Hello John and all Let me reference specific topics from the article to justify my thoughts: 1. "Opening a single browser window taxes the device's limited resources; open the bookmarks window too and you're likely to get an "out of memory" error. Complex pages can crash it altogether. " I use the internet browser a lot. most of the times I keep the bookmark screen open, and the news feed reader. I have never encountered an "out of memory" message in this configuration. The browser also never crashed on me - not even once. 2. "The 770's Wi-Fi networking, its lifeline to the Internet, is finicky" I have used 6 different wifi network in the last 4 weeks. didn't have even 1 problem connecting to a network. 3. "Only specially formatted videos will play back at a normal frame rate" The device comes with a specific codec installed. So does windows..... soon new codec's/player will appear - this is how it works. Please note that I use the latest image offered on the nokia site. nothing special here. So after using the device for some time now, and then reading the article , I got 2 totally different ideas of the same product... This is why I wrote "unjustified". I do agree that there are glitches. The PDF reader, and the Email client (which - as the author said - are being worked on) are bad. But this is why you get software updates for free... and you can be sure that updated and new software will pop out a lot quicker than in the commercialized mobile O.S.'s around. This is how the open source community works. So to sum it all up - nokia came out with a totally working idea of a small web tool : It is small and lightweight, but with a screen big and clear enough to browse the web. It has a browser that will present ~90% of the web out there with good options to zoom when needed, it support internet radio, feeds, and will soon allow VoIP (as I heard). This is where the Palm/Smartphone/Ipaq market is currently lacking (and anyone who tried really browse the web from either of these devices could testify). If you have a mobile phone with a GPRS contract - you can be connected to the web almost anywhere, and you have tool to get you the information you need. And all of this is completely out of the box. So - calling it an ugly duckling ?? common... Elad ________________________________ Von: John B. Holmblad [mailto:jholmblad at aol.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 20. Januar 2006 17:34 An: Messing, Elad Cc: maemo-users Betreff: Re: [maemo-users] Bad unjustified reputation ? Elad, thanks for pointing out the article. Having read the article, I have to say that, aside the poor choice of article headline on the part of the author, I do not agree with your overall assessment of the article. I thought the author's overall assessment was actually reasonable.
