CyberSystem.de: Movies on N770
You need to have your bluetooth stick working first. Gentoo users should read the first parts of the host to host bluetooth howto, other distro’s should consult the proper information on the community forums/wiki. (Don’t scan for other devices yet, just setup your kernel and BlueZ.)
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.
A lucky owner reports from Europe:
My Nokia 770 finally arrived. lts the first time l experience Linux as a consumer product, even though l’ve been using Linux as my primary OS since 1992. The sensation is quite strange.
My first impression is: WoW!!
New addition to the Nokia 770 games compendium: Nako“>Nako
Johan Paul, a lucky owner of a 770 (through a developer program) wrote in to introduce his blog on 770.
Heh, today I browsed the web while waiting for the bus. Yes, at the bus stop in the center of Turku
Interesting to see how many open WLAN networks there are and I think I accessed the web via a WLAN offered by a restaurant for the customers.
Useful and crucial for viewing home photo/audio/video collections: accessing your desktop filed from networked 770.
Image of Nokia 770 bundle.
InternetTabletTalk runs another batch of reviews.
Teemu got his 770.
More photos of the package.
Neil Cherry ordered his 770 when it wasn’t sold out yet.