On 11/30/06, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:28:47PM -0800, Chris Louden wrote: > > I've been quite infatuated with the 770 for some > > time. > I absolutely love it. <aol>me too</aol> > > I know its [sucessor] is just around the corner > I don't like what I see in the leaked pictures. It's ugly. <aol>me too</aol> I seriously hope that the leaked pictures were for some other (perhaps GPS-oriented) device. 'Cos - frankly - it just didn't seem to offer sufficient advantages over the hopefully-now-proven success of the 770. Remembering, of course, that 99%+ of the 770s sold have been, IMHO, *not* on contract, but with the end user paying the full retail price. We're not on the "wait 6 months and see what my mobile telco will offer me to extend my contract" cycle, but have to make the /choice/ to invest. The "skunkware" nature of the 770 that I'd come to understand limited the hardware design to reusing existing components where at all possible (and - sometimes - where it would only degrade the design to an acceptable degree) should make any "dedicated-design" upgrade better *by*definition* - not worse. both aesthetically AND capability-wise. I *really* want to get excited by the "770++". Nokia: "Make it so"</picard> :-) //jcml -- Jonathan Matthews-Levine "That sounds vaguely obscene, and if there's one thing I cannot *stand*, it's vagueness." -- Dean Grennell
