Nokia vs Ogg

It’s lovely to see Nokia embracing “Web 2.0″…

• BoingBoing
• Slashdot
• Re dd it
• di gg
• ars technica
• Bl og s

You can participate too, with a related issue. Help convince Nokia to provide out-of-the-box support for Ogg Vorbis:

• Vote for bug 176
• PledgeBank (* I haven’t pledged – sticking with my N800)
• The organization responsible for the Ogg formats have provided a template for writing a letter to Nokia

According to Nokia’s Ari Jaaksi, some time ago, “There’s nothing technical that prevents it. However, the 770 is a consumer device. The challenge is that there is not much [Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora] content right now.“.
I hope Wikipedia qualifies as “content”, not to mention personal music collections.

Meanwhile, the intrepid Tuomas Kulve has released a new version of ogg-support for maemo that enables the built-in media player to play Ogg Vorbis files. He notes, “It’s untrivial to get everything working properly as the FileManager, the Metalayer Crawler, and the Media Player are all close source applications and their behaviour is not really documented anywhere.” Hopefully this situation will change.

See also:

• Nokia and Ogg: ambivalence or actively hostile? on Internet Tablet Talk.
• An email from Nokia to the W3C