John, I think it's properly documented in the manual. Nokia USA recenlty released the manuals (english and spanish) online: http://nokiausa.com/support/phones/guides/1,7840,770,00.html Regards, Reggie Quoting "John B. Holmblad" <jholmblad at aol.com>: > 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 > > > > > > >
