Thread: Nokia USA Will Ship the Nokia 770 Novermber 10
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waddell is offline waddell
2005-11-20 , 19:41
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Originally Posted by skase
Spoke with Nokia today. It sounds like the "motherload" has arrived. The rep stated he expects anyone that has an order will get it this week(even the Dec 14 date orders).

After reading many reviews(thanks WADDELL for the review) , the 770 seems to be better for muiltmedia . Since this will be a part time replacement for my laptop, having better res , larger screen and better multitasking capibilities is important. The open source will provide just about any application that is needed. The $50.00 OFF code puts this close to the $300.00 price range. Circuit City has a tempting offer today for the Palm X (249.00) Web Special in store pick . (Best Buy will Match).

To clarify, multimedia is the one area I'm not to sure about. The 770 processor seems a little underpowered for video relative to the screen size, until someone takes the time to use the processor properly. It contain 2D graphics accelerators and it's own DSP,

http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtb...data/omap_1710

so I expect it should be pretty capable. As it stands right now, you can do video,

http://www.internettablettalk.com/blog/?p=159

but not full frame. This is still comparable to what you'd see on a palm device though. The palm is a mature product and has mature solutions for video. The 770 is a young product - so young in fact that I don't even have one yet. I think the 770 video playback software will improve over then next few months, but that's just a WAG.

If video was my primary motivation for getting such a device, I'd get something designed from the start to be a video player, e.g. an archos pmp, or just use a portable DVD player which costs < $200 USD. For me video is around #4 in importance - reasonable performance is all I need on this device.

I guess it goes without saying, but I'd really like to get my hands on a 770 to see what that baby is capable of first hand. My order still says
"open" and processed on nov 14th, so I hope it gets shipped early next week as some people have stated was their understanding of the situation.