A good review from Slashdot discussion yesterday:
I’ve had one for a week now. It’s great.. except it doesn’t reliably connect to my Netgear router at home, and everything else does including a Nokia 9500 Communicator.
Sure, there’s a lot of other traffic going on in the same frequency band with thing like the neighbour’s wireless access points, DECT phones and the like but NOTHING seems to make this connect reliably.
At work, with less interference I can connect just fine to a bog standard access point. Also, no problem with any Bluetooth phones (I use a Sharp).
Despire the wireless connectivity issues - the 770 ROCKS. The 800 pixel wide screen is actually smaller than you’d think though, it’s just very high resolution. The screen clarity is excellent. The web browser is excellent, plus there’s a so-so RSS reader and an email client which I haven’t used yet.
The interface is quite simple and easy to learn, although a few minutes studying the slim manuals that come with it is a good idea. Windows users shouldn’t have much trouble adapting.
When I ordered mine I got a letter explaining that I was one of the first people to get a 770, and Nokia would like to have an interview with me to find out what I think, so I’ll mention the wireless connectivity problems then. Other than that, it’s great. Good quality web access no matter where you go, and it does a (limited) range of multimedia too.
One thing I can’t figure out.. how can they make something this sophisticated for that much money? They can’t be making a profit on it!
I am sure they make a lot of money on it.
Have you read about $100 laptop?
http://laptop.media.mit.edu/
Hardware is very cheap to manufacture now…
Would you believe me if I said the Nokia 770 COSTS (parts alone) less than $80! Now add a small labor and production cost, plus branding and packaing, an you’re still under $120 PER UNIT!
Comment by Jonathan 11.28.05 @ 8:01 amJonathon: “Would you believe me if I said the Nokia 770 COSTS (parts alone) less than $80! Now add a small labor and production cost, plus branding and packaing, an you’re still under $120 PER UNIT!”
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Would I believe you… probably not 
Where do you get your facts from?
In any case when you consider development costs of producing new hardware and a new OS, you’ll realise that they can’t make a profit in it’s current form. Only techies and developers are buying it right now. That population is not big enough a sole target.
But like Microsoft and the Xbox, Nokia are big enough to sell it at loss while the platform is being developed. With Nokia’s rate of development, there’ll probably be a ‘790′ in the works before you know it…