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Jan,<br>
<br>
thanks for your insights and comments on first use of the N770. I am
alarmed by your last comment. My interpretation of what Nokia was
shooting for with the N770 was something more "mass market" like, say
the IPOD Nano, or a Pocket PC based PDA, than a geek toy. In fact,
Nokia should remember one of Apple's own geek toy failures, the
Newton. I would like Nokia to succeed with this product, but unless
they get it right in terms of performance as measured by the non-geek
user against what else is available out there, it will fail. I assume
that Nokia have delayed the product launch of the N770 in order to get
it right in terms of performance. As much as I would like to get an
N770 myself I would say to Nokia keep on delaying until you get it
right.<br>
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<br>
Jan Wildeboer wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid4357B984.8010702@gmx.de" type="cite">Hi all,
<br>
<br>
as I am one of th e"lucky" 500 I would like to share my first
experiences with the N770. Be careful, this is just a raw collection
jotted down without really much thinking.
<br>
<br>
OK, so off we go :-)
<br>
<br>
1. Ordering was as easy as 1-2-3. After I got my promotion code, I went
to the online store. Everything went as expected and ofcourse I ordered
express delivery, dammit - I waited long enough ;-)
<br>
<br>
2. Finally it arrived. First impression: This is a normal retail
package of a productr in regular production. There was nothing special
included. I was thinking there would be some CD enclosed with the
maemo development environment or a CD with some developers
documentation, but nothing was to be found.
<br>
<br>
3. Connecting to the WLAN was simple, it listed all available networks,
asked me for the WEP-Key and I was online.
<br>
<br>
4. Browsing was a no-brainer, the screen *is* awesome. But surfing to
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wetter.de">http://wetter.de</a> showed the first problem. The N770 ran out of memory.
I guess that is due to the many little flash stuff on that site (select
munich as a city and something like 20 flash movies are loaded).
<br>
<br>
5. Network connection has its little problems. While scanning for
networks (the little Search ... window is active) you can already click
on one of the found networks. If you do that however, it won't connect.
You *must* wait for the "search" window to disappear before you select
a network to connect to.
<br>
<br>
6. Connecting to the Laptop. I am running a Fedora Core 4 Laptop (IBM
X31 to be precise). After I connected the N770 to USB I tailed
/var/log/messages on the laptop - nothing. Im mean really nothing.
Seems you must send some sort of Wake-Up Signal via USB.
<br>
<br>
7. Battery time. Too early to say something. I will cycle the battery a
few times. Right now it lasts some 3 hours (as promised).
<br>
<br>
8. Handling. A neat desktop stand is included, but the N770 is too
close to th edesktop. When you try to connect the USB-cable and then
put it in the stand it doesn't fit. Let's hope for cool cradles that
also charge the N770.
<br>
<br>
9. Bluetooth. Worked with my Nokia6310. However, it is not of great
use. I cannot sync my address-book with the N770. I am waiting for the
GPE address book, maybe that will help.
<br>
<br>
10. Overall impression. It works. But it is not really complete IMHO.
The RAM ist too small. It is quite slow sometimes. But it is for sure a
perfect must-have for any geek out there.
<br>
<br>
Waiting for comments,
<br>
<br>
Jan Wildeboer
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