Thread: The itT Nokia 770 First Impressions Thread
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2006-03-01 , 19:04
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#67
Originally Posted by Neil McAllister
  • I didn't realize that there would be no way to get an IP address into the device other than using DHCP. This has not been talked about much, but presumably it makes this a device a non-starter for some people.
That doesn't seem to be true; at least, there's a UI for entering an IP address. Connection manager > Connection manager > Tools > Connectivity settings > Connections. Then Edit the connection you want to change, tap Next until you get to the "Connection setup: Complete" screen, then tap Advanced. Tap on the "IP Addresses" tab and you can uncheck "Auto-retrieve IP address:" and/or "Auto-retrieve DNS:" and set your own values. I haven't checked that this actually works, but it sure looks like it ought to.
  • It does feel a little sluggish, which sort of surprises me. I know there are PDAs out there with 600MHz CPUs, but it's baffling that they would need that kind of power. I remember owning a 200MHz Pentium Pro with 64MB of RAM, sometime around 1996. Why can't this machine run like that one?
Well, the flash is probably slower than the disk on your PC, and comparing MHz ratings for different processor architectures isn't very useful. Also, your PC in 1996 was probably running less-sophisticated apps than the N770 is -- I'm thinking of stuff like anti-aliased text (a big deal on a small screen), the preferences infrastructure, Bluetooth and WiFi (dunno how much CPU they require, but probably some), today's Opera versus whatever version of Netscape was common in 1996, and so on.

Personally, I think I'd rather have my N770 than a 1996 PC if I had to choose, because the N770 fits in my pockedt and is with me all the time. (Well, I might insist on a Bluetooth keyboard if the N770 were my only computer. :-)