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Nokia N800 Update Also Greets Real Rhapsody Port

Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru 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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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 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 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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