Russell Beattie, currently at Yahoo! but famous for his blog on mobile technologies long before he joined Yahoo!, shares his thoughts on Nokia 770 Internet tablet. As Russell is pretty heavily involved with developing for mobile devices, this is one of the voices Nokia should pay close attention to, since support from people like Russell usually makes or breaks the platform.
So far he’s critical:
Why no cellular connectivity? WiFi and Bluetooth are nice and all that, but Nokia’s expertise is in mobile. Why go backwards? No hard drive and no support for any cards with decent sized memory (i.e. SD Cards). RS-MMC maxes out at 512MB or maybe 1GB soon. That’s not enough.
Support for relatively niche RS-MMC and lack of support for relatively huge Secure Digital cards is definitely one of the drawbacks of the new device.