ok. sony makes proprietary stuff. right.
but they have a special target: the young guys using their mobile phones as media device.
the young guys who are not interested in reading wikipedia neither in porting nmap.
the guys who want the feeling to have "style", content, and connectivity
in their pocket. (in the video they say: you can share video with your frineds).
and that's the way they will sell this machine, this will be the wireless
video-messenger-ipod. did you ever care about the OS on your ipod?
of course, when trying to make an audio recording, but that's it...
sony knows what are the most important features and they will not
lock the mic input as apple did on the 3rd gen ipods..
sony is just waking up another network of users wanting to
watch and share media. does not matter that in the moment you wanna share your first mp3 you realize it is proprietary and the other device does not wanna play it..
you have the feeling of owning it. that's it. and most people will have it for 350.
thanx to the keyboard and the hardware keys allowing to use it as a walkman in your pockets...
they have their target. would you say that the will sell 15 millions of psp in a year if the only thing you can use it for is playing games and listening to music? 15 millions.

the 770 needs a keyboard. that's the message.
and a ready-to-go feeling, advertised everywhere.
as sony does: you switch it on, and you can type.
that's it.