Thread: Very interested in the 770... a few questions though...
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2007-01-09 , 08:56
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Originally Posted by sevenape View Post
1. Is the 770 painfully slow at loading webpages?
No, the bottleneck is usually the network. The 770 is quite good
for surfing webpages as long as they don't contain too much flash
or huge graphics. Flash content can be displayed but is often slow,
especially when heavily animated.

Originally Posted by sevenape View Post
2. Can you stream video content from the internet? Reading posts, it seems not, but the claim is there on their advert!
It depends on the content. The built-in video player is _very_ picky
about what it will play. MPlayer, however, can play a lot more.
I usually download video content to my computer and convert it
into a 770-compatible format before streaming it to the 770.
That works well.

Originally Posted by sevenape View Post
3. Using a youtube video downloaderand mplayer is it reasonably easy to watch video clips from youtube/dailymotion/myspace etc etc
MPlayer can play .flv videos (YouTube, etc.), but it's not trivial to
tell the browser to open these files with mplayer. I don't recall
the exact procedure but there's a thread about this somewhere
in this forum. But even then, mplayer takes a lot of time (buffering?)
before it starts to play a .flv from e.g. YouTube. It works and playback
is quite smooth for most videos but you'll have to be patient.

Originally Posted by sevenape View Post
4. Is it very easy to install mplayer?
As easy as installing any software on the 770. It's really just a few clicks,
after telling the application manager on which server it can find the package. If you know Debian or Ubuntu, it's almost the same procedure
as with synaptic there.

Originally Posted by sevenape View Post
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.
Dunno. According to some statements and blogs from Nokia employees
they still want to support the 770 and release a new OS 2006 firmware sometime (but not OS 2007, which would run slow on the 770 anyway). But since it's the management and not the techs who decide at
Nokia, only time will tell.