Nokia Starts Open Source Website

X-Fade writes "Nokia launched OpenSource.nokia.com today. It is the first place to look for information concerning Nokia involvement in the Open Source community. The Projects page lists all Nokia developed downloadable code including: Maemo (Development platform for Linux based handhelds), MobileNews (Mobile NNTP reader), Python for S60, Sofia-SIP (SIP User-Agent library) and more. The website also features a list of all projects Nokia contributed to."

Re:Ipso?

[Saiyine]

Nokia IPSO is an appliance-optimized, security-hardened, clusterable OS capable of supporting a wide range of Nokia and partner security applications.

More info here [nokia.com].

Re:looks promising

[Anonymous Coward]

very interesting article from an ex-yahoo and founder of a new open mobile technology: http://bluepulseblog.blogspot.com/ [blogspot.com]

Not everything

[JuniorJack]

I am still waiting to see the FPS-10 service box sources, that is entirely based on Linux kernel. For people that have no idea, this box is sold by Nokia to their authorized service centers and is used to repair/tune/check faults in
all Nokia mobile handsets.

For downloading anything..

[Anonymous Coward]

..registration is required. Luckily bugmenot has some valid accounts, for example: harryman84/blahblah, kutzooi23/nokianokianokia, bugmenot2/passworded

Re:Ipso?

[convolvatron]

i was one of the engineers on ipso. its not completely useless,
its lovely to do network level code in, and it was about 2x faster
than the freebsd it was based on (1.2) in forwarding speed. it
had decent custom routing protocol implementations.

but there really isn't any need for a seperate implementation
any longer. really. all you would be doing is losing out on
drivers. i think its lived just as a marketing token, a random
differentiator. and nokia can vaugely feel they got something
from buying ipsilon. i always hear about internal struggles to
replace it with linux, and remain thoroughly suprised it hasn't
happened yet.

Re:Where are the hacks?

[puto]

howardforum.com anything and everything you need to know. Sorted by carrier and phone. You can ask and receive any answer you need there.

And as for unlocking phones. Well go for it, all my have the hidden features enabled, and I work for the largest cell carrier in the US. Did I get the answers from work, nope. Got them from the web.

Here is the issue. The features are generally locked because they are untested, are have no bearing on what service your provider is selling you. Also if you flash firmware, or in general screw some of the software up, and the phone goes tits up, you will not be under warranty anymore.

I spend a fair amount of my time explaining to customers if they flash something to the phone motorola, or nokia did not write, and their phone is no longer working. IT is not a warranty issue, because it is out of spec for the device.

I doube Nokia would post a crack, because when a phone is warrantied through a carrier, it is then warrantied generally back to the manufacturer. So nokia would be shooting itself in the foot.

Cables you can find anywhere on the net, hell best buy in the us sells a kit with cables and software that lets you get into about 99.9% of all phones on the market.

Just do it at your own risk.

Puto

Re:nokia is going to loose ground.

[puto]

As always, I fly a desk for the largest cell carrier in the us.

Nokia does not offer a really good device with PDA like functionality. Mainly because Nokia sticks to making phones that make and take calls. And above all tend to be high quality and last for years and years.

Personal milage may vary. But I would say most Nokia customers are die hard. Nokias phone have an ease of use unlike many others, and a 1999 nokia will function like a 2005 one.

And most people want a phone to make and receive calls. That is it. Treos and PPC phones are a very small margin of our business. Blackberries a bit larger, but I would even to say people buy blackberries these days for cool factor. PDA phones are the mortarboards of the MBA.

Now throw the techie guy, the really techie guy 35 years plus, the network engineer, software gury, unix freak, he wants a simple little phone, cause he has realized that life is more than futzing around with gear when he is not at work.

From the fire lines customers want a simple phone, no bells and whistles. Camera phones, no one hardly uses but once or twice.

Motorola tried the MPX220, can we say recall and retool. We had to replace them with audiovox mobile units, never mpx is a better phone.

Treo 650, most are utter crap. You might have a good one, but I still get one escalation a day, because something just will not work.

Pocket PC phones, the Siemens Sx-66, great phone, bit large, comes unlocked out the box. Very little complaints, we actually farm them out to the really upset 650 customers in place of.

But back to your statement, Nokia has made its mark, and they will always have a large portion of the phone business, and they move slowly, but they do things right because of it.

As for OSS on phones. Well one day.

Puto

Nokia lobbied hard for EU software patents

[Anonymous Coward]

Nokia suck [ffii.org]

Website runs on IIS

[javester]

And worse, it doesn't work when javascript is disabled.

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /opensourceenergy.org [netcraft.com]

Eeeehhh?

Re:Where are the hacks?

[Anonymous Coward]

I think that part of the problem here is that untest bits and bobs aren't enabled since there is no assurance that the phone won't malfunction and impact the quality of the service for other network users.

For example, the radio in the phone, for transmitting and recieveing data on the air will usually have calibration tables to ensure that the output is within certain tolerances. If you screw up these tables, you can easilly cause the radio to produce spurious emmissions during transmit which would impact other people using that cell in your proximity.

This is just one example, but there are numerious undesirable consequences of corrupted phones.