Re: Return 770 and get new n800?
 

Agreed.

Apple's cellphone appears to be nothing more than a regular smartphone, with a different operating system, a YACIP (Yet Another Cumbersome Input Paradigm), a mediocre screen and a high price.

Rather sad that the company that invented the Newton stoops down to this level. Even Microsoft could do better.

Re: Return 770 and get new n800?
 

AFAIK, there is not a single application (other than some bundled ones) which has any dependency on direct hardware support right now, and going by the fact that 2006 apps seem to work on the N800, the 2006/2007 transition broke neither core libraries nor the ABI.

With the N800 about, some applications will eventually appear whose memory footprint makes them useless on the 770, and a few will need hardware float, 3d or extended video codec support to acheive reasonable frame rates or be playable at all.

But all stuff that is not memory, CPU or hardware bound (that is, presumably everything except 3d games and extra formats for the video players) will run across platforms, at the very least after a simple compile run - just like pretty much every userland application can be compiled to run on arbitrary Linux distributions and computers across the last five years or so. The only application-breaking step in Maemo so far was the 2005/2006 transition, which broke the core libraries and ABI format - but another ABI breakage won't happen (seeing that there is no newer ABI for the platform), and any libraries could be backported by the community even if Nokia does not do it.

Sevo

Re: Return 770 and get new n800?
 

I'm sure the support available to you right here is just as good, if not better ,than Nokia. Just ask.



I did exactly that. I saw the N800 post on digg.com on Sunday, which happened to be the *last* day I could return my 770 for a refund. I hesitated, since it made feel slightly dirty to return it for no good reason. But I'm very happy to have done so now. It's a really nice upgrade.

Re: Return 770 and get new n800?
 

Yeah, and get locked into Apple's media DRM. No thanks!

Re: Return 770 and get new n800?
 

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!

The iPhone will have a re-sale value of Sweet-Fsck-All.

It has a non-replaceable battery and you won't be able to sell it for 2 years as that's the contract it's going to be tied to. So in June 2009 after two years of use, the screen will likely be buggered, the battery will definitely be buggered, two new generations of iPhone will be available and your iPhone will not be worth the ebay fees it would cost to sell it!

Re: Return 770 and get new n800?
 

Thanks for all of the feedback! I admit that the 770 is quite impressive in screen and wifi capability. Plus I've had little problem with the packages that came from third parties compared with the ones direct from Nokia =)

Considering there may be a "restocking fee" on return, I'm still undecided. I was really looking for something to handle web browsing, streaming audo (daap especially), and the occasional vid. Also possibly with a calendar w/todo, but that can easily be handled via a web app on one of my desktop boxes.

If I can get some of the streaming media working this weekend, I will likely keep the 770. And then spend time brushing up on my Python =D

Re: Return 770 and get new n800?
 

Not, if all the developers switches to n800.

Re: Return 770 and get new n800?
 

BTW, if your 770 got a WSOD, then you could send the 770 back to nokia, and get a refund. Then buy yourself a nice n800, after b1tching and whining for a month(according to nokia repair process for 770), then wait another month for the refund check to show up.