Reggie, thanks for the pointer. I will download and review them. 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 reggie at internettablettalk.com wrote: >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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20051020/f2bc0c35/attachment.htm
