Thread: Nokia N800 vs Dell Axim x51v
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travis is offline travis
2007-06-20 , 20:03
Posts: 33 | Thanked: 1 time | Joined on Jan 2007 @ San Jose, California, USA
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Yes, the Axim line is dead and Dell has as much said so. It was the best PDA for along time.

Originally Posted by remjax View Post
CON: WM has MUCH better program base. A program to do most anything you want is available. Unlike the N800 where one must depend upon the graceous programming skills of a relative few programmers.
I talked with one ISV (Independent Software Vendor) that makes software for handheld devices and gives it away -- they are not open source, but their program binaries are FREE. I asked if they would be interested in developing a version for the N800 (they provide free binaries for a LOT of handheld platforms). They looked into it and got back to me and said that the software license agreement in the Nokia 800 development kit was too ambiguous -- they were afraid that they would have to give away their source code.

I would like for open source, non-open source, and for-profit entitities to all be able to easily make software for the N800 and use whatever business model they prefer. This is the way to get the largest software base.

Travis