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Got an idea for the internet tablet? Enter the Popular Science Nokia N800 Challenge!

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Friday, February 16th, 2007 at 10:00 PM

Straight from Ari Jaaksi’s blog:

We had a Pop Sci party yesterday at the Nokia Flagship store at Manhattan.

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We launched the Nokia N800 challenge. The idea is this:

You
come up with the most compelling application, service, script, hardware
addition or anything that you will use on the Nokia N800. You send your
idea to the challenge as explained here.
Your entry must be creative, useful, appealing, fun, versatile, or
extremely innovative — something that truly impacts people’s lives.

The
entries will be judged by members of Nokia staff and the editors of
Popular Science. They will select two of the best Nokia N800
innovations. The first winner will be featured in the May issue of the
magazine and the second winner will be featured in the June issue. Each
winner will show off his or her winning idea in the Popular Science
magazine.

Your idea must not be necessarily an application running within the N800. It can be server or network based, and idea of controlling or monitoring something using the inbuilt apps
on N800 etc. To my mind, the most important aspect of a good idea is
that it utilizes the unique features of the N800 — portability, good
screen, connectivity, openness, and so forth.

So let’s be creative out there.

More pictures of the party in this flickr set by blispig.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Grant Taylor

    This is not brain surgery. What do most couch potatoes do????? Surf and watch TV… duh.. it needs a TV tuner. My dream devise is a GPS, cell phone, wireless computer, with movies, songs and TV… and other than the wireless headphone/cell phone devise…I can throw the rest away and finally pull up my pants all the way.

  • Kate

    I have speech and hearing difficulties. I would like somehtnig this portable with the typtetalk software on maybe a small portable folding keyboard can be attached, it could also be used as a communications device that could speak what you type. Not everyone i meet can sign and would be easier to carry about that special communication devices. The web camera feature is great for video calling to communciate with other people who can sign or just to be able to see their lips as they are talking. It has great potential as a communications device to make a difference to people with hearing/speech problems.