Nokia N800 Update Also Greets Real Rhapsody Port

Linked by Eugenia Loli on Wed 28th Mar 2007 09:45 UTC

Nokia released a new update for their Linux-based N800 internet tablet, v3.2007.10-7 which includes improvements and fixes in video and Flash performance and quality, Bluetooth connection, browser stability, activating touch screen and keys lock, new camera app, rdesktop and more. Nokia also wrote an good-looking front-end to Real's Rhapsody service that includes a 30 days free trial. You can choose from millions of songs to fetch and playback via WiFi (no permanent downloading). In my test, the N800 managed 4 hours of battery life of fetching+playback using Rhapsody. Screenshot here.

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Not too bad

by bsharitt on Wed 28th Mar 2007 10:18 UTC

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2005-07-07

While I generally avoid Real player on the desktop, I've actually found the PalmOS port to be alright so this should be a good thing especialy with Rhapsody streaming.

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RE: Not too bad

by raver31 on Wed 28th Mar 2007 15:12 UTC in reply to "Not too bad"

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2005-07-06

Why avoid it ?
Realplayer is actually somewhat excellent under Linux.
It is just the Windows version that sux balls with all the included crap, the player itself is great.

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RE: Not too bad

by Eugenia on Wed 28th Mar 2007 17:17 UTC in reply to "Not too bad"

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2005-06-28

The client was written by Nokia, not Real.

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RE[2]: Not too bad

by jirka on Wed 28th Mar 2007 19:48 UTC in reply to "RE: Not too bad"

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2007-03-28

The UI of the Rhapsody client is near identical to the Nokia's uPNP client called "Media Streamer":
http://maemo.org/maemowiki/ApplicationCatalog2006#head-296a12ff610a...

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rhapsody

by broken_symlink on Wed 28th Mar 2007 10:42 UTC

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2005-07-06

does anyone know how to access rhapsody from a nokia phone? i would really like to be able to listen to stuff from my phone with wifi.

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Ogg support?

by jackson on Wed 28th Mar 2007 16:01 UTC

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2005-06-29

Has this added ogg support? Nokia really should have Ogg support in a device that runs on Linux.

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RE: Ogg support?

by zztaz on Wed 28th Mar 2007 16:45 UTC in reply to "Ogg support?"

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2006-09-16

No, it doesn't have Ogg or FLAC in the standard software. I play both using mplayer from the Maemo.org site.

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RE[2]: Ogg support?

by JrezIN on Wed 28th Mar 2007 17:35 UTC in reply to "RE: Ogg support?"

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2005-06-29

People want Ogg Vorbis accelerated via hardware DSPs! =]

There's no real world reason to use ogg vorbis or flac in N800 if it'll drain you battery much faster than MP3 playback if it doesn't use the hardware DSPs.

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RE[3]: Ogg support?

by Best on Wed 28th Mar 2007 17:56 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Ogg support?"

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2005-07-09

I agree, Ogg Vorbis support is important for a device like this, especially one which draws so much of its userbase from Linux.

Edited 2007-03-28 18:01

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Flash performance improvement?

by Tomasz Dominikowski on Wed 28th Mar 2007 17:29 UTC