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Nokia N900 – Debian in your pocket

Presentation by Eric Halmans - Jan 2010

Nokia

N900

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• Look and Feel• Hardware• Software• Price Watch• Dislikes• Demo

Nokia N900 – Intro

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1st Real Linux Mobile!

But what about:

• IPhone• Android• Blackberry• Windows Mobile

Nokia N900 – Intro

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• Real multi tasking

• Fully user customizable

• Best mobile browser (flash / java)

• FTP / SSH / Shell and root access

• Runs Debian Lenny (ARM)

• Great Hardware

• Development made easy

Nokia N900 – Look and Feel

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System on a chip:• Texas Instruments MAP 3430 ARM Cortex A8

• 3x faster than ARM11! • PowerVR SGX 530 GPU (OpenGL 2.0)• 65-nanometer CMOS

RAM: • 256 MB DDRAM• 768 MB Virtual Memory (Swap)

Flash:• 2 Gb program memory• 30 Gb Data memory• 16 Gb SDHC

Nokia N900 – Hardware

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Nokia N900 – Omap3430 Processor

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Wireless:• 4 band GSM• UMTS / GPRS / EDGE / WCDMA / HSPA• Bluetooth• Wifi• IR• Radio transmitter

Other:• USB (Host as well)• Stereo jack• Composite video out

Nokia N900 – Hardware

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Screen:• 800 x 480• 4 screens Linux style• Soft touch touch screen

Other:• 3D G sensor• Analog Radio• A-GPS• 5 Mega Pixel camera

• 800x480 Video capable• Videochat camera on front• Internal stereo speakers• Microphone

Nokia N900 – Hardware

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Nokia N900 – Software

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Nokia N900 – Software

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Debian Lenny for ARMAlmost 30,000 packages!

Nokia N900 – Software

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• Vmware image (Ubuntu + dev tools)

• Python / Perl are ported

• Root access / shell scripts

• In easy-deb: gcc and gc++ native

• Firmware Flasher (bootloader)

• JTAG???

Nokia N900 – Development

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Nokia N900 – Prices 12-01-2010

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Nokia N900 – Prices 12-01-2010

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• Intuitive GUI• Multi tasking / Multiple screens• Firefox Mobile (N900)• FTP / SSH / LAMP / Root• Easy-deb! Small debian• Emulators

•(MSX, GBA, SEGA, ZX, DOS)

• Dev made easy (vmware)

Nokia N900 – Likes

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• A bit slow (600 Mhz)• Navigation / GPS• Samba• 228 MB rootfs (devel packages)• 2 Gb ext3 only (other is fat32)• Not so much programs• Dev still in motion• Keyboard & RSI• Rotation• Uitzendinggemist.nl

Nokia N900 – Dislikes

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http://maemo.nokia.com/

http://maemo.org/

http://wiki.maemo.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900

http://www.my-maemo.com

http://tweakers.net (Forums)

Nokia N900 – Links

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Nokia N900 – Demo

“You have to be Linux minded to make the most of it…”