Thread: E90 versus N800 - Nokia as own competitors ???
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2007-02-08 , 14:55
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Originally Posted by Chas McG View Post
Why? Well, after a year of Maemo development, the built-in email program on the 800 is useless with IMAP.
Why's that? I'm currently using the native email program on the 770 with POP3, and it works fine. Is it different on the 800 or with IMAP?

The version of Opera is so quirky that the forums generally recommend Minimo -- but Minimo is so unfinished that a single button press can blow up the whole app.
It's true that MiniMo hangs a lot. But I'm fully satisfied with the native (Opera-based) browser on my 770 (I suppose it's very similar to that on 880). I think that it was really enhanced with ITOS ver.49-2


Installing software is much easier with repositories, but the forums are still full of users finding "x component not found" error messages.
That's because of not having a complete list of repositories. I think this link could momentarily help those users:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ead.php?t=4456

And then there's the whole "it's not a PDA, so we're not going to include decent contact or calendar software" thread, or the challenges of the handwriting recognition, or...
I find GPE-calendar useful as well as the contact native software.

About the handwriting recognition... I prefer to use directly my fingers. When you rab the screen, a big enough virtual keyboard full screen opens up.

Don't get me wrong -- I love the screen on the 800, and the speed, and I love playing around with it, but for every day use, the E70 works, while, more often than not, the 800 doesn't.
At this point I completely agree with you. I rely more on the always-working-perfect software of my little N80 than on that of the 770. But it's what the linux thing is about.

There also are some advantages with the 770. Besides the wider screen, there's an application: OCTAVE (a free version of MatLab), that would be almost impossible to find in any other device. There are other advantages, like NMAP, or KISMET, and other NET tools, that you'll hardly find in Symbian or non-Linux devices. With 770 you're even able to recompile the kernel (what other "PDA" is able to do that?). I mean that with 770 you have COMPLETE CONTROL over the machine (that's also the linux thing again). That deserves a little bit of weird behaviour in some apps, I think. The premium is that you really have a mini-LAPTOP. With all that implies: good or bad.

With an N80 you have what you have (and it's really very GOOD). With an N770 the limit is your imagination...

I think Walter Mossberg's review from last year still holds true -- the 800 is a marvelous piece of hardware that is held back by unfinished software.
Surely I think it's partly true. But it's the linux thing again all about.

Salut.
Sebas.