Alex Lee posted his first impressions to maemo-users:
I know a lot of people have been posting 1st impressions but I thought I’d add my thoughts too.
As a developer I’m very impressed with the device. The power management is second to none and I like the overall user experience. It feels natural and fairly responsive. Browsing is truly impressive. Way better than my thousand dollar jasjar.
email is a bit of a let down. My imap account feels sluggish. My on device mail database has become corrupt twice since last Thursday.
To remove the imap account and start again, you have to load ‘inbox’. however when inbox starts up it attempts send-receive and the mail program would crash. I had to offline-mode to delete the account. I also think there maybe a bug in the account input stage. sometimes it just seems to fail for me (I think it’s something to do with the domain, my username is of the form ‘domain\username’.For such a connected device I feel that the Bluetooth implementation is a little strangled. I’d really like to see better obex support. I want to be able to BT a vcard. I don’t want to drop to an xterm to do it! samba would be super-useful too.
I’m also interested in the distinct lack of ‘wake-up’ features. I’m praying someone writes an alarm clock app soon! Some old screenshots showed an ‘alarm bell’ icon in the top title bar, where did it go?
I think my development tinkering will venture into the networking side of things. If I could readily stream video/music/files from my pc that would be a big bonus for the device. currently it’s close, but not quite there, to replace my pocketpc.
You could stream music from your PC to your Nokia 770 if you installed Slimserver 6.2 on your PC. Slimserver is freely available at http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html
Comment by Vernon 11.15.05 @ 4:47 am