Nokia to Put Google Talk on its Linux Tablet

prostoalex writes "The next version of Nokia 770 Linux-based Internet tablet with WiFi support will feature Google Talk with VOIP in its next release, MSNBC reports. The device is priced to sell at $390, and both Google and Nokia agree that right now it might appeal only to niche markets. In related news, however, it means Google's GTalk client will be ported to Linux, even if it's Nokia 770-specific software architecture."

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model: 770 = 2*5*7*11
price: 390 = 2*3*5*13
Nokia: highly factorizable devices, and prices.

Re:no GSM

[Jussi K. Kojootti]

By your logic Nokia should still make all their products out of rubber -- they used to be a rubber manufacturer after all.

More seriously, Nokia doesn't want to end up as a puppet for the telcos, and moving to products that work over IP is one of the ways they can achieve that.

Re:Great

[Anonymous Coward]

With the brand recognition of Google maybe the cell providers won't be able to simply disable the feature and pretend they are selling the same phone.

Not an issue.

That's what is Big Picture Cool(tm) about this. The 770 is not a phone in that it does not have GSM or CDMA aboard and does not interact with (or require) a telco at all. Imagine the PSP except built by people who are not obsessed with fucking over the end user.

Currently you might by a camera phone and find that, while it takes fine pictures, you can't get those pictures off without paying extortionate data rates. The reason is not that Nokia (or Mot or Samsung...Sony/Eriksson is a different story) wants to screw you or that they can't easily provide a standard USB cable. The reason is that they sell their phones to the carriers and the carriers DO want to screw you.

Enter the 770. The carriers have no more say in what this device does than they do with my laptop. T-Mobile can't say "break the WiFi or we won't sell it" because they couldn't sell it anyways. There's still a need for VoIP provisioning and routing but neither that provisioning nor the device itself is bound to a provider the way a traditional cell phone is. This is exactly the device that the carriers have been panicking about.

   

Re:770 sucks it hard

[int19h]

If that are the main reasons for lousyness, I think I might buy one.

Re:does it matter?

[GuyWithLag]

Oh, they do make money from gmail all right - they sell ads. Targetted, usually relevant ads, but they do get paid for them.