[maemo-users] Getting started with a 770, tips?

[From: Jake Wasdin]

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:17:42 -0500, chombee <chombee at lavabit.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:12:10AM +0100, sebastian maemo wrote:
>> 2010/2/11 chombee <chombee at lavabit.com> Hi chombee:
>>
>> I do not recommend you to use OS2008HE... Nevertheless, I think I can
>> really help you, since I'm still using 770 and a real fanboy of this
>> device...  I (still) use it at work!!!
>
> Wow! I'm glad I found another 770 user. There isn't much more I can do
> with the OS that came on my 770 right now (OS2006 I think) but I'll just
> keep using it and see how it goes. So far the web browser works but I
> have no shell and email is pretty much unusable, I haven't tried out any
> other apps yet.
>
> I think the last release of OS2007HE looks good. Lots of user reports
> say it works well, and it fixes this WLAN memory corruption bug (which
> I'm going to have to do something about anyway, because with crashing
> applications and a corrupted memory card I think my device may be
> suffering from the bug). Would you recommend OS2007HE?
>
>> First start playing with your new device, and in a few days I'll send
>> you some important tips in order to bring your 770 to full power...
>
> I look forward to it!

I don't know about the N770 in particular as I had the N800, but I can say  
I had much better results with the Minimo browser than I did with the  
built in Opera-based browser before I upgraded to OS2008. I see it's  
available for OS2006 as well so you may want to give that a shot.

Claws Mail is also available for OS2006 which is a great mail client.. I  
actually use it on my desktop as well. It's not perfect on the Tablet as  
far as how intuitive it is (again: I am not speaking from experience about  
OS2006 so I don't know how it differs), but it's a full-featured client  
for sure.