1 Nokia N900 – Debian in your pocket Presentation by Eric Halmans - Jan 2010 Nokia N900
2 Look and Feel Hardware Software Price Watch Dislikes Demo Nokia N900 – Intro
3 1 st Real Linux Mobile! But what about: IPhone Android Blackberry Windows Mobile Nokia N900 – Intro
4 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
5 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
6 Nokia N900 – Omap3430 Processor
7 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
8 Screen: 800 x 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
9 Nokia N900 – Software
10 Nokia N900 – Software
11 Debian Lenny for ARM Almost 30,000 packages! Nokia N900 – Software
12 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
13 Nokia N900 – Prices
14 Nokia N900 – Prices
15 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
16 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
(Forums) Nokia N900 – Links
18 Nokia N900 – Demo “You have to be Linux minded to make the most of it…”