maemo.org Community Council elections (Jaffa@maemopeople)

The call for nominations for the first maemo.org Community Council elections has been open for a couple of weeks now. But I wonder if the wider maemo.org is aware of just how important this could be for the future of the platform.

HAVA announces official N800/N810 client

The beta is done and the results are good: The HAVA client is now available for public download. Live TV is now available on your tablet. Here's a video of it in action:

WhatMAX?

We haven't heard much about the Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition or WiMAX at all lately. Though the FCC decided to release the Nokia N810 WME manual (link is a pdf, though it will appear as .cgi) there is still no knowledge of when it will be available and to whom.

Here's a curiousity: Take a look at the Google trends graph here. While it is more searched-for than LTE or HSDPA, the interest has been going down for a several months.

iPhone 3G: Last Straw

The hot new Apple iPhone 3G is now sitting in a box and will remain there until Apple does some serious work on the software or issues a recall/replacement for the defective design. I had a phone call drop at the worst time (read: unemployed Linux systems admin talking to a potential employer) and decided that I have had enough.

FrosCon 2008

Again, the FrosCon in St Augustin, near Bonn (Germany) was a great event! Like in the past, the FrosCon team did a great job to achieve a very high standard in their service and smooth organisation! The most important thing for me was the discussion with much smart people.

I had a talk about ‘mobile development platforms’ from the free software developers view point. The talk had a very good resonance and much people agreed with me about the big need for more standards between the platforms and for more cross platform development solutions. See my slides: PDF version