A Slashdot user review:
I’ve had my 770 for a week now and so far I’m very happy with it!
I have seen many posts wondering why you’d want one, so here are my reasons.
- I want to have something to browse the web where a laptop is not appropriate, like in the bed or TV couch (I dont want to sit awkwardly leaning down to the coffetable or balancing the thing on my lap)
- I use it as an extra MP3 player in the kitchen, streaming music from my server. When used like this I have external speakers and the power chord plugged in. Since there are lots of wifi MP3 player I can’t be alone in having a need for this functionality.
- It can act as a pretty good divx player on the road but I haven’t really used it for that yet.
- It’s really cool!
This might not be enough for everyone but I have wanted the websurfing part of it since the term webpad was first coined somewhere in the late 1990s. And this is the first one that really delivers on the promise at a decent price point.
I never wanted the tablet pc’s becuse the ones I have seen are all laptops without keyboard which means that they are expensive, heavy and not really designed to surf the web on the go.
The fact that it runs Linux and potentially can do a lot of other things is pure bonus!
Many people have questioned the lack of a phone in the unit, but I can’t really see why I would want one.
If it had a phone, lets say a 3G one, it would need it’s own subscription or a dual subscription if possible, would be heavier and use more battery.I honestly think that it is much better to use my allready existing phone and subscription through bluetooth. Right now that is a GPRS phone but may soon be uppgraded to 3G, if it had been built in I would not have had the possibility to uppgrade it either.
I guess I should include a little min review also, so here goes…
The good.
- The build quality of the thing is excelent. Since most Nokia phones are plastic little massproduced toys that feels like they will break if you look at them funny I was suprised by this. The 770 feels like it could stop bullets
- The browser, so far it has handled most pages I have thrown at it with ease the pages have been shown in all their glory without having to slim them down to the screen. (Try that on a Palm!)
- The battery life, the stated 3 hours must be while stressing the unit hard, for normal use it lasts a looong time. The powermoding is excelent!
The bad.
- The 64Megs of RAM is a bit to little, the browser suck quite a lot of it and becaus of this it has problems with really large web pages.
- Memory handling in general is not the best, it takes a little to long to load programs.
- I expected that it would include a real dockingstation with power but it came a flimsy plastic stand a standard nokia charger.
Comment by jaek 11.17.05 @ 7:22 amobviously you do not own a smart phone from them. i had a 6600 and a 6620 and they are rock solid. i can let my 1 year old nephew play with it (running baby toy software) without having to worry about it.
I’m wondering if there is an option to disable pics or java. That could be a work around for the intense web pages. But mostly I bet it is a software issue. Once they can “perfect” the memory handling it will probably be smoother. I am under the impression that Nokia rushed this out so that they can get the word out. But I expect many software updates to come down the pipe that will better things.
Comment by aram 11.17.05 @ 11:48 pmMy comment above was really proved to me once I updated my phones Opera software to 8.5. My phone(6682) only has 10mb of internal mem, and it is moving pages awesomely without the accelerator on. Software programming is the key.
Comment by aram 11.17.05 @ 11:51 pm