will they get the speed/stability up? contemplating a return
 

for its wrinkles, i still love the device. works for many things, but it doesn't work for one of my biggest reasons for buying it. i can't even browse to one of my favorite sites without the browser locking up or the entire unit rebooting, and pdfs are unbearably slow (a minute to open, a minute to zoom, a minute to change pages - and i'm not exaggerating). i've got the latest os update on it. here are my examples.

slow pdf (504k): http://www.columbiagames.com/resourc...rrulesv2.0.pdf

slow site: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/

maybe disabling flash in opera would help with the browsing...is there any way to do that?

Did you install the 2005 week 51 firmware?

I put my experience with the update here:

http://thoughtfix.blogspot.com/2006/...ps-wishes.html

yeah, i have that installed already.

try the pdf and the page i linked to on your 770. you should see what i mean.

Live via free 770:

Sitting here in Bryant Park, that page built in about 15 seconds. It's a fat pig of a page too, making Load's RAM-O-Meter go into the red.

Russell Beattie recently had a piece about bad web design and the toll it takes on the mobile internet. I think this is one such site.

PDFs are a pain -- even on desktops. PDF Reader here is more triage than must-use.

UPDATE: It wasn't Beattie.
http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006...bile-websites/
http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006...wish-for-2006/
http://www.damnralph.com/PermaLink,g...bc0fd794f.aspx

if the system doesn't reboot when opening the web brower, it "builds" fine for me too. it won't allow me to click any links or scroll though, and i have to manually kill the browser.

pdfs are a "pain" on desktops, i agree, but waiting over a minute between operations is completely unacceptable :(

Astro: Try eVince (I believe it's available in the software section here, otherwise Google it). I found it gave slightly better performance for loading PDFs than the built in viewer.

So far as web pages go (And I realize I'll take flak for this), I'd never think of frequenting sites like newgrounds.com on a mobile. Maybe I'm just being meek for not expecting full functionality, ionno.

In Opera's preferences there is checkbox not to use plugins

yeah i saw evince, was scared away by the lack of an immediate binary and the porter's own comments that it was ultra slow. i'll look back into it.

the boardgamegeek site is far from flash-based, it just has flash advertising at the top. there are also no alternatives to the site, so i'm really stuck if i can't get it to work.

I kept getting kicked out of web sites and program closing after opening too after the update to latest version. Then I did one thing different this time after several reflash. I didn't restore, and it's working much better for me. Try reflashing and configuring everything again.