I received my Nokia N800 yesterday and have been enjoying how zippy it is compared to the 770 (which has been getting faster with every firmware upgrade).. I got a chance to play with the browser while waiting for my wife at the airport and have been poking around to see how Bora is different than Mistral and Scirocco.
One of the bigger physical differences between the 770 an N800 is the onboard camera. I haven’t set up Nokia Internet Call Invitation yet but I looked around for some camera code samples and was pleasantly suprised. Luckily Nokia is one step ahead of me with camera.py, an example program to show what the camera sees on the screen. It looks like some bindings are missing so saving an image from the camera is off limits at the moment but this is a great start.
To run the above example on your N800, grab camera.py, install Python and osso-xterm, and run camera.py from the console.
It’s time to dust off the Python Maemo tutorial and get my feet wet.
Update: I’ve also been playing with the c version of the camera example code and have managed to get it running and taking pictures after building it in scratchbox and running it with run-standalone.sh ./camera.
Will you share how you got the camera to take photos. It there an easy way for someone to get it (me) without knowing the computer language? Thanks,
Trusty
So, have you written any cool Python apps for your n800 yet?
I just ordered mine, and I’ve been reading the API docs. I figure Python won’t be that hard to learn (I already program VB (sorry), Pascal and PHP.) In fact I wrote a hello world app today in Python just to see it in action.