Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 25th Mar 2006 18:48 UTC, submitted by William Beebe
"The 770 is not for everybody. If you want something for practical day-to-day use, you're better off buying a PDA or smart phone. And a word to Nokia: make nice with Microsoft. I would love to be able to run Windows Mobile 2005 on this device in place of your version of Linux. It's both fast and complete. Trying to impress the Linux geek crowd is not a good business plan, nor is trying to shoe-horn Linux onto this type of platform. Using Windows Mobile 2005 would make this a far better, and far more successful, mobile device." And part II, one month later: "Right now, I feel like I've pretty much wasted $380 on the 770. I continue to work with it the hope I'll find some hidden feature or application I've missed so far."
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RE: Oh my god, the insight...
by ra1n on Sat 25th Mar 2006 19:49
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RE[2]: Oh my god, the insight...
by dsmogor on Sat 25th Mar 2006 20:33
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Member since:2005-09-01
He just wanted to buy 800x400 mobile tablet. He wasn't biased towards any OS, though he was attached to some qualities.
By your logic Gnome devices cannot be criticized because their users for some reason should have been be prepared to whatever low quality standard it offers.
I used to have high hopes for linux mobile devices, but so far all of them seem to carry the same types of flaws again and again.
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2005-07-06
"Maemo is a development wiki"...
Yeah, you can stop reading then and there...
To summarize: the main points are:
* It runs linux, so it sucks! Windows would be much better at everything
* It has little ram, so sometimes things work slowly.
* Not too much installed software, although much is available at Maemo (the development wiki, remember?)
* Sometimes WiFi disconnects.
* Some default settings are not the way the author would have expected.
Oh, and why is OSnews posting _this_ particular persons rant? There are like hundreds of blog posts like this (both liking and disliking the N770). Where is the news value?
Edited 2006-03-25 19:35