N810

Today i tried the first time to do GeoCaching with my Nokia N810 running the Maemo (which is a Debian-based Distribution). I already own a Garmin Geko 201 with which i found 100+ Caches, so this is my reference. The GPS-Receiver of the N810 is better than the one in the Geko (at least since i use the fixed gpsd, which normally shouldn’t do something on the performance, but in my case… it made me feel better), so fixes come faster, and more accurate than on the Geko. (from hearsay the SirfIII-Chip is even better) ...

after playing around a little bit with maemo inside scratchbox, i managed to break the packetsystem beyond repair… so i wanted to start again, but the maemo-sdk-install_4.0.sh told me: E: You must close your other scratchbox sessions first so… where to go from here? http://mg.pov.lt/maemo-irclog/%23maemo.2007-01-20.log.html knows it: sb-conf killall are the magic words. lets start again.

As i blogged before i’m going to be the happy (?) owner of a Nokia N810. On this device runs a Linux with a special distribution and there is also a Development SDK, which can be run on ia32-machines. This SDK relies on Scratchbox, so i just downloaded and tried to install it. This works smoothly, they provide a shellscript, which downloads all needed components and feeds them to dpkg. But, when i try to start Scratchbox i get ...

Yes, I just received the following mail: Congratulations! You have been accepted to the N810 maemo device program. We will send your discount and instructions as soon as the device is available in your selected shop (soon). maemo team - > http://maemo.org So christmas is saved.