Tom, does the unit have a user guide for explaining things like configuring wireless settings? If so, I would be interested in getting that in order to understand to what degree the unit supports 802.11i/WPA/WPA2. 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 Tom Rathbone wrote: >Hi All, > >Been looking forward to this for months, thanks Nokia for a chance to >get my hands on one of these babies, looking forward to contributing. > >Anyway, here goes, first impressions. > >Wow it's small! Either the models in the pictures have tiny hands or >mine are huge, who knows? I was also surprise by how light weight it >was. It might just be slightly too large for regular jeans pockets >but if you a baggy pants kind of guy then you could carry it easily. > >Very nice intelligent feeling design, the sleeve is aluminium and was >beautifully cool to the touch having been chilled in the back of the >UPS van. > >Slide the back off, clip the battery in, recover and power on. > >NOKIA > >The Nokia logo appears in crystal clear fashion. After about 10-15 >seconds a dialog appears asking for my choice of region then another >appears asking for a choice of phone. I think I was also asked to >name the device at this point. No bluetooth phone to hand so I >skipped the phone setup. > >My workplace has 802.11g so I attempted to setup the wifi connection, >network found no problems, reports high strength and unencrypted. All >good there. > >Right we're in. The af-desktop looks beautiful. Somehow better than >seeing in in an nested X window, plus all of the menus and >notification areas are populated. Also nice to see is the handwriting >recognition. Everything feels snappy, with just a few delays on >opening some applications, open opened switching between them is very >fast. > >Image viewer, nice simple application but for some reason the supplied >demo images aren't of a high enough resolution to really test out the >zoom and scroll, at actual size they match the screen size. > >Video player, whoops this one is a bit embarrassing, the device had an >8mb video of the Ice Age 2 trailer in it memory. However on my first >two attempts at playing this file it reported that the file format was >not recognised. After selecting the file from the browse dialog for >the third time it decided to play. Play back was reasonable but not >amazing, with just a 8mb video spanning 2 mins it's hard to judge >fairly as the quality of the video is probably not too great. > >Right now on to the web, lets do what the device was really intended >for. Clicking the browser icon I select news.bbc.co.uk from the >preinstalled bookmarks and wait. The status bar makes all the right >noises but nothing appears... hmm something up here so I launch the >connection manager, low signal is reports and only about 80kb have >been received, none are reported as sent. Hmm lets close the >connection and try reconnecting. The connection manager provides a >list of available connections, there are two networks in the area and >the 'guest' network which I had tried previously now reports full >strength. I give it another try. Again it says it is connected but >then in the connection manager window it reports low strength and no >bytes are sent. After about 10 mins of playing with settings and >attempting to refreshing non-loaded web pages I eventually see that >just 2kb have been sent. Something big seems to be up here but to be >fair I don't have another WIFI device to hand to test the connection >so I'll wait until I get home to give it a try. > >Games.. chess, mahjong and marbles. Chess, played on hard, lost, >played on medium, lost, played on easy, lost. Yip the chess game >seems as good as all others at humiliating me but to those who know >how to play it will probably provide a good game. Chess and the other >games all run in full screen mode and the exit button now functions as >a pause button which brings you out to the title screen where you can >choose to continue, restart or simply close the application. Mahjong >is extremely similar (i wonder why?) to the GNOME mahjong game. The >pieces are nice and the stylus is easy to play with. The final game >marbles feels familiar but I'm not sure where from. The board looks a >little like a platform level and has on it several marbles and at >target pattern of marbles that you have to create. Using the stylus >you can select and then send a marbles in any direction >(up,down,left,right) but once in motion it will continue until they >reach a wall or another marble. You finish the level by creating the >target pattern. The challenging, addictive and good fun, I personally >whiled away a good 30 mins and will be back for more. One thing that >majhong and marbles could both make good use of but don't are the zoom >buttons, both games are quite detailed and i frequently felt I'd like >to be able to zoom and scroll the boards. > >Audio, without the network I could only play the include MP3 file, >though the speaker it sounded OK but I think that a set of headphones >would be a must for music listening. > >Handwriting, this isn't as intuitive as I'd expected but seems as good >as any I've used. Using the notes I repeatedly tried to enter "the >quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" as this test every English >character. I only tested lowercase but it took me four attempts until >I could write the sentence perfectly first time. The thing causing >the most trouble was that when the characters are recognised can are >converted to text and left aligned in the text box, if you then enter >another character next to where you entered the first character the >distance between the textual character and the entered character will >be interpreted as a space and an new word will be started. However if >you notice the conversion happening and move to right the next >character at the end of the string then it works pretty well. I had a >few issues going the other way as well where I wanted to insert space >but the characters were just appended to the current string. The auto >completion is very useful and speeds things up no end, though it >doesn't always prioritise words quite as I'd expect. > >Well that's as much as I've had a chance to investigate so far. >Generally I've very impressed and so are many of my workmates, plenty >asking me about the device and marvelling at the screen. > >I look forward to testing out the browser, hopefully it's just an >issue with our network, once I've tested it on our home WLAN I'll >report back. I'm also keen to try installing some third party apps >and seeing just how easy it is to port gnome apps. > >I'm off to play more and start some hacking. > >Thanks again to all the guys and gals that created the device and of >course all the open source contributors. > >Tom. >_______________________________________________ >maemo-users mailing list >maemo-users at maemo.org >https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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