Jan, 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. Best Regards, John Holmblad Televerage International GSEC Gold,GCWN Gold,GGSC-0100,NSA-IAM,NSA-IEM (H) 703 620 0672 (M) 703 407 2278 (F) 703 620 5388 primary email address: jholmblad at aol.com backup email address: jholmblad at verizon.net Jan Wildeboer wrote: > Hi all, > > 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. > > OK, so off we go :-) > > 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 ;-) > > 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. > > 3. Connecting to the WLAN was simple, it listed all available > networks, asked me for the WEP-Key and I was online. > > 4. Browsing was a no-brainer, the screen *is* awesome. But surfing to > http://wetter.de 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). > > 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. > > 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. > > 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). > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > Waiting for comments, > > Jan Wildeboer > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20051020/c4a8f786/attachment.htm
