Alright, so changing jobs and moving down to sunny California from wintery Washington state takes out lots of free time, as it turns out, so the site hasn’t been updating as frequently as it should. By the way, anyone willing to contribute? Just leave a comment here, and I will contact you, assuming that your e-mail is mentioned somewhere.
First, Howard Chui produced a really detailed analysis of the Nokia 770, with many pictures, screenshots, and descriptions. Nothing really new for anyone who followed the 770 development, but the conclusion is, nevertheless, a bit disappointing:
I’ll be honest, my first impression when I saw the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet was that it looked pretty useless. It’s designed by Nokia yet it isn’t a phone. It looks like a PDA but lacks PIM functionality. What good is an internet tablet when you could have a PDA or a Smartphone? It turns out it’s actually pretty useful for surfing the web. The display is wide and big enough to make it feel like you’re browsing the web on a computer. Plus the 770 is fast enough that if you’re connected via Wifi, webpages load in a snap. On top of that you can always use the 770 as a music or video player though the fact that it uses RS-MMC cards limits the amount of content you can fit.
Then in comments I got pointed to Unpaved Roads article, which in turn points to Teddy The Bear’s blog, who says that Nokia 770 postponement is now official.
About two weeks ago I got an official information from a Nokia representative, who told me, that the Nokia 770 won’t be available in Q3, but in Q4 and definitively before Xmas.
Plus Internet Tablet Talk listed some additions to the software family of Nokia 770.
However, Nokia 770 could be spotted at Engadget event in San Francisco, which I missed, but Om Malik got to play with 770:
The switching between the applications - email, audio player and browser was sluggish, but the Nokia representatives say that it should be fixed by the time device ships later this fall. The four way keypad navigator works nicely and helps you toggle tasks nicely. One of my concerns was that it would be too big to be used casually, but that is not the case. The ultra-bright screen makes up for the size, while it is light enough to be thrown into your messenger bag without inducing any permanent damage to your spinal cord. Now I cannot wait to get one for a full blown review.
Does anyone know if it will support H.264 for MPEG-4? With the 2GB RS-MMC cards coming in 2006, it would be nice to see some feature films in a format which is perfect for a screen like the 770 has.
Comment by Wolfgang 10.04.05 @ 2:09 amAh, seems to be no problem 
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/08/18/linux_video.html?page=2
Comment by Wolfgang 10.04.05 @ 2:20 am