Nokia N810 as a Squeak PDA?

Gary Chambers gazzaguru2 at btinternet.com
Thu Dec 20 15:40:07 UTC 2007


Just got mine... not got time to port a vm yet so can't test the keyboard
(real and virtual). Seems to have all needed except the "|" but that can be
done via the "chr" key and a tap or two onscreen...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of Jim
> Rosenberg
> Sent: 16 December 2007 9:15 PM
> To: squeak-dev
> Subject: Nokia N810 as a Squeak PDA?
>
>
> Has anyone out there actually had their hands on a Nokia N810 running
> Squeak? I'm concerned about keyboard issues. According to one review I
> read, several special characters are not on the keyboard, and to get them
> you have to pick from some kind of screen gadget. Sounds like
> some kind of
> GTK applet that might not work in Squeak. How is the N810 keyboard from
> Squeak?
>
> I've been using Palm for many years, and all I use is memos and
> phone book
> entries. I'm not syncing with anything except the (yucky!) Palm desktop
> app. It wouldn't be hard to stitch together some off-the-shelf morphs to
> give me what I need in Squeak.
>
> One other concern I have outside of Squeak is that it seems to be not so
> straightforward to load apps for older versions of the Nokia internet
> tablets on the new OS. This is a pain! A body can get awfully used to the
> idea that all it takes to install something is ./configure, make, make
> install. Learning maemo just to port old apps myself seems like more of a
> project that I want for this device ...
>
> -Thanks, Jim
>




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