I'm probable going to get the Nokia 770 later this week, but I have a few questions. How does it work as an Audio player? Can you surf and listen to music at the same time? Can I create playlists?

Yes, you can play music while surfing the internet and create playlists. The only problem you may run into is the available flash memory. The 770 doesn't come with a whole lot of internal memory. I bought a extra 1 gig card and I still can't get a lot of music on it (since I have a bunch of apps installed, a video or two, and some extra random files).

Yes, you can surf and listen to music. It's a very nice mp3 player. Especially for listening to internet radio. You can create playlists as well.

Go for it!

Thanks. Is there memory cards with over 1 gig of memory?

thats mainly what i use my 770 for is an MP3 player. I have a lot of music on my gig M MMC card. It has pretty good battery life too in offline mode, and with the cover on.

RS-MMC only go up to 1GB for now as far as I know. I use mine as a MP3 player when I am on the bus but it is a short bus trip (20-30 minutes) plus 5 minutes walking time each end so I don't need thousands of songs on it. One thing I find slightly annoying is the volume control buttons won't work with the cover on. You have to slip the cover down slightly to change volume then close it back up. Also the headphone socket would be better where the power socket is. With a headphone cable with a 90 degree plug on it the plug can get in the way of the sliding cover.

Still these are only minor annoyances and as an MP3 player it works great for me. I also use it for watching video on the bus too. TV shows or old movies downloaded off Bittorrent usually.

I haven't used streaming internet radio much since my internet connection has data caps but when I have used it it has worked extremely well.

Simon

There is one big annoying "feature" in mp3 player. If you play streamed song from your server, the player can't handle multiple playlists. So tapping new song while another is playing causes new song to interrupt playback. That is frustrating for example in parties when you would like to make long playlist with mp3 player program.

Volume-button-not-working and headphone-plug-in-wrong-end are also quite annoying design flaws.

For me the lack of an equaliser is a dealbreaker to using my 770 as an mp3 player - the default settings are really bass-light and there's a lot of shrill top-end (for my earphones anyway)... probably optimised for that little built-in speaker.

So for now I use TCPMP on my phone (and carry that little MMC Mobile adapter around so I can swap files with the 770)...

IMHO we need a better meda player on the 770 for day to day use..

I know at least I had some confusion early on with what types of memory the 770 would take, Cliff Notes version is MMC Mobile and RS-MMC work great. You can get MMC Mobile 1 Gig sticks from Meritline.com for $31 now, I have one and I also bought 2x 512 sticks when they went on sale for $11 (try to get a couple gigs at one time as $11 for a stick plus $6.95 s&h peeves at least me off). RS-MMC seems to run quite a bit higher and doesnt seem to be any better than Dual Voltage MMC Mobile

Ive got some audio books and MP3s on my sticks but mainly I use them for video.

I wanted to agree with dsmudger.

The 770 has the potential to be a great portable media device. However, anyone purchasing one as a music player should be aware of the following:

1. Sound quality and volume - As mentioned, there is no EQ. Buy a good set of earplugs or headphones. This will help with the quality and volume. Check the specification for frequency response and dbm/Volt (or equivalent).
You want the low number of the freq response to be low, and the dbm/Volt to be as high as you can get.

2. Editing play lists in far from elegant. AFAIK, songs must be added one at a time, and there is no ranking, genre selection, etc. There is random play within the active playlist.

3. There is no fade function.

4. Beautiful, high-res display, but no visualization, no album art, or even a cool-looking UI.

5. Previously mentioned limitation of the RS-MMC card.

6. Sound will skip when the machine gets busy - for example when rendering a web page, so surfing and listening is going to be a bit irratating at times.

I really like my 770, and I do use it _alot_ as a media player, but I feel that it is only fair to warn those dropping $350 to $400 to use the 770 primarily as a MP3 player of the above.

The 770 is a much better as an MP3 Player than an Ipod is as a web-surfer