“At least two large online retailers are selling Nokia’s 770
Internet Tablet for $140. Originally priced at $400, the 770 was
Nokia’s first Linux-based consumer device–and arguably the first
product in an emergent new generation of pocketable WiFi-connected
Web tablets.“Compared to Nokia’s second-generation N800 Internet Tablet, the
770 has a slower processor, less RAM, only one speaker, and fewer
expansion slots. Additionally, the Nokia-sponsored Maemo.org
project’s newest Linux-based operating system release (‘Tablet OS
2007’) is available for the 770 only in an unsupported “hacker”
release…”
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