Nokia USA is officially sold out. They never officially supported the November 10th date, it was always a rumor, there was a small shipment of units in the United States, available on Web site for less than an hour some time this week, and currently they are sold out.
Normal restocking time for Nokia store is 2-4 weeks, but seeing how this is a new model, they might restock sooner, so check the Web site.
Ben says Nokia on the phone confirmed they’re sold out in the United States. How come?
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Anza posted a review here:
Wifi works nicely with my PC using a shared Internet connection over WLAN ad hoc network. Pages open nicely on the browser. Speed and rendering are as good as one can hope.
Got my 770 today and I was genuinely surprised. I have seen all the previous Nokia multimedia devices based on Symbian OS. N770 on linux really kicks the ass of the communicator lineup when it comes to browsing.
The UI is conventional and easy to use. No nonsense buttons scattered on the device.
Video and audio works nicely, considering that the 770 is not optimised just for this kind of use. I guess a bigger memory card has to be aquired.
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A discussion on LinuxJournal brings up interesting point - can you use Nokia 770 with a GPS device to have some cool things, like in-car navigation and directions (provided you got the right software)? Russ Nelson suggested DeLorme BlueLogger (reviewed here), a $149 Bluetooth GPS receiver.
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Thanks to Nickster for his review here:
Got mine yesterday. Haven’t tested wifi yet as my wifi modem is currently being delivered, but played about with the video player.
The built-in video player tries too hard to display a perfect image. With a 25fps 352×288 MPEG, it drops frames, but gives a crystal-clear image. I’d have forgiven it if it produced a few artifacts but maintained the framerate.
DivX’s aren’t any better - right now I have to encode them to 352×288 @ 15fps in order to get something that would play. It plays flawlessly though, which implies that the image quality/framerate balance is tilted too far over to image quality.
But hopefully there are/will be other media players out there which can handle DivXs that are 702×576 @ 25fps - I’m open to suggestions here.
The display as a whole is fantastic, very bright, very clear, no dead pixels like the PSP has.
Handwriting recognition doesn’t work too well for me, but then again I have untidy handwriting so I’m going to have to adapt.
The User Guide is lacking where it comes to the RS-MMC card usage - it doesn’t tell you that you have to remove half of it before inserting it. I thought the card wasn’t going all the way into the slot, and it wasn’t until I measured the depth of the slot that I realised that half of the card is meant to slide off.
The built-in speaker is very loud and clear, which surprised me.
Charging was very quick, and it’s great that you can use the 770 whilst it’s charging.
The plastic stand that comes with it is cheap and nasty, but is at the right angle for desktop use, but I want a sharper angle so I can rest it on my chest whilst watching a movie in bed.
That’s my review after six hours usage - tonight I sort out wifi:-)
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Looks like Nokia is havind hard time with high demand for 770. TechSauna quotes an e-mail from Nokia asking to wait just a bit more:
We have received your order and are processing accordingly.
However due to unprecedented demand for the product, the delivery will be slightly delayed.
Estimated time of delivery is end of November 2005.
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InternetTabletTalk runs a compilation of user reviews.
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Marc Maurer released a new and improved AbiWord package for N770.
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Business Week’s Dialing Up Linux is a feature story on phone manufacturers’ venture into the open source world. In Linux Answers Phone Makers’ Call the magazine mentions Nokia’s 770 among others:
Even Nokia, which owns almost 50% of Symbian, leaves open the door to working with Linux, says Jorma Ollila, the top cell-phone maker’s CEO. “We will put all our weight” behind Symbian for smart phones, he says. “But at the same time, we are working with the open-source and Linux community, so that we have the readiness to use Linux more in the future if we decide to.” Nokia has already announced a Linux mobile device, the palm-sized 770 Internet Tablet, with a bright, landscape-oriented screen and Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technology, which enables high-speed wireless Internet access.
However strong the Linux draw may be, Symbian and Microsoft still have certain technological advantages. Both take little configuration and are virtually identical from one phone to the next. That means third-party developers can create off-the-shelf software programs for either. For instance, more than 4,100 applications are now available for devices running Symbian. Not so with Linux.
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