[maemo-users] [maemo-users] Nokia 770 Reviewed in Washington Post Newspaper

[From: Koen Kooi]

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david at thekramers.net wrote:
>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/15/AR2006041500125.html
> 
> 
> Interesting article.  The slashdot feedback was just as interesting.
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/04/17/1221247.shtml
> 
> The one thing I disagree with is he criticizes it for not having a
> cellphone built in, coming from Nokia.  I heard someone from Nokia speak
> about the 770 at LinuxWorld, and they had a very good answer to that.
> Cell phone devices are *VERY* heavily regulated, and the manufacturer must
> ensure that the device cannot be modded once home to do illegal things
> (not that they always succeed in this).  If they put a cellphone in the
> 770, they would have had to limit its flexibility, and certainly would not
> have allowed users to flash whatever software they want on it.

Don't forget people who like a small phone to make phonecalls and leave
other funky tasks to other devices (like taking photos or webbrowsing).
I would never buy a phone as big as the 770.

regards,

Koen
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