Handheld Internet Browsing
by: Jim Rutherford

Due out just in time for Christmas 2005, the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet (http://europe.nokia.com/nokia/0,,74866,00.html) is a small form factor tablet that will provide access to the internet using your existing WiFi enabled broadband network. The tablet has a 4.13” high-resolution (800×480 pixels) color touch screen and runs using a custom version of Linux named Maemo.

This is the first handheld of its kind to sport a great display in a very small package and will change the way you access the Internet. Imagine viewing a live boxscore while watching the game, or browsing to a website immediately after you see the url posted on a television ad. Do you cook? This cool gadget is the perfect solution for viewing recipes in your kitchen. Like to take a newspaper into the bathroom, but find a laptop too big?

The tablet is not limited strictly to web browsing. Nokia is offering applications for reading email, listening to Interenet radio, reading RSS feeds, reading PDF documents, watching video and viewing images making this an all purpose Internet appliance.

On a technical note, Nokia promises support for HTML4.01, XHTML 1.1, cHTML 2.0, JavaScript Core 1.5, ECMAScript 2/3/Mobile Profile, Cascading Style Sheets 1/2/Mobile Profile, Cookies, SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0, Certificate management, Embedded Macromedia Flash plug-in, capability to run Multimedia framework to listen/view other multimedia formats, capability to view Adobe PDF documents with native application.

About The Author

Jim Rutherford is the webmaster for http://www.livingnow.info and a popular web development http://www.digitalmediaminute.com.