incarnis | # 21 | 2005-12-30, 14:29 | Report

On my 770:

Alpha port of rdesktop...lets me use RDP and looks cool... ;-)

JPB | # 22 | 2005-12-30, 22:24 | Report

Interesting question and the answers are even more interesting.
So the answer to WHAT = is almost nothing.
The answer to WHY = I believe that the tablet goes together with the growing on line applications. Why would they otherwise put in only a tiny 64Mb card?
I have (almost) nothing on my tablet.
Still I do almost everything on my tablet.
Calendar, Pictures, Mail, Family Tree, Time Sheets, Project Management, and soon my bookkeeping.

rjungmann | # 23 | 2006-01-07, 18:41 | Report

hi, i just get mine a few days after christmass. wow what a thing !

i noticed some crashes a lot of time, in web, in news, and especially in email !

i noticed today that nokia europe published on 30 december a software update.
i just applied it, and i must admit that it seem to work a lot better.
i noticed some changes in the web browser, in the keyboard entry thing, a it doesn't crash today !

bonus : you get three games, chess, mahjong, marbles. all good at all, i prefers chekers as chess but...hey it's bonus !

i added pim utility
solitaire
screencapture utility with proc. charge
added gaim, working god with msn at this moment...
i plan to add vnc
and to connect it to a gps.

i added some pictures of subways : paris and london at this moment.

i use it to get my mails, surf...
i read news, the rss feed are nice here...
no need to read mp3 at this moment coz' my w800i does it
as well as fm radio.
but, i have programmed some of my prefered fm radio that streams over the net. i think i will be happy sometime
o listen to it while i'm far

i hope that some games will come.
i hope we will make music with this thing : wave and modules (remember amigas soundtracker ?)
i hope that someone will optime the mame (multi arcade machine emulator) for the 770 soon (for sprites games !)

so keep working and using it it's a revolution coming to computers !

pdafan | # 24 | 2006-01-10, 15:11 | Report

Well, I had ordered from nokiausa.com back in December, but when they didn't send it by their originally promised date, I went and got one for $349 from CompUSA! I'm glad I did.

Intended uses:
- PDA/PIM
- Occasional web access
- MP3 player
- Storing password lists
- Create spreadsheets, read Word and other docs

What I have on it:
- dropbear ssh (I use this all the time in order to use my desktop keyboard!)
- xterm (good port, but sometimes crashes when using tabbed mode)
- vim (what can I say, I'm not an Emacs guy)
- fbreader (don't really use it, but it seems like a nice app)
- lxdoom (for when I have time to kill at an airport)
- CPU load plugin
- Clock plugin (no need for clock on the desktop any more!)

What I've tried:
- GPE PIM. I currently use a Psion 5MX, and that will remain my PDA for the time being. The 770 really needs a robust, integrated Calendar/Todo manager and a better contacts manager. I haven't tried DejaDesktop yet, but I will.
- Xtris : didn't minimize properly to the dock, so I removed it. All 770 apps should play well in this device before being included in the Application Catalog!
- Some other games. Crazyparking didn't even appear in the menu so it's gone.

Mods:
- Swap space partition and ext3 partition. This is a must! I tried mounting my user directory on the flash card, but the machine didn't function normally after that. The swap space really makes a difference in performance even though I seldom have many things open at the same time. I was able to get the ext3 partition to be visible under the "Memory card" link in all the file requestors by making it bootable and settings permissions for "user" and modifying /etc/fstab.
- New screen background, removed everything from desktop. (easy!)
- Rooted
- Modified some menus, created links to / and /home/user in ~/MyDocs
- Pelican PSP screen protector - I can't even tell it's there, and I haven't been able to scratch it. $10 for 2, and I'll bet they'll last for years.
- Opera scrolling button change (easy, you must do this one!)

What's good about the 770:
- Excellent screen, although I find it to be very hard to read in broad daylight. That's not much of a problem though since I'm usually indoors when using it.
- Fast bootup time, excellent wake up time, good battery life, good ergonomics and size.
- Good wifi performance and integration. Easy setup and good options.
- Adequate CPU speed and memory. I seldom exceed 50-75% RAM utilization with the swap enabled.
- Good browser compatibility and speed. Even ESPN.com works! I do have flash disabled. Note: the browser does leave processes laying around after it's done. To automatically kill these, choose Close->All Windows from the menu!!

What can be improved on the 770:
- Allow user to install software either in internal or external flash. This is seamlessly integrated into my Psion and I don't see a reason why the 770 can't do it. It might limit the hot plug USB capability, but I can accept that.
- Continue to improve on the OS and application stability. Particularly the browser and the application installer. The device also also sometimes can't restore wifi after waking up from sleep or especially after coming out of Offline Mode. My Psion hasn't needed a reboot in a year!
- Have the option for more RAM or allow the user to enable swapping from the control panel.
- Allow user to customize menus. I would like to remove the email icon from the dock and further remove clutter from the main menu. I have already removed everything that I can using the hacks shown on this site.

Software wishlist:
- Good PDA/PIM software. I'd even be willing to pay for this, although I don't care about syncing to anything.
- Some encryption mechanism to allow encrypting of arbitrary files. Right now I use Crypto on my Psion. The Zaurus application list seems to have many alternatives.
- A good database program. This could handle a contacts list and a password list for example. The best was back when I had an HP 200LX!
- Open source web browser with a smaller memory footprint than Opera.
- Smaller/faster PDF viewer.

Summary:
- Overall, this is a terrific machine with lots of potential! For a first version, it is really good. Right now I can't really recommend it to a non-Linux geek because of its slowness and instability out of the box. With some small changes it becomes much more usable. In the future there will no doubt be lots of great software to choose from.

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Last edited by pdafan; 2006-01-12 at 14:54. Reason: added a couple points

raminf | # 25 | 2006-01-19, 07:30 | Report

Just got mine a few days ago, ordered directly from the Nokia website. Amazingly, it arrived four days after I ordered it. It took me about 1/2 hour to completely lock myself out It went into an endless bootup loop so I had to flash it with a new image and start over. After a day MMC card was full and I was getting finger cramps from typing long URLs using the on-screen keyboard. I found a good deal on a 1GB SanDisk RS-MMC card and a Think Outside BT keyboard. Much better now.

Things I've tried so far:

- Pairing with a Mac Mini via BT and browsing the mac's disk (couldn't get it to work with bluetooth on an IBM Thinkpad, though).
- Browsing the RS-MMC card as a USB drive from both Mac and XP.
- Connecting to the net via a NetGear 802.11g router with full security (WPA, MAC address filtering, etc).
- Running Python (woohoo!)
- Mounting NFS volumes from a ReadyNAS server.
- Playing back AAC music files from MMC and network mounts.
- Downloading RealVideo to the MMC card and playing it back. Comes out a little pixellated, but otherwise worked.
- Playing streaming audio from a SlimServer box and controlling the server via browser.
- Installing a bunch of prebuilt Slackware-ARM shell tools like korn-shell (courtesy of http://vidar.gimp.org/n770/slackware.phpx).

Things that would be cool to see run on the 770:

- More Python libraries (like networking and wxWidget).
- Flash player higher than version 6.
- Skype.
- GPS, scanner, IR, webcam, camera, and printer (ok, kidding).

This is one of the coolest gadgets I've ever played with. It's got a long way to go before it's consumer-ready (by which I mean, iPod level ease-of-use) but for techie types, it's great.

psychoboogie | # 26 | 2006-01-21, 17:56 | Report

just got mine too.

what would be sweet is a port of synergy. so I could have it on the pedestal and use my desktop keyboard. anybody know if that is in the works.

gesteves | # 27 | 2006-01-22, 15:53 | Report

What I have:
X Terminal
Gaim
GPE PIM Suite
A couple of episodes of The Simpsons

What I've tried:
Abiword: Didn't work. Couldn't open a single document properly.
Slimserver: Had a great time streaming music to the 770, and controlling the music playing on my other computers. I'm still trying to stream music from outside my network, though. Haven't had much luck with that.
Patiotunes: A web remote control for iTunes, works great on the 770.

What I want to try:
Thoughtfix's USB host methods.
VNC.

What I'd like to see:
Kismet, or some other network sniffer. With the range this thing has, it's just begging to be taken for a wardrive.

saint gerald | # 28 | 2006-01-23, 14:22 | Report

Where did you find this? Do you have a link?

Hedgecore | # 29 | 2006-01-23, 19:03 | Report

Gerald: I've seen screen caps and the last I heard it was unable to bring up the keyboard. I would imagine you could use it with a USB or Bluetooth keyboard for now but otherwise you can't get past the login screen. The VNC viewer was able to bring the KB up, hopefully the solution used there could be incorporated into the RDesktop code.

penguinbait | # 30 | 2006-02-07, 00:00 | Report

swap partition 25MB, on 1gb sandisk

Rdesktop, used .deb version with BT keyboard works great, I port would be nice to be able to start it from gui instead command line

Xterm and SSH, an obvious must have

nfsd portmap for mounting NFS

ncftp, great ftp client

telnet client

VNC

gpe-minibrowser some things work in here that don't work in opera

gnumeric spreadsheet

gaim instant messenger

vpnc, cicso vpn client clone, works great

xchat, irc client

evince doc viewer

Maemo Blocks, beats the tar out of xtris

I want NES SNES SEGA emulators !!!!! maybe a DS emulator (turn it sidways and split the screen) That would be cool, that would be really cool, someone needs to work on that