[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Wonderful device from Nokia...

[From: Wooky]

I also have great expectations for N770. It seems that it can achieve
an important milestone in Linux-based PDAs, and suceed where others
have failed. While I disliked the marketing of the N770 as a simple
"internet tablet" at first, since it was obvius that it had the
potential to be much more than that, it actually makes sense. It can
have a greater penetration in the not-so-Linux-inclined market that
way, specially considering there is nothing remotely similar with its
intended price tag.
I had a friend who had a Zaurus once, and he complained (of lack) of
available software, compared to Palm and PocketPC devices, and
expressed his fear that might too happen to the N770. I pointed him
some of the projects already ported and showed how easy was to port
existing GTK+ apps to Maemo. Since we live in Brasil, I was specially
happy with the work of the guys from INdT (which I had never heard of
till now) with Python in Maemo.
It's time there was a developer, open-source friendly PDA in the
market. I sure hope the N770 will be a thundering success - and I also
hope it will be available here in Brasil as well.

Jeferson Lopes Zacco


> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:52:43 +0300
> From: "Karoliina T. Salminen" <karoliina.t.salminen at nokia.com>
> ext MetaVoid Developer wrote:
> 
> >
> >how this wonderfull device from Nokia came to life.
> >
> >
> Yes, indeed, it is a quite cool device and I have to admit that it is
> wonderful thing to have it
> in the handbag everywhere.
> I have the privilege to use a prototype and I am beginning to wonder how
> anyone could live without :). Actually I don't need to use laptop for
> browsing
> some web page at home, just tap the 770 screen and the web page is there
> and when
> on outside the home, the device seamlessly connects through my GPRS phone
> (we of course have wlan at home - we have used it for years, even when
> it was
> not so cheap, but now anyone can buy a wlan base station since they have
> now became
> cheap mass market devices and the wlan is no longer fun of the early
> adopter persons anymore alone).
> And because of the pretty impressive screen resolution (especially with
> considering the physical dimensions
> of the device), it is pretty well readable too and is not
> a reduced web-experience the devices with lower screen resolution tend
> to offer but
> fully usable for web browsing, etc. But this is just my humble opinion
> and I have nothing
> to do with any product marketing stuff etc. :) I will propably equip my
> device with a 256 MB or 512 MB RS MMC
> since I have found it to have also very good quality headphone preamp which
> works fine with my Sennheiser HD-600 headphones (which are known to have
> problems with worse quality headphone amplifiers (e.g. in my old Fujitsu
> Lifebook notebook I have
> had some distortion problems) because of the abnormally high impedance
> they have) and of course
> the connector is a real headphone connector which is cool too, no
> additional adapters needed.
> I don't have a dedicated mp3 player so far, so I like to use the N770
> prototype as a mp3-player.
> The playback time when the screen is off seems to be a lot longer than
> the browsing time before the battery runs out.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Karoliina Salminen
> karoliina.t.salminen AT NOKIA DOT COM