Pycage has been active with his impressions of Nokia 770.
- Interesting review of why 770 is addictive
- More of the same
- gDeskCal for Nokia 770
- Supporting Ogg Vorbis on Nokia 770
T3, world’s #1 gadget magazine, as they proudly claim on their Web site, reviewed Nokia 770 accompanied by gratuitous shots of scantily clad women (so there are even more reasons to check their review!)
They seem to like it:
You’re going to need a pair of slacks with some pretty cavernous pockets to carry around Nokia’s new 770 Internet Tablet, because this purty portable boasts a massive 800×480 widescreen.
LinuxDevices: Maemo developers appraise Nokia 770 prototypes
Mike Rowehl: Some first impressions of new Nokia 770 accompanied by.
Also, comparison of Palm Tungsten and Nokia 770:
A review of another happy user:
The software that comes with the developer device still has some flaws, but that was to be expected. Localization is perfect, but the video player crashed the OS the first time I tried to access the IceAge2 trailer video clip, and the unit rebooted. - Ah! As I’m writing this, I’m just geting an optical and acoustical warning that the battery is nearly empty. This is really nice and gives you enough time to close any open applications. - The second time I tried to watch the trailer I got an “unknown file type” error, but it worked afterwards. On testing I’m still getting ocassionally “unknown file type” errors. The audio player lacks a convenient method to add whole directories for playing, or I was not able to find it, which would mean it might be not intuitive enough. I put some MP3 files on the RS-MMC card and built a playlist by hand. The player seems to forget this list occassionally, however. At least I had to rebuild it three or four times until it kept stable.
Hmm, I sense another delay.
Koen shares his first impressions of Nokia 770. I will just quote the negative ones, you can read the entire posting on his blog.
- Opera sucks. It’s slow, unstable and evil.
- The email client doesn’t handle imap folders
- The filemanager freaks out on bluetooth transfers
That’s bound to generate a few negative reviews, but nothing that’s a deal-breaker. I went to a speech by Opera CTO recently, where he pointed to the fact that Opera currently enjoys larger market share on mobile devices than this Redmond company. Let’s not misunderstand - Opera is betting on mobile devices, and partnership with Nokia is one of their most promising ones, especially if you consider Nokia’s latest numbers. So hopefully some time soon we’ll see a 2.0 release, if Opera performance is dismal.
Nicolas: I received today my new shiny toy, the Nokia 770. Large photos.
Nacho: Finally, my 770 arrived today, I’m still testing all features. Highlights? the screen is amazing, Maemo doing his work, WiFi without problems.
maemo-users for October 2005: Tom Rathbone, his followup, Jan Wildeboer.
770Fan (man, you’ve got to change the URL to something easier to remember) points out some specific features that make Nokia 770 stand out from other Internet-enabled handhelds in the market right now.
Number 4 is the Nokia 770’s 800×480 screen. No PDA on the market has a 800×480 screen. The highest resolution is VGA at 640×480. Does the screen really matter on a handheld device? In this case it does. Most web pages are designed for 1024×768 and pdas have a really hard time shrinking the page to a considerably smaller size.
RandomType provides a pretty good review of Nokia 770 with tons of photos.
The surfing experience is incredible, and the machine is everything but slow (as it was stated on some blogs around). Javascript is handled correctly (this blog works great, even the show/hide news body function), and flash 7 is rendered ok (although I’m having problems with some new stuff I’ve developed using XML. Probably the browser interface is not immediate, but you can live with it.
With strong JavaScript support I wonder how well fat clients like Gmail, new Yahoo! Mail Beta or NetVibes work on 770.
Karoliina: How it feels to work with Nokia 770 Internet Tablet?
Apparently Karoliina was also doubting the device future without the GSM/GPRS connectivity, but after some usage it all worked out:
Nokia 770 connects seamlessly to my phone and downloads pages faster through bluetooth than the phone would do by itself with its own browser and instead of seeing just a little part of the page, I can see full pages with no problems with the 770.
Mikeyp is disappointed with the decision to postpone Nokia 770:
I’m looking forward to getting my hands on a Nokia 770 Web Tablet. This thing looks like it could be the ultimate web appliance, not only for portable applications, but for household uses. Being Linux-based with