Thread: Popularity of Nokia 770?
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2006-03-07 , 19:19
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Originally Posted by Hedgecore
Not to reignite the old hardware debate, but if they start cramming more into this thing, it'll rival a laptop in price - - no thanks! What I *do* think would be a marvellous idea is if they could possibly halve the internal storage to 32MB (big enough for your documents, etc) and use the other 32 for a swapfile. Would that make it more prone to failure to do the abundance of R/W activity? Ionno.
If they replaced the flash memory with normal RAM, the R/W failure would be out of the way. But, obviously, using RAM for a swapfile is kinda dumb: use RAM for -- well, RAM.

The best thing that could be done for the 770 is IMO still the complete removal of Nokia's Linux "distribution" from it and replacing it with something more lightweight, either Qtopia or GPE based. It would run circles around the original 770 with the same hardware. See the Zauri, or Siemens SimPad, the one with Linux installed.