Hello, as you can probably tell, I'm new here... I've had a look around, read a few posts and you all seem very nice, so I was wondering if you could help me out a little, as I'm a complete newbie to the 770 and also to linux!

I came across this little beast when looking for a cheap second access to the internet at home, I use the internet for my work, and also for keeping in contact with my relatives and friends, as well as keeping up to date with the news etc etc... Now, my girlfriend has just moved in and I thought it might be a nice idea to get something with wich one of us can surf the net or chat with family whilst the other is on the computer.

First I was looking at the Nintendo DS, but reviews have stated that surfing is incredibly slow and audio and video has not been enabled at all, so despite being cheap as chips, that was out of the question...

Then I stumbled across the 770 advert on the Nokia site which promised all kinds of amazing things including VOIP, IM and streaming audio and video from the net!

I guess the questions I have for you are these:

1. Is the 770 painfully slow at loading webpages?

2. Can you stream video content from the internet? Reading posts, it seems not, but the claim is there on their advert!

3. Using a youtube video downloaderand mplayer is it reasonably easy to watch video clips from youtube/dailymotion/myspace etc etc

4. Is it very easy to install mplayer?

5. Now that the n800 has been released is the 700 still worth approx £150 from ebay? I'm not too bothered about being cutting edge, as long as I can surf most webpages, listen to some music (does music genome work on it?) watch the occasional video/download the odd mix from the net and chat with my friends and family. It seems the 770 is good for this, and the price is still way lower than anything else out there.


thanks for taking the time to look!

dan7ape