InternetTabletTalk guys figured they’d do an accessory guide for 770 once the device comes out. I am not sure the WiFi Finder is a must-have, and, by the way, would be way cool, if 770 had some LED to show wireless link strength and availability (like going from yellowish to green depending on the strength of 802.11b signal). But they found a charger and extra battery, and overall have done a good job rounding up the necessary side items you might buy if you had a 770.
The paragraph on memory cards got me thinking. The largest one that InternetTabletTalk points to is a 1 GB RS-MMC from SanDisk at Buy.com. I like Buy.com and usually buy all my memory from them, since they always seem to have a handful of Kingston deals. The problem is, however, that while it’s easy to find a 1GB RS-MMC card, 2 gig cards don’t seem to exist.
Would be really nice to plug in a CompactFlash or Secure Digital card from your camera and be able to view the pictures taken right on the bright screen of 770, but I guess won’t happen.
When the specs first came out for the 770, I thought that the rs-mmc slot was limited in max size - i.e., you were stuck with 256 mb or 512 mb max. You could get a larger card, but the tablet wouldn’t support it. Am I wrong (hopefully)?
Comment by dave 08.21.05 @ 1:31 amI hope you’re wrong! Out of interest, how much space would you need to store, say a feature film (2 hours)? given that the 770 screen is a good size and quality, I’m guessing it would be quite a sizeable file if you made it at a high enough quality to take advantage of the screen…
Comment by James 08.22.05 @ 10:03 pmOne hope is that if 770 hits the stride, its popularity will boost the RS-MMC market. Another opportunity would be for Nokia or someone else to provide gigs and gigs of online storage easily accessible from 770.
Comment by admin 08.22.05 @ 10:52 pmThis in my opinion is the worst decision Nokia made when making this device. If they looked at handhelds they would have seen that sd and cf are the standards.
There are other things I want but using a more popular format is almost needed. If my computer, camera, thumbdrive, and handheld all use sd why can’t my Nokia 770.
I think RS-MMC will never take off cause there is just too much competition and some formats have years
There is even an article saying that they will support sd cards.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/09/14/HNnokiasd_1.html
rs-mmc cards can be compatible with mmc with the assitance of a tiny adapter so you may not be able to get the card from your camera to go in your 770 but you can put the card from your 770 (or any new rs mmc cards you aquire) in your camera. rs mcc cards currently come in sizes up to about 512MB, presumably you’ll be able to get bigger ones eventually.
Comment by joel jaeggli 08.23.05 @ 6:56 amNone of this matters until the 770 actually comes out! I am getting bored of waiting and might put the money I have set aside towards a nice metalwork lathe instead 
The 770 has a USB port I believe. Could you add more storage via that with the USB memorry you can get cheaply these days?
Comment by Simon 08.24.05 @ 3:51 amaaah! or even plug in an ipod for oooodles of storage space!
Comment by James 08.24.05 @ 3:26 pmMy understanding is the USB port is not powered so anything usb storage wise would have to power itself i.e. plug into a wall or possibly operate on its own batteries. So current usb memory sticks will not work. The only other possibility would be to use a powered usb hub but this again would require you to plug it into an outlet. This would be ok for some situations but would hamper portability. I’m guessing at this but i assume the usb port on the 770 will have a mini usb connector (since mini connectors dont support power).
Comment by Jason 08.24.05 @ 6:16 pmI still think that the best accessory for the 770 would be a camera. Without a powered USB port you can’t even carry a web cam. Everyone loves pictures, and little CCD cameras are super-cheap.
I would pay an extra $50 to get 640×400 built in, and $150 to get the 1152 x 864 pixel camera that is part of the Nokia 7610!
Comment by Ginger 08.24.05 @ 9:41 pmIf it’s not powered then it could still support an ipod - though I’m not sure how long it’s batteries would stand with the disk being accessed constantly
Comment by James 08.25.05 @ 2:40 pmI gather the reason the decided to use RS-MMC was mainly the hope that many of RS-MMCs in Nokia phones would find they way to N770 as well, i.e. that people would e.g. take pics on their 6680 and view the pics on the N770.
Comment by Viipottaja 09.03.05 @ 1:14 amMy guess is that the previous poster is right on spot about why Nokia went with RS-MMC. However, in my opinion Nokia did a terrible mistake with that decision. Sony did the same thing when they insisted on using memory stick instead of SD in their Clie PDAs, and got flamed for this in almost every PDA review. In the end they folded and left the PDA market.
What Nokia should have done was to use SD instead of RS-MMC, because 1) SD is (unlike CF) small enough by far, 2) SD is as much industry standard as anyone can hope for (every PDA out there, lots of cameras, etc.), and 3) the RS-MMC support should have been done the other way around, i.e. let those who need it use an adapter in the 770. And let the rest of us be able to use our large-capacity, cheap, pocketfull of existing SD cards directly on the 770. We want to use other cards on the 770, this is much more useful than to have other devices use 770 cards!