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Originally Posted by mike-y View Post
ok, I just looked up specs on the 7700/7710

64mb memory (or 90) is less than n800/n810

Old simbian OS instead of open source linux maemo platform

640 x 320 resolution screen (way less than the 800x480 on the 770/n800/n810)

NO WIFI.

I'm sorry, why would I want one of these old devices? it looks infererior in every single spec category than the internet tablets. Not to mention, you have to pay for a data plan if you want to browse the web. with my 770, I don't need to pay for a data plan, I just connect to a wifi hotspot, and I'm on the internet.
All good points, but the 7710's design is almost 4 years old. You also forgot to mention that it only takes MMC cards up to 1GB, that its videoplayer is incapable of displaying more than 18 fps and knows only of a couple of antediluvian formats.

But, quite interestingly, the 7710 came with a plastic stand that has an uncanny resemblance to the 770's stand. So "Darius2006" was right all along! They're the same!!! OMG!!!!

A couple of good points of the 7710 (some compared to other Symbian devices, others to the Internet Tablets):

- It had true multitasking. My UIQ-based P910 phone switches "Palm-like": if I switch applications, it loses information on a non-predictable basis.
- It came with a portable office suite (Documents To Go, I think. Or maybe QuickOffice). My N800 comes with nothing.
- It had transparent input windows, both keyboard and HWR input area, something still missing in the Internet Tablets.
- It had a better camera than the N8X0. Not that that is much of an achievement, but there you go.
- It had an actual PIM suite! Out of the box! And there's me thinking Nokia doesn't know this is possible.

But mostly it kinda sucked because it had so little memory that it sometimes reported negative numbers. (that last one's a joke, but only just)