[KLUG Advocacy] The Nokia 770 a flop?

[Mark Szidik/mlc]

I actually bought one yesterday (an impulse buy)  at CompUSA for $349.  My
employer gives me a small fund for training and research type stuff, so I
didn't have to shell out my own hard earned dollars.

In the two hours that I spent playing with it yesterday it has made the
following random impressions:

1.  Beautiful display - by far the best that I have seen on any portable
device  (800x480 give a decent amount of real estate)
2. Text input is painful - you really do need a keyboard.  Tapping out
characters on the on-screen display gets really old really fast, I hav not
really given the handwriting recognition a try.
3.  Bash works as expected, I have yet to get SSH working, but the
instructions are pretty clear
4.  Installing packages is really simple - they are apt packages
5. Wireless (Wi-fi) works well for me, have not tried bluetooth (no
devices)
6. Made in Estonia
7. Nethack works well
8. Web pages (/., yahoo, google) load well and are quite readable, easy to
scale text size up and down with a hardware button
9. The news reader (RSS)  works even better (probably the best application
of the device)
10. It is rather slow, but the recent v3 of the system software has
improved this a bit
11. It comes with an removable RSMMC card (64 MB) that when plugged into a
machine via USB appears as a mass storage device
12. Solidly built
13. Much nicer overall package than Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 that I had a few
years back (except for the missing keyboard)
14.  Gaim works
15. Image viewer is nice


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Mark Szidik, CIO
Michigan Library Consortium
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First real review of the much-touted Nokia 770 that I've seen:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/01/02/01OPopenent_1.html

Doesn't sound good.  But it is a cool idea.
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