kiwidude
11-08-2005, 08:27 PM
With the first thread on the bugs/quirks... Let me qualify these by saying I've been using mine for around 3 hours now and in general I am stoked with it - it looks fantastic and the potential is immense. Still like any "bleeding edge" product it's not yet perfect although hopefully most of these issues can be fixed with some software upgrades.
Some of the problems I have experienced:
(1) Bookmarks - I could only add them to the "root" folder. Try adding a new folder, and it didn't appear on the dialog underneath. Tried again with the same name - complained with an error. Tried again with a different name - no error but still not showing on the dialog underneath. Also tried this through the "Move to" option in the Bookmarks management page and it didn't work there either. Shut down and restarted the device - suddenly the "My bookmarks" folder is clickable and expands to show my subfolders. Something funny going on... As an extra - please make it so the "Move to" dialog has at least the first-level subfolder tree expanded by default to save the extra clicks...
(2) Stability. 3 hours use and have restarted it a couple of times plus closed/reopened the browser a number of times. Seems to freeze sometimes after surfing through a few pages when you then try an action which has a dialog. You click on the "OK" button and it does nothing - you can however press the "Escape" key to back out of the dialog in some cases. Other times I try clicking on a web link to navigate to it and it won't work. Try the same thing with the physical keys, still won't. Close the browser, go to the same page - bingo all starts working again...
(3) Connection setup. Had quite a bit of trouble getting connected to begin with, mainly due to how locked down I had my wireless network at home (Netgear DG834G router). For some "bizarre" reason the WEP ASCII passphrase on the 770 is required to be a specific number of characters (ie. 13 for 128-bit) - whereas the router has no such restriction. Changed my password and that worked ok. Did have some troubles with WPA-PSK initially but tried again now and it works fine.
(4) Connection stability. It "loses" connection a lot. And I don't mean with weak signal and solid brick walls - I'm sitting right now next to the router and it just went again. Of course who's to say the problem couldn't be blamed on my router...
(5) On-screen keyboard. Quite a few annoyances on the layout - for instance, why have a "minus" next to the 0 instead of a period? Fooled me many times - especially when trying to type in IP addresses. Only just realised you can use the physical cursor keys to go forward/back - kept looking for a non-existent on screen key to do that. I can find no on screen equivalents for "End", "Home" or "Del". Also takes some getting used to the spacebar "moving" with the autosuggestions - a few times have just clicked where the space bar was "one letter previously" to then have chosen a word I didn't want.
(6) Handwriting recognition. It's pretty poor - gave up fairly quickly and returned to the hunt and peck of the on-screen keyboard. Does it have any learning capability or is that as good as it gets?
(7) A note for the manual writers - I showed true amateur hour numpty status by not being able to figure out how to insert the RS-MMC card to make it fit. I thankfuly refrained from trying to force it and put it back in the box. Only later when I "tried again" did I realise the RS-MMC has a removable "adapter" - yeah obvious in hindsight but not when you haven't used one of those memory card types before and it's not mentioned/shown on any diagrams I saw...
(8) Speaking of weird - what's with the two L-shaped plasticky bits that look like some sort of stand in the bottom of the box? No mention in any manuals and can't see how they could be at all useful/stable - what am I missing?
Hope the above is seen as "constructive and informative" - as stated I really do like it, honest!
Some of the problems I have experienced:
(1) Bookmarks - I could only add them to the "root" folder. Try adding a new folder, and it didn't appear on the dialog underneath. Tried again with the same name - complained with an error. Tried again with a different name - no error but still not showing on the dialog underneath. Also tried this through the "Move to" option in the Bookmarks management page and it didn't work there either. Shut down and restarted the device - suddenly the "My bookmarks" folder is clickable and expands to show my subfolders. Something funny going on... As an extra - please make it so the "Move to" dialog has at least the first-level subfolder tree expanded by default to save the extra clicks...
(2) Stability. 3 hours use and have restarted it a couple of times plus closed/reopened the browser a number of times. Seems to freeze sometimes after surfing through a few pages when you then try an action which has a dialog. You click on the "OK" button and it does nothing - you can however press the "Escape" key to back out of the dialog in some cases. Other times I try clicking on a web link to navigate to it and it won't work. Try the same thing with the physical keys, still won't. Close the browser, go to the same page - bingo all starts working again...
(3) Connection setup. Had quite a bit of trouble getting connected to begin with, mainly due to how locked down I had my wireless network at home (Netgear DG834G router). For some "bizarre" reason the WEP ASCII passphrase on the 770 is required to be a specific number of characters (ie. 13 for 128-bit) - whereas the router has no such restriction. Changed my password and that worked ok. Did have some troubles with WPA-PSK initially but tried again now and it works fine.
(4) Connection stability. It "loses" connection a lot. And I don't mean with weak signal and solid brick walls - I'm sitting right now next to the router and it just went again. Of course who's to say the problem couldn't be blamed on my router...
(5) On-screen keyboard. Quite a few annoyances on the layout - for instance, why have a "minus" next to the 0 instead of a period? Fooled me many times - especially when trying to type in IP addresses. Only just realised you can use the physical cursor keys to go forward/back - kept looking for a non-existent on screen key to do that. I can find no on screen equivalents for "End", "Home" or "Del". Also takes some getting used to the spacebar "moving" with the autosuggestions - a few times have just clicked where the space bar was "one letter previously" to then have chosen a word I didn't want.
(6) Handwriting recognition. It's pretty poor - gave up fairly quickly and returned to the hunt and peck of the on-screen keyboard. Does it have any learning capability or is that as good as it gets?
(7) A note for the manual writers - I showed true amateur hour numpty status by not being able to figure out how to insert the RS-MMC card to make it fit. I thankfuly refrained from trying to force it and put it back in the box. Only later when I "tried again" did I realise the RS-MMC has a removable "adapter" - yeah obvious in hindsight but not when you haven't used one of those memory card types before and it's not mentioned/shown on any diagrams I saw...
(8) Speaking of weird - what's with the two L-shaped plasticky bits that look like some sort of stand in the bottom of the box? No mention in any manuals and can't see how they could be at all useful/stable - what am I missing?
Hope the above is seen as "constructive and informative" - as stated I really do like it, honest!