Thread: How they should have designed it
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Ray is offline Ray
2007-10-21 , 13:13
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#24
Originally Posted by uNtouched View Post
[Major Rant]
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The 770 was bashed up and down for all the things it couldn't do, when people didn't give the device much credit for how well it did what it was advertised to do.
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[/Major Rant]
I like the hardware layout of the 770 very much,
with the protecive metal slider.

However didn't give up hope so I have my third Nokia 770 here,
and none of them is/was stable when using
the _most important_ application, the web browser!

And those trials to port a Mozilla-based browser to the 770 were all unsuccessful so far,
and cost me (the user) even more time to revive the unit.

This thingy simply doesn't do very well what it was advertized for IMO.

As an interesting note, other great applications,
like Maemo Mapper just work as expected.


Originally Posted by uNtouched View Post
[Major Rant]
Everyone hears "Linux based" and it's automatically supped to be able to wake you up, plan out your day, let you build the most advanced applications in the world, hold you when you're down, give you a BJ, and the list goes on...
[/Major Rant]
Not neccesarily.
But as written above, the main application (web browser) should simply be stable (which it isn't),
at least from the second firmware update on.

MicroB on the 770 showed that the problem is not only the rendering engine,
but the surrounding framework.
MicroB on the 770 is very likely to crash instantly,
and leave your unit in a corrupt state, so you'll have to reflash.

The 810 looks very nice, much better than the 800,
and even if the keyboard is not meant for intensive use,
it's better than no keyboard at all:-)

So I think I'll give the 810 a try, despite the experiences with MicroB on the 770.
Hope it won't disappoint me again...


Ray