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As I already mentioned in my previous post, I bought myself a bluetooth GPS receiver so I can use it with the Maemo Mapper application. Ok, I had to take this a bit further and since I’ve seen other people having their Internet Tablet attached to their car’s windshields I decided to give it a try. I Googled for a while to find a suitable holder to get the N770 attached to my car. Finally, I found a Universal PDA Holder sold by the PDA Hut in UK that seemed to be well suited for this task. Here is a couple of pictures of it in action…

I only made a brief test drive and the holder performed very well. It is easy to adjust it in a right position and it stuck really firmly to the windshield and also to the N770. It is also really easy and fast to attach and remove the Internet Tablet form the holder. I could also connect the Tablet to my car’s cigarette lighter to get it charged since most of the connectors are free even when the Tablet is in the holder.

Here’s a picture of the whole setup that I have and also couple of closeups of the Universal PDA holder holding the N770.

Yes it has finally arrived. Get the Gizmo Project SIP based VoIP client software for the Nokia Internet Tablet from here. Below are some screenshots of it running on my Nokia770. I did brief tests and it seemed to work just fine. Only downside is that it takes 8MBs of memory when installed.

Huh, man it has been a hot summer here in Finland. It has been something like 30 degrees centigrade for a month now and I’m sort of thinking that this starts to be enough. Anyway, I haven’t been writing to my blog for quite a while now. I was on a vacation for some time and in couple of weeks I will go out for some more. Meanwhile, a lot has been happening with the Nokia Internet Tablet. The final version of the 2006 software has been released and now we finally have also a almost fully functional Python runtime for the Maemo 2.0 platform as well. Now it is time to start making some serious Python applications for the Nokia 770.

I bet that everyone that has the Nokia 770 knows about the Maemo Mapper. I’ve also been using it for some time know and finally yesterday I wen out and bought myself a bluetooth GPS receiver so that I can fully utilize the power of Maemo Mapper. I have to say that I’m impressed. It works like a charm. Btw… the GPS receiver that I have is Insmat InsSiRF III.