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Originally Posted by mike-y View Post
and I hate to admit that I actually liked it (mostly). I really just used the browser functions, since that's what I was really interested in.

Overall, it seemed to be faster and more responsive than my 770. The keyboard was easy to use for me, and faster than using the stylus on the 770, since you can use two hands (fingers?) to type with. I don't have huge hands, so it worked well for me.

The browser scaling works really well, and you don't really notice that the screen is lower resolution than the nokia ITs. Pinch zooming works beautifully, as does the inertial scrolling. The way you navigate through multiple browser windows is very nice too. Somone at nokia really needs to spend time with apples UI, it really is one of the best I've used on a small device in some time. it also has a built in PIM, which I didn't really look into much, other than scrolling though the calendar.

Now for the bad: Price, of course, is a bit steep $300 for 8gb, and $400 for 16gb. I guess compared to a new n810, its not bad, (but I got the 770 new for $120). No SD slot or expandable memory, though 8gb (or 16gb) is much more than what you'd get with most of these devices out of the box. My 770 is pretty much limited to 2gb storage because it uses MMC cards.

and the worst part of the whole deal is NO FLASH SUPPORT. I went on MSN.com and went to the videos page and it said the browser is not supported. This is pretty much the deal breaker for me, since so many sites use flash content these days.

If it wasn't for the flash issue, I may have been tempted to plunk down $300 for one. Maybe in the future, someone will port firefox over with apple's new devkit, who knows. I still need to get my hands on an n810 though, and see if its as snappy and responsive as the touch. but if apple does release a dedicated internet tablet, or resolves the flash issue in the next generation touch, I may end up jumping ship. Actually, I've been ready to replace the 770 with something else for a while now, but there is nothing out there that I see as a significant improvement.
And why is flash support really necessary? I read that apple decided not to support it to make the browser faster. I think flash is a major resource hog and is used in most cases by advertisers and some crooks to basically take control of your browser to show adverts that you do not want to see.
Flash scripting is a major security risk and many turn it off anyway ( i do) just to not be annoyed by the eye candy.
there is a heck of a lot of bad flash out there that is not worth having to see.