MaemoWiki has a document on becoming a root on Nokia 770.
Evince 0.5.0 is out. What’s Evince? Evince is a document viewer. It primarily displays pdf, though djvu, tiff, dvi, postscript and even comics archives are also supported.
Remember Newton? Apple-branded PDA that some say was a complete product failure, some say was an idea ahead of its time? NewtOS/Einstein now works on Nokia 770. The neat photos are here, the binaries for Einstein are here.
Sean came around the other day and pointed to new strategic licensing agreement between Pepper Computer and HANBiT Electronics Co. Apparently we’ll be looking at a new price point for PepperPad some time soon, so the battle intensifies.
It’s tempting to root for one winner in the battle of Internet tablets, but hey, the cheaper they are, the more benefits there are for the final users and software development community around mobile tablets.
Got an e-mail pointing to this site featuring helpful utilities for Nokia 770. A Telnet client, slocate and Nintendo emulator are currently available.
Quite detailed review from TuxTops with an extensive wishlist of features that are currently missing:
Grainy touchscreen! While the LCD underneath is indeed beautiful, the touchscreen layer above it, is extremely grainy. Very visible mostly when the background is white. It irks me.
No ability to install applications on the MMC card. Just by installing a few third party apps the other night, I was over 50% of the 64 MB of allowance and it resulted in a very limiting experience. No, adding more flash memory to the Nokia internally won’t do it for me because it will always be a finite number of bytes to deal with. I would need the ability the install apps on the flash card, as I can with the Zaurus and PocketPCs.
Can’t get online with your Nokia 770? Get some help in Nokia 770 forums.
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.
Over at the maemowiki there are newly posted instructions of creating a Real Video stream that would viewable on N770.
Russ Nelson tells it like it is: Nokia 770 should be a master, not slave