You bring up some very good ideas. I have a friend that owns a coney island. They have a main register and ce enabled systems running terminal services around the resturant. There is no need for text input, everything is entered in the touchecreens. This would make great use of rdesktop on a nokia device, even the 770 could keep up with that.

I am going to try this out on his wireless network, if he knows the password for the register?

remotely displaying x has worked on the 770, almost since its inception. If you connect to a redhat system and run gnome-panel, you will get the whole menu system and you can fire up anything, I used to play bounce alot), its kind of cool, but not really that usefull. I am sure there are already apps out there for linux POS, but it seems the industry is mainly using terminal services in the POS industry.

The pos solution with Nokia sounds really useful. Better than the bulky and clumsy hand held devices you often see in restuarant chains.

With good application design it is amazing how little power is needed on the tablet. I can do everything with my tablet remotely that I can do sat at my desktop computer. Like many companies our main systems have web front end or at least web access options and those that don't, like our accounting package which is an old windows application can be made accessible with an application publisher like citrix and accessed with remote desktop.

I think a lot of people are missing the real power of the simple tablet and in many cases where the umpc platform is being hailed as the solution. I wonder why you would want the power of a pc in a handheld format. People should be designing applications with lightweight front ends. Maybe we could call it client and server (or something catchy like that.......what do you mean it has already been done!.........has anyone told microsoft or intel?)

Damian

And in my opinion the 770 is actually the better device if you're talking a walk-around input mechanism due to its smaller size and hard cover (which is actually aluminum anodized plastic, not metal as some believe). So this arena could extend the useful life of the 770 model and essentially force Nokia to continue support/upgrading and improve revenue in this area since surely the manufacturing cost of the 770 has gone down and is certainly lower than the N800's. Win-win all around I think.

I am going to explore this further and communicate to the right parties. Any further info, links, etc are very welcome.

Here's a selection of threads containing Remote Users thoughts on network driven applications using the internet tablet platform - there are no doubt others that may be more relevant/interesting...

The Internet Tablet could be Sun's iPod
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ead.php?t=1873
(Unfortunately the article referenced by RogerS has disappeared)

Point of Sale
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ead.php?t=1099

Nice work Milhouse! I have already passed this on.

Sorry to hear about that Texrat, it's going around everywhere. This winter; if you can call it that; has been horrible. This of course will make it much easier for those that are trying to guess your identity

I wrote some ideas about 770 usage in the Brazilian biofuel industry last November:

Henri Bergius: Solving logistics of Mamona