NIT in 2021
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Do you  remember the  Nokia Internet  Tablet (NIT)  line? The  770, the
N800, the N810  and the N900 phone?  I still have them and  they are in
working condition  (except the N810 which  died few years ago).  I have
bought the 770 as a new device  but the others are second (third?) hand
devices.

Long  time ago  I also  had the  Nokia LW-3D  Bluetooth GPS  device. It
matches the 770's design and works on  a Nokia phone battery. I lost my
one (already a second hand device) somewhere in the wild but I have got
another one recently. It is also a second hand stuff but looks to be in
good condition.

I was not  sure it it will  still work with current GPS  network but it
does. It have needed  an ages for the first boot (as  it needed when it
was new) and it  is not as precise as the modern  devices are (it never
was too precise).

At first I tried  to pair it with the 770. I was  not successful. It is
possible that I  forgot to do some  magic steps (the 770  was the first
Maemo device  and many features are  added by the community  it less or
more hacky  way). It  is a  pity because I  have the  original Navicore
navigation here (do  you remember that company? It  did navigations for
many Nokia  devices, among others).  I still have  the box with  the CD
somewhere...

Then I  have tried the  newer N800 with its  more advanced OS  2008. It
have worked  from the first second.  So I started the  Maemo Mapper and
played with  it. It seems that  everything works as expected  (I should
try if it still can download the OpenStreetMap tiles...). The Mapper is
just a map  application, not a turn-by-turn navigation  as the Navicore
was.  It can  load  GPX files  with  POIs but  not  files with  tracks,
unfortunately. Still, it is better than nothing.

When playing with  the GPS I also checked other  installed stuff. There
is the FBreader  (a bit unstable as  it always was), a  music player (a
nice application but it does not like non-ASCII characters) and others.
The N800 still can work with non-https RSS feeds (there are still some,
you know). I can imagine I would be able to use this device as a travel
companion (for music,  radio, maps, dictionary, to read  e-books and so
on). But with that COVID still around I do not travel at all.


P.S. I must confess that I wrote  this text on the Sharp Zaurus SL-C760
because it  has a keyboard.  Once I was able  to write long  texts with
stylus and the virtual keyboard on the N800 but these times are gone...