I have been planning something similar to try host USB. As for the 770 availability -- "Me Too". My date got pushed to Dec 15th and now it is "sometime in January." While polite, the people at the Nokia Order Center don't have any information. And the company certainly isn't trying to explain anything to the people who have orders placed. If anybody from Nokia is reading this list maybe they could point out to Marketting/Sales that customers aren't big fans of being kept in the dark. It's not like you don't have our email addresses -- we all get an order confirmation to it. Clearly Nokia intends for this product to be popular so maybe they could put some effort into the people who have placed orders. The best product can't overcome bad publicity. There are a number of ebay scam auctions for the 770 though! It seems to be one of the popular scam items... Kurt On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:22:26PM -0800, Mark Krueger wrote: > I bought this rechargeable battery equipped USB 2.0 hub with this > purpose in mind: > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002UQALQ/103-5821554-9147053?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=172282 > > I also bought this mini-usb to normal-usb adapter to connect it to the 770: > > http://store.yahoo.com/abccables-store/ca-000306.html > > My thought was to try it all out, and see what devices (keyboards, iPod, > USB Storage, etc) I could get to work. If it worked well, I could > solder a longer cable onto the hub with the mini-usb connector. > > Unfortunately, the 770 appears to be vaporware in the US, so I may never > get to try it out. (quoted delivery date of 18th of November on my > order, now the word is sometime in January) I'll probably cancel soon > out of frustration. > > I thought Nokia was a professional company, but I've never seen > misquoted delivery dates with zero customer communication like this -- > I've received all of ONE email from them (order confirmation). Do they > honestly expect customers to silently wait months to take delivery of > their product, with no communication at all? Sorry for the OT; I'm just > angry. -- /** * Kurt Mahan kmahan at xmission.com * * "Did I say that out loud?" */
