Thanks to everyone for the comments so far. Very interesting. I think I may hold off installing it for now since I am too lazy to reinstall everything when the production version comes out and also because of some apps I want to run (mainly FBReader).

Does anyone know how the USB host mode stuff works now. Did they make any changes to that? When I try it I will have to resurrect my little USB power box I gave up on and see if my folding USB keyboard will now behave.

Also does it have any New Zealand cities in the clock now? I have always been annoyed I can't even set my timezone. I know I can hack it to do so but as I mentioned I am lazy

I'm sorry, I did not know that it is irrelevent to this forum to post an on-topic description the exact steps I took, the exact errors that occured and exactly what I finally did to restore the image. I'll be sure not to bother this group with such details in the future.

Now now children! Lets all be friends!!

Well, lazy I can understand, but if you need FBReader, it's been ported

I think the functionality outweighs the minor problems (and current lack of applications)

Brad.

http://europe.nokia.com/nokia/0,,75030,00.html
looks like nokia finally started marketing the 770

I'm surprised I haven't seen this mentioned yet, but maybe I missed it...has anyone else noticed the new charging screen when the unit is off? Now it is a reverse white-on-black screen, instead of the bright white it was before. The charging icon looks about the same, with a little plug going into the battery next to "Charging".

The neatest change is that now the screen and unit turn OFF when charging is complete, unlike before when the white screen would stay on with "Charged" next to the full icon...too bad Nokia didn't just put a dual-color LED to indicate charging status, instead of having to turn the screen on...

Just my little observation...

OTOH, a quick test indicates that video player is now able to play video streams Previously this didn't work at all: https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=366

Regards,
Reiner

I thought for sure I saw someone (either here or on the maemo-dev list) posted something about the beta running kernel 2.6.15, but I noticed mine is 2.6.16. Did I make up the 2.6.15 thing or did I really see that somewhere?

Whats the deal with the software, is it just the application installer that is different? Can I still install command line tools from xterm, other tools will continue to work without recompiling them right?

No, but the applications are being recompiled very quickly. I haven't tried it yet, but it looks like xterm is ready
http://maemo.org/maemowiki/Applicati...09dd6c1e108f30