer Electronics Show, Nokia unveiled the N800 which sports equivalent features and a bit more for around $399 USD. One feature of Nokia's N800 is a Python programming environment. Nokia supports the ability of users to customise their phones and has enabled developers to create third-party software for Nokia devices. With a project called Maemo, you can program the N800 to do a lot more than intended and in ways that suit your needs (instead of Apple's conception of your needs). Whether you write programs for file processing or one of the several network protocols, the N800 allows you to do that with Python. You can even control the camera.
Need more reasons for why the N800 is at least as feature-rich as the iPhone? While Python programming is enough for me, StarryHope has ten others. So, if you are on the market for a new pocket communication device that you can tailor to your needs, you might save yourself quite a bit of money and consider Nokia's N800 (prices).
But all of that was bettered before it happened. At the Consumer Electronics Show, Nokia unveiled the N800 which sports equivalent features and a bit more for around $399 USD. One feature of Nokia's N800 is a Python programming environment. Nokia supports the ability of users to customise their phones and has enabled developers to create third-party software for Nokia devices. With a project called Maemo, you can program the N800 to do a lot more than intended and in ways that suit your needs (instead of Apple's conception of your needs). Whether you write programs for file processing or one of the several network protocols, the N800 allows you to do that with Python. You can even control the camera.
Need more reasons for why the N800 is at least as feature-rich as the iPhone? While Python programming is enough for me, StarryHope has ten others. So, if you are on the market for a new pocket communication device that you can tailor to your needs, you might save yourself quite a bit of money and consider Nokia's N800 (prices).