Thread: Nokia 7700, Nokia 7710 great touch smartphones
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2007-11-27 , 16:48
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Originally Posted by ragnar View Post
The Nokia 7700/7710 (no, it's NOT the "N7710", please stop confusing yourself was a Symbian Series 90 UI powered smartphone. Symbian development focused on the Series 60 UI, for many reasons. As has been released, future versions of the Series 60 will once again support touch screens.

The Nokia 770 (it's not called the "N770"), the N800 and the N810 are Linux powered Internet tablets, built from scratch on top of open source components. There is very little shared with the 7710 device - although Nokia certainly uses some same technological components in multiple products - since the underlying codebase is fundamentally different. It is "not the same product with the GSM part removed".
Exactly. You might also add that Symbian Series 90 was almost painfully slow on the 7700 and 7710 (I think the 7700 was an "extended prototype" -- a bit like the Zaurus 5000 -- and not even meant for sale to the general public).

There was, in fact, one thing that did make it from the 7710 to the 770: Hildon. The user interface on the 7710 is an early version of Hildon on the Internet Tablets.

But that's it. "Darius2006" is making an oversized fool of himself by even suggesting that the two product lines have more than a passing resemblance. Ignorance isn't a bad thing in itself, but flaunting it is...