I would recommend it to my friends.

Um... no. Not quite.

Every time I read the title of this tread NIT...What are they good for. I think of hte old song War... Good God What is it good for. Absoluty nothing.

I've never cared about that. Just another example of the fact that the experience is largely subjectve and not absolute.

Progress on the platform has been continual, and will be so going forward. Nokia is serious about the platform, snide comments by others notwithstanding.

Last I heard the BT was on the list of No-Way! items... Makes it a stronger contender, to be sure.

But why "port" Bluez? I'd gotten the impression it was gonna be much closer to Debian than ITOS is; I'd think they could just use Debian builds. (I'd think we could, too... but that's another issue.)

Okay, prove me wrong. Give me fullscreen, full-resolution, full-framerate video without any stuttering at a bitrate of at least 500 ps.

No rush; tomorrow same time will do.

This so so funny. Reading all these "What is it good for?"-discussions and then comparing it to my own experience...

I still have my good old 770, mainly because the N800/N810 isn't sturdy and portable enough. I could join in and enumerate what it cannot do, what it does badly, where there's room for improvement... Blah!

Matter of fact is: It changed my life. It changed the way I use the internet.

It's always on, always there to be used for short mail, researches in wikipedia while in an argument, whatever is not important enough to wait for the PC to boot (let alone go to the PC at all). It lets me have a quick look of who of my closest friends is online. Its my multimedia player on the train. Its my blogging device when on holiday.

It doesn't do much I couldn't do before. I had internet on my mobile phone, I can do a lot with my laptop, I can install hundreds of programs on my S60-phone... The 770 did not change what I do. It changed when I do it and how often. It's just sooo much more comfortable than whatever else I have with its form factor, its big screen, its well-designed onscreen keyboard and all that.

So that's what it's for: It changes the way you use the internet. Simple, isn't it?

The normal bluez builds compile fine in scratchbox and work fine too (well hcid at least)

But I upgraded my .28 in diablo to the latest .32 from https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/pr.../connectivity/

(Debs are in a web folder of mine somewhere...)

(This all came about when I was (and still am) testing lardman's brilliant work on dsp sbc)

There's a big leap from "no improvement" to what you're demanding, Karel.

But hey, you stick with your legendary bombastic style. It's what we love about you.

See, those are the remarks I enjoy: thoughtful, sober, realistic... no trace of exaggeration or emotion at all. It's useful words like those that contribute to significant improvements.