I've just started using Oboe on the 770 for the first time.

For those that don't know, Oboe is a service just launched by MP3Tunes. It can be found at http://www.mp3tunes.com/ . It's a giant online music store where you can upload your own tracks then access them again through a browser interface. My dream is for my highly connected 770 to be a media player without the need for internal storage.

So far I've just registered a free account to allow me to test, and just sideloaded a sample track. I used my laptop to perform all this. Then I swapped to my 770...

The first thing I noticed was that the browser AJAX interface was a little sluggish. It also took up a lot of memory, so much so that I had to close other windows (I'm running the latest official OS release from Nokia.com). I hope this doesn't get worse with more tracks... although I would've thought it's more to do with the use of AJAX and the polling etc.

When I access the site with my laptop I can play tracks in the web browser. I couldn't do that with the 770. It uses a dropdown against "playable items" (albums, tracks etc) where you hover over and then click "play [item]". I *could* get the dropdown, but pressing on "play" had no effect. Possibly a browser problem, maybe a pen interaction problem... I don't know.

The alternative is that you can also pick anything to download a playlist for. Thankfully, this integrated into the 770 audio player well. It started buffering and within a few seconds I was listening to my music. On our company LAN (standard 802.11g) the quality was excellent.

All in all, a promising start and something I will be keeping an eye on. The major downside at the moment is the sluggish interface.