N770

[Brian Puccio]

On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 22:23 +0200, Michael Shigorin wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 03:57:33PM -0500, Brian Puccio wrote:
> > However, I just bought a Nokia 770.
> 
> A-and? ;-)

In a word, I think its great. I don't view my laptop as a portable
computer since it needs its own protective bag and I can't just whip it
out while standing in line waiting for something. My Nokia 770 fits in
my pocket and is truly portable. It has an 800 wide pixel screen which
makes it a lot better suited for surfing the web than my Treo was (320
pixels wide meant lots of side scrolling). I took a few pictures:

http://brianpuccio.net/image/tid/312

I also read Planet Maemo:

http://planet.maemo.org/

From there I also found out that it plays Ogg files:

http://blogs.gnome.org/view/uraeus/2005/11/09/0

I'm hoping someone puts together FLAC support and then I won't need to
carry three devices (phone, 770 and iAudio device) with me and save some
money (I don't have the bank account the save of sabdfl).

There are tons of applications for it already:

http://maemo.org/maemowiki/ApplicationCatalog

But to use AbiWord really well, I think I'd need to get a bluetooth
keyboard. Think Outside makes one, but its gray, and I'd really like a
black one to match my already black 770, phone and laptop.

I'd like to see a real mail client on it, I know I've read complaints
from other people. I get several hundred emails a day and don't delete
any of them. Rather I've got a few dozen filters to help me deal with
mailing lists, email from friends, school and coworkers. I'm actually
looking into Horde's IMP and Ingo:

http://www.horde.org/ingo/

And then I'll just use the onboard web browser (there's also talks of
tossing Minmo (sp?) a Mozilla based browser on there as well) for email.

I've been meaning to write up my impressions of the device and post them
on the net for a while, but haven't gotten around to it.
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