Anyone go from Palm OS to Nokia 770?

[edeab220]

Ok, I love my T|X and all...but it's just really boring. I miss the days when my Palm OS purchases were exciting lol.

I've recently been looking at the Nokia 770, and with all the additional opensource apps available for it (PIM, word processing and the sort) that make it like the T|X, and a much better driver for my ThinkOutside BT keyboard, I'm seriously thinking about buying it.

Anyone here go from the Palm OS to the Nokia 770? What are your experiences with the device?

[Jon_J]

Here's a forum for the 770
http://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showforum=150
It's the same forum where all the different models of Zaurus are located.

Jon

[whydidyou]

Yes, Mike Cane did. Lets just say he was not very happy at all.

OK, now I’m bloody *mad*.

The countless eejits chattering around the web have crossed the line once too often. It’s time to set them straight, shove them back from the line, and show them for the eejits they are!

If I read one more time that a UMPC is “just an overpriced Nokia 770,” I will explode!

Anyone who *has* a 770 can tell you straight: The UMPC is *not* a Nokia 770 in any way, shape, or form.

The 770’s Opera browser mysteriously goes Poof! and suddenly disappears while browsing. I don’t think this will happen with a UMPC.

A site such as Palm Addict takes *over two minutes* to load on a 770. I think it will be a few seconds on a UMPC.

The 770 cannot display embedded video on sites such as Google Video or YouTube. A UMPC can.

The 770 cannot play DiVX/Xvid AVI or QuickTime video. A UMPC will.

The 770 has no browser plug in for FURL. No problem for a UMPC.

Forget word processing on a 770. Its Notes program chokes on as little as 10K of text. And the one free real WP program that’s available is hardly useable because the contortions someone has to go through to have a reliable working keyboard for WP just aren’t worth going through. A UMPC can use any USB or Bluetooth keyboard easily, and there are tons of WP programs available — not just *one*.

Yesterday the 770 I’ve been using for several months had to be rebooted *six times* because of its weak CPU and pathetic RAM. In my first hour of using it this morning I had a crash and reboot. This is its *typical day*. Crash, reboot, crash, reboot. I had a Toshiba GENIO Pocket PC — something infamous for its PPC 2002 OS instability. The 770 is a step *down* from that. Most of you don’t want to know what I call my 770. It is filthy and obscene. *Yet deserved!*

The 770 has a 200MHz CPU with 64MB of RAM. A UMPC will have a 900MHz-1+GHz CPU and most will have half a gig of RAM. If you are *still* dumb enough to think a UMPC is just a larger 770, take your desktop machine and put it in your closet. Replace it with a desktop PC that shares the specs of the 770. Then tell me how the second desktop is just like your original one — only cheaper!

I will be *glad* to exchange the *dysfunctionality* of a 770 for a UMPC with *real* usefulness, *speed*, *compatibility* with all web pages, and the ability to hook up any peripheral.

You eejits harping about the 770 don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. So shut up! shut up! shut up!

And as for UMPC being “overhyped” — baloney. It takes being traumatized by something like the 770 before you can *appreciate* a UMPC. What’s that you say? — it’s just another kind of Sony VAIO U *at less than half the price*? Just what I want! Thank you, Intel and Microsoft!!


http://www.internettablettalk.com/blog/?p=247

[Joel]

Depends on your needs actually. I'll be getting a 770 soon :) Btw, InternetTabletTalk is a sister site of 1src.

[Joel]

My Nokia 770 has arrived and I must say I love it. My first impulse was to treat it as a PDA... which it is not. However I've found apps that makes it a pseudoPDA. Anyway, It's a fantastic internet tablet. Nice form factor, absolutely gorgeous screen.

The Nokia 770 is not for the beginner. It's an advanced device that a well-trained user would love and a willing tinkerer would adore.

[ntw1103]

Hey I have been looking at them, and I was wondering. do them run Java Applets?
I think they run java script, but not sure about the applets.
here is a link to two.Java applet (http://ntw1103.googlepages.com/PanelApplet.html)
other Java applet (http://www.freewebs.com/ntw1103/java/Stargate.html)