Neil McAllister from InfoWorld joined the discussion after quite a few comments were posted regarding InfoWorld’s fairly negative review of 770. Nokia 770 being a new product category? It ain’t quite so, says Neal:
As for the 770 being an entirely new product category, though… Nokia keeps saying so, but I’m not totally sure I buy it. We’ve seen lots of products like this one before. We call them PDAs. Nokia gave this PDA a better screen than any of the others we’ve seen so far, but it left out the most important part: the PDA software.
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To me, the 770 is the first hand-held product that was designed with web browsing in mind. It’s not a tacked on app that PDA’s have. To that end, the higher resolution screen is a must. PDA’s have been around for years, yet no one has upped the resolution to make a useable web browser.
Also, why hold current PDA’s to such high regard when the Newton was first anyway? People bought up the original Pilot (known as Palm today) because it did the same things (actually less) than the Newton but in a much more compact package. Sometimes size (or resolution, in this case) makes the product more usable for more people.
770: web browser 1st, PDA with extra software second
PDA’s: PDA first, web browser 2nd
That makes a difference, and for some, a new product category. What til copy-cat products come out… and guess which product they’ll compare it against?
Comment by Vinh 01.09.06 @ 3:13 pmWhen am I going to be able to attach to my mac? The developers need to look into some mac support. It seems like an ideal marriage both wireless both bluetooth yet nothing close to a plan to make them compatible.
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