This week is Sun's annual "JavaOne" conference in San Francisco. The N800 is in evidence in keynotes, in technical sessions and in the exhibition.

In keynotes, Sun used the N800 as one of the platforms to show their newly announced "JavaFX Script" technology - a scripting language closer to Java than JavaScript. There may be pictures of this around in the media coverage of the event.

In the technical sessions, there was a joint Nokia/Sprint presentation about some location based services. In this service, the Java on the N800 was used to run an open source OSGi implementation. This in turn ran Java code to access GPS, combine that with some mapping information and generate the results as HTML content. Opera was pointed at localhost to display the results. Anyone interested in more details may be able to find them as part of the conference proceedings for session TS-50695 when these are available.

The demo from the Nokia/Sprint presentation was on show in the exhibition. (See attached for a photo taken with permission).

Not bad for a platform without an officially supported Java!