I Just got mine fifteen minutes ago and i love it! I'm using it right now to make this post! the keyboard works better than i thought it would. i heard a lot of people complaining that its slow but i have no problems with it so far. the only thing that bother me is that it's always asking me to reconnect. also, the screen looks like it has a protector over it but i don't see where i can pull it off. i don't know, i might just be stupid or something. i'll post more about it later after i used it for a while.

Country: USA
Purchased From: eBay Power Seller
Purchase/Arrival Date: 3-23-06

Likes:
Portable
Screen color is brilliant!
Excellent Features
Sound is great
Web Browser is EXCELLENT

Dislikes:
Sometimes Slow
Low Memory
Somewhat small battery life, but still good

Favorite apps:
GPSDrive

I really like the metallic cover. But still a funny thing is that I'm still positively surprised whenever I use the 770 without the cover. It's so much smaller and lighter.

I was glad to notice how intuitive the GUI is. Maybe I'd read to many reviews but I instantly knew how the machine worked and what the buttons did. Took a few days for me to intuitively try pressing the "home" buttom long to get up the "running apps" menu, and press the "back" button long to close an app. It was nice that it then did what I had hoped for and intuitively felt it should do.

It would be nice to be able to access the main menu, the menu where one starts apps with a button too. One can do so much without a stylus already. I like it.

Why don't you use your fingers instead of the stylus then?

Yeah, might as well get used to touchin the screen with my fingers, it's quite accurate screen even with ones fingers....

+Great display.
+Runs linux (hence is very configurable and has tremendous potential for pull from the open-source community, a lot of which it has already generated). I mean, just look at this forum and all the 770 blogs/pages/ports already.
+Great web browser; with "Optimized Viewing" pages are squeezed to fit the screen.
+Good text input, esp. with new thumb keyboard. Personally I even like the text recognition but many people dislike it.
+Amazing wireless reception; it detects WLAN AP's that even my Airport Extreme and Linksys cards don't detect from home!
Form factor.
+Supports multimedia, ie. movies, sound, etc.
+Has a port of ScummVM which works great ;)

-Battery life isn't terrific, but not shabby. Charges quick to compensate.
-UI is somewhat laggy/slow to respond (<-- Note: New OS2006 Beta fixes this completely).
-Kinda slow bootup.
-Can't move applets around in homepage (<-- Note: New OS2006 Beta fixes this completely).
-Still needs a good calendar app, but then again this was never meant to be an organizer.
-You need to choose an AP every damn time you close and reopen the web-browser, email, etc (<-- Note: New OS2006 Beta fixes this completely).


One thing I must say, which to me redeems any flaws whatsoever, is the extremely sensitive wireless receiver. I can stroll down my neighborhood, walk into town, and connect to an AP almost anywhere. And I live in suburbia in south-eastern NY! I bet in NYC and other major cities you'd have a connection virtually anywhere. Combined with maemo-mapper and wikipedia.org, this truly is as someone dubbed it, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

+ Runs Linux - all the reasons mentioned before, good stuff
+ Great browser (which I intend to upgrade further with privoxy to filter ads and crap)
+ Can handle my bluetooth keyboard - linux with keyboard, ooh yeah.
+ Runs Linux (can be said twice) so I can use lots of cool tools like ssh, etc.
+ Screen resolution is great

- Screen quality stinks! Compared to my own VGA Pocket PC, it's horrible, with moire ("glitter") and uneven lighting in areas. Probably not bad enough to be a dealbreaker but annoying and there's a big questionmark for how my eyes will like multi-hour e-bookreading sessions on this thing.
- no PIM functionality but I didn't need that so bad either in this

Initial impressions were, basically: "Cool! Feels really solid! Nice controls... ok, let's plug it in... Great, a standard Nokia charger, I can get another one and keep at work! Ok, let's turn it on... What the... did someone place a clear sticker over the glass? What's with the nasty moire pattern?? Mumble mumble... click, tap, click... oooh, cool browser! I love the resolution! Mumble mumble... darn moire... looks like crap... click, click, click.. wow, a working bluetooth pairing and internet access in seconds, great stuff! Boy does PVPOnline.com look great on this, except mumble mumble... darn screen pattern... " etc. ;)

Fascinating. I love the screen. I was going to wonder if Nokia switched LCD suppliers, but I took mine out, and sure enough, I think I see what you mean -- the screen background is a little "sparkly", compared to (e.g.) my Treo screen. It looks a bit like a movie screen seen close up, or like brushed aluminum under bright light. Is that what you're talking about? Totally not something I notice, and not something I dislike now that I've noticed it, but I do see how somebody could be distracted by it; screens are pretty personal things.

I don't see any uneven lighting on my screen, though.

I suspect the amount of "sparkle" may vary from unit to unit, and also I'm cursed (or blessed) by coming from that Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket PC. That screen is absolutely, completely, utterly paper-white when on a white page, and backlighting doesn't vary one iota from one edge of the screen to the other. Of course, it also costs several hundred more to purchase and doesn't have nearly as cool an OS as this one - and while it is very nice, you can definitely tell it's all silver-colored plastic. The 770 has even more of a quality heft to it.

I'm sure anyone coming to one of these from, say, a phone will just be awed by the screen and not be bothered by the moire effect.

It's the digitizer.
 

When you evaluate OS, size, price, etc., etc., etc. the 770 wins everytime.