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Wednesday, 17 October 2007

Everything seems to be going to shit: house is falling apart, and no-one wants to do anything about it; not enough time to spend with family or do the projects I want to work on; politics and back-stabbing everywhere, including random online communities where I accidentally seemed to have triggered a flamewar. Ho hum.

Is this that oft-talked about SAD? I don't think so, I think someone must be out to get me...

More positively, Nokia's slider & GPS-toting version of the N800 was announced today. Slightly smaller in all dimensions, it's got a nice distinctive look, without the retro chrome grill of the N800.

Most interesting of all is IT OS 2008 which looks to be a good step forward with a more polished UI, improved multimedia codecs and - apparently a speed boost. Even better, IT OS 2008 and the following version (IT OS 2009?) will be freely available for the N800. Nokia have learnt from the 770 debacle.

Also announced today is that the iPhone/iPod Touch will get an SDK next year for third-party apps. This'll be very cool, especially if there's ever a version of the Touch with Bluetooth. Then the N800 and N810 will be being competed with in a way that no-one could deny.


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