{"id":190,"date":"2005-05-26T16:44:06","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T16:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2005-05-26T16:44:06","modified_gmt":"2005-05-26T16:44:06","slug":"devices_converge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/26\/devices_converge\/","title":{"rendered":"devices converge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nokia_770_internet_tablet2.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/nokia_770_internet_tablet2.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"173\" align=\"right\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/spacer.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"10\" height=\"173\" align=\"right\"> Nokia is preparing to release the Internet Tablet, a handheld, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linux\">Linux<\/a>-based device with wireless web browsing capability and a variety of multimedia options (video, audio, internet radio). $350 is the asking price. Problems seem to be that it doesn&#8217;t come with a lot of memory, and that it doesn&#8217;t support Microsoft media formats. But it edges a little closer to the &#8220;can I take it into bed with me?&#8221; criterion. We&#8217;ll see if any interesting e-reading formats are developed for it. Most likely just a footnote on the way to something better.<br \/>\nMentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/business\/0,1367,67633,00.html?tw=rss.TOP\">here<\/a> in Wired. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxdevices.com\/news\/NS5409534614.html\">Here<\/a> with the Linux angle. Pros and cons laid out <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews-zdnet.com.com\/Nokia_N770_Internet_Tablet\/4505-3127_16-31396042-2.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nokia is preparing to release the Internet Tablet, a handheld, Linux-based device with wireless web browsing capability and a variety of multimedia options (video, audio, internet radio). $350 is the asking price. Problems seem to be that it doesn&#8217;t come with a lot of memory, and that it doesn&#8217;t support Microsoft media formats. But it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1849],"tags":[2694],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-ideal-device","tag-mobileweb-handheld-nokia-wifi-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}