OS2008
I grabbed the latest build of Nokia’s new firmware and I must say I’m impressed.
A very captivating background greeted me for the initial wizard. The widget theme doesn’t scream “Hey I’m the boring gtk+ you’ve been staring at for the last 7 years!”. And then the interface loads and I can enjoy the dark theme with its lovely monochrome status icons(Nice touch on the brightnes gauge, tig). When applications load, there’s no horrible flicker or repaints. Menus render instantly. Top level menus are in awesome dark grey. All in all the visual quirks have been ironed out and I feel like I’ve just been given a new device. Big props to the maemo developers.
And thanks for the sane start page for the browser. Now I wonder if the thumb keyboard is broken on purpose to make me want the 810 
December 20th, 2007 at 9:29 am
It is nice, isn’t it? Thumb keyboard is very frustrating though, which is driving me crackers because I use it a lot. Been trying to get Dasher working on OS2008, but it’s something of an uphill struggle. The initial work on a port was done for the 770, the glade files appear to be out of date and libglade is refusing to return pointers to some of the widgets I know are there.
Not even any guarentee the N800′s fast enough to run it well either. Some other text input method has to be viable though.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:15 am
You should set the cursor pad center to pop up the thumb keyboard (via control panel text input settings) – then it’s easy to pop it open when needed. I think it might be even on by default?