[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] First Impression

[From: Stefan Sels]

Hi fellow developers,

I got my 770 and played around with it a bit and just want to share my 
first impression on it.

Design
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I like the visual and hardware design. The sliding protection 
combination is perfekt. Just the arrows on the left are a bit focused on 
right hand folks, but anyway it´s a landscape concept opposed to the 
palm like vertical focused PDAs. A plus is the standard-usb port, it 
saves me carrying cables as it has the same like common as cameras (and 
my PSP)

Software
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As mentioned on this list, the basic PIM apps are not sufficient, I 
expected a seamles integration with my 7650. Dialup to my predefiend 
network provider ends up with unkown server error. But thats what the 
development program is for ;)
Maybe mill planned xmas present to myself (n90) will work (and share the 
rs-mmc card)

I am missing a microphone plug (and voice recorder application). Is 
there a special plug to connect it via the headphone connector?

Surfing the net works fine, while the audioplayer is a bit picky about 
playing streams. www.digitallyimported.com does not work, some other do 
work smooth. Walking around with wireless internet radio is nice.
Setting up a ad-hoc network to my Windows XP based TabletPC with WPA via 
wlan failed for a unkown reason. Got anyone WPA working?

Status

I would like to have some more information from the status/notification 
icons on the top bar. how good is the wlan reception, give the battery 
percentage some where at best while hovering over the icon (did not find 
the voltage status anywhere).

Kernel

I am still in the process of setting up my scratchbox stuff, beware that 
the apt-get source installs version 1.0. I would love to hack the kernel 
and would be interested which parts are binary only. Is there a tun/tap 
device to use tools like openvpn? Is there a bootloader (i am used from 
linux on iPAQ/simpad) ?

As of now I really enoy my device, ScummVM works great, and a game of 
chess shows me that I need to improve my skills. I am looking forward to 
get Tetris, Chess and more games to work via bluetooth and wlan 
multiplayer option.

Regards,
    Stefan