An excellent collection of train travel related information on Seat61 web site (thanks to Nick Burch for the link). Virtually all countries and rail companies are described. Timetables, fares, best routes and a lot of travel tips are available.

Just thinking about air travel, tightened security, requests to come to the airport at least 3 hours in advance, and inter-terminal transfer hell in Heathrow or JFK makes me wonder - why don’t all companies update their travel policies to include trains & ferries - London to Helsinki would be a perfect example how an updated policies can be used
It all reminded me of the deluxe tours on a private train from Moscow to Vladivostok organized by GW Travel/The Trans-Siberian Express Company. Takes 2 weeks and can cost up to 10.000€, but what an experience!

Just a couple of days ago I was wondering when Nokia Internet Tablets will get an open source browser. So I was really happy to read today that a Mozilla based browser engine that shares the key components and extension interfaces with Firefox is available as a development version.

UMPC has a brief review of the browsing experiences with Mozilla on N800 (via ThoughtFix).

internetTablet blog reports that the new browser is:

• Built on top of the latest version of Gecko engine
• Has full ajax support (supports Google maps - street view and Google docs)
• Supports rss feed preview.
• Supports Firefox and Mozilla add-ons
• Allows to view SSL certificate details

Jonathan Green in his video post
Browser Comparison: iPhone vs. Nokia N95 and N800 compared performance of Nokia S60 web browser, N800 Opera browser and iPhone Safari browser.

Jonathan’s conclusion “my preference is for how Safari handles things over Opera” resonates with my own thoughts in “Opera Mobile vs. Nokia S60 browser - new browser war?“.

I’m wondering when Nokia will introduce open source browser in its internet tablets as well.

It was also really nice to see that one of the sites used in the browser comparison was Jaiku. Popularity of this application is growing by the hour.

Nokia has just announced an update to the Internet
Tablet OS 2007 edition, feature upgrade release is now available for
download. The update (version number 4.2007.26-8)
includes Skype client support, Adobe® Flash® 9 browser plug-in, improvements in online use times and single memory
card support up to 8 GB.

Read more on Maemo pages.

via Ari Jaaksi

Update 2007-07-06 14:39: Thoughtfix has a nice review of the new firmware.

A pot of honey…

I should admit that I didn’t believe in the internet tablet concept in the beginning. I simply couldn’t imagine why would I need a device like that if I already have a laptop to use when I’m at home/in the office and a multimedia computer when I’m on the move. That is until I got an N800 of my own and used it for a few weeks. Now it is always in my briefcase, on my table, or in my hands.

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