Thanks to Nickster for his review here:
Got mine yesterday. Haven’t tested wifi yet as my wifi modem is currently being delivered, but played about with the video player.
The built-in video player tries too hard to display a perfect image. With a 25fps 352×288 MPEG, it drops frames, but gives a crystal-clear image. I’d have forgiven it if it produced a few artifacts but maintained the framerate.
DivX’s aren’t any better - right now I have to encode them to 352×288 @ 15fps in order to get something that would play. It plays flawlessly though, which implies that the image quality/framerate balance is tilted too far over to image quality.
But hopefully there are/will be other media players out there which can handle DivXs that are 702×576 @ 25fps - I’m open to suggestions here.
The display as a whole is fantastic, very bright, very clear, no dead pixels like the PSP has.
Handwriting recognition doesn’t work too well for me, but then again I have untidy handwriting so I’m going to have to adapt.
The User Guide is lacking where it comes to the RS-MMC card usage - it doesn’t tell you that you have to remove half of it before inserting it. I thought the card wasn’t going all the way into the slot, and it wasn’t until I measured the depth of the slot that I realised that half of the card is meant to slide off.
The built-in speaker is very loud and clear, which surprised me.
Charging was very quick, and it’s great that you can use the 770 whilst it’s charging.
The plastic stand that comes with it is cheap and nasty, but is at the right angle for desktop use, but I want a sharper angle so I can rest it on my chest whilst watching a movie in bed.
That’s my review after six hours usage - tonight I sort out wifi:-)
Another evening passes…
Wifi was a doddle to set up, as was installing an Xterm client and scp. Distinctly strange writing shells scripts in bed…
Web browsing is a spiritual experience - everything is so crisp, sleek and smooth.
A few deficiencies though:
* It’s a Linux device, but I don’t have root access (either that or I’ve missed the bit in the manual which tells you the root password - any ideas out there? password, root, r00t and r00ted don’t work for me)
* I really need to access shared directories using SAMBA. I don’t know if that can be done on the 770 - the mount command can only be done by root.
Ideally I want to store all my media files on a central file server and read them on my 770 via the SAMBA share. Any tips out there?
Comment by Nickster 11.10.05 @ 7:07 pmSame experience with the rs-mmc card - had to build up a bit of courage before deciding to break it in half!! Think I’m being really thick with the stand - how does it work exactly? Or am I looking for something sophisticated when it isn’t??
Comment by Tim 11.11.05 @ 4:09 amHave you had much luck with the video player - I want to stick dvd into pc run vlc then watch from 7770. Haven’t found the magic combination of settings. always get ‘unsupported format’
Comment by martin 11.11.05 @ 4:52 amby the way rumour says rootme pwd. i haven’t tried though but google on that and xterm for how to get root
Comment by martin 11.11.05 @ 4:55 am“rootme” doesn’t work for me 
As for the stand, one bit slots on top of the other bit to form an “X” shape.
Comment by Nickster 11.11.05 @ 5:16 pm