I am totally bummed. I have not had my N800 but a few months and now they come out with the 810 which has a keyboard on board. I would love the keyboard but at the price I paid for the 800 I don't see being able to upgrade. What a let down. Sigh! Although it is great for those who have not bought yet.

Why can't they build that keyboard (not big or expensive like the one they have now)as a accessory for the rest of us???? And at a price we could justify. I doubt that is going to happen.

wonder if there will be a "hacker edition" for OS2008. I'm not getting my hopes up though.

OS 2008 HE for 770? Yes, I believe that is the plan.

Oh, please say this is so.

Has anyone from Nokia confirmed this?

I think that this is really critical for N770 owners as it seems to me that OS2007/N800 will vanish quickly once OS2008/N800 comes out and developers get their apps ported over. OS2008 is a pretty compelling free upgrade for N800 owners. I can't see any reason for devs to keep OS2007 versions up to date once OS2008/N800 gains critical mass.

So, here we are waiting for OS2007HE to pull us out of the dead-end that is OS2006 only to find that OS2007 is effectively dead-ended before the release of OS2007HE

Frankly, I think it is a waste of time for the Nokia dev who is working on OS2007HE to continue, I would vote to re-assign to OS2008HE even if that delays getting a stable release out even longer.

Don.

See comments #10 and #11. Also, see the most recent OS 2007 HE release announcement where it states...

Chinook == OS 2008.

So, three (or two-and-a-half :-) hardware platforms spanning three years, and now running the same level of OS/WM/API... this is finally starting to look like something of an ecosystem.

Although everyone, individually, may not agree with all technical choices or compromises made on any of the three models, on the whole it is clear that Nokia has learnt fast from its 770 experiment, as it said it would, and is now delivering.

This guinea pig feels just a little bit better about it :-)

Milhouse: Thanks very much for this and for the translation services :-)

And just to confirm my supposition:

Once OS2008 HE is available then, within the limitations of the hardware platform, does that mean that developing for the Nokia IT mean that a single set of sources and one repository can be used for all three versions of the platform?

I have been considering doing some development over the next few months but I was put off by the thought that I would have to buy another tablet and maintain multiple streams of code. Ubuntu Mobile and/or OLPC/Sugar looks (looked?) a lot more attractive compared to the dog's breakfast of platforms that Nokia seemed to be heading for.

And Nokia: A big anticipatory Thank You for when this happens. I feel a whole lot better now.

Don.

My biggest problem with all this is there are not that many apps and now with the new os, now updating all the 07 apps will have to take place. I can tell right now that I won't be upgrading soon. I am not really complaining since my apps are free.

I personally don't assume there is going to be much of a transition barrier between the two (OS2007 and OS2008) since OS2008 will be on the N800 and majority of the programmers will probably still have their N800s and update. Where as with the 770 to N800 (OS2007) you had to wait for them to save up for an N800 before they even cared.