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2007-01-12
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Karel, before you rip Opera a new one for its "aweful browser," can you name a single other company that has tried to consistently provide a mobile browsing experience with support for modern web standards across a huge range of devices? The only other browsers that are even in the same ballpark are Access Netfront and Minimo. Minimo has more or less been abandoned by Doug Turner at this point and Netfront comes in a rather distant third, given my experience with version 3.3
Opera isn't perfect, but the latest version on the N800 is a big improvement over that on the N770. I sincerely hope that Nokia continues development of the N770 and licenses the latest Opera for it as well. A lot of people bought 770's very recently and to have a company heavily advertise a product shortly before dropping meaningful support for it would be the highest form of disrespect for your customer's hard earned. I know that I tend to gravitate to and stick with companies that have good long term support records and avoid those that take the money and run. In the tech business, you certainly don't want to burn the power user base, either. Even though they are a small minority, they are a very vocal and influential one.
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2007-01-13
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So you're saying that they had plans all along to release OS 2007 for the 770, but didn't want to tell us? Maybe they were waiting for everyone to assume that the 770 was going out of favor and thus buy an n800 before they started to calm the 770-loving masses... Yeah, I can see the financial motivations (and thus the corporate plausibility) of that approach. That still rubs me the wrong way.
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2007-01-13
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Besides, we've but received an official communiqué that there will be no better Opera for the 770, so your pleading to Nokia's common sense comes a bit late.
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2007-01-13
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2007-01-13
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I had no idea that the 770 would be left behind so quickly and completely, as in, uh, less than a year. It is similar to the Newton - a great device in its day, but it became obsolete in a few years. Problem is, the 770 was obsolete in less than a year!
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2007-01-13
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If I could sell it for any decent money on eBay, I would.
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2007-01-13
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2007-01-13
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d. Give us Java. If Java can run on my old HP Jornada 548 PocketPC, why can’t it run on the 770? This is where your users want to be. Java is the new Visual Basic. Talk to Sun; they will help you; they want everybody to use Java, (I guess?). If I had Java, I would have built my own PDA software. I am not going to learn a new language – who has time? Hobbyist programming is the domain of college students, who have lots of time. I code J2EE, C++ and VB (and still a lot of COBOL, unfortunately), 50 hours a week. If I had a tool for any of those languages, except COBOL, I would use it. Java is already a Linux staple.
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2007-01-13
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Micheal - the 770 is called the Internet Tablet. It runs the Internet Tablet Operating System. And you know what? It's not a PDA!
According to Nokia - who stated this when they launched the 770 - it is not a PDA because it's primary design goal is to connect the user to the web. Any other function should be considered a bonus, but if you don't like them then develop something better - that's the point of the Maemo platform!
I actually thought installing apps on the 770 remarkably straight forward - certainly better than having to connect my device to a PC so that I can install the app on the PC in order for it to then install itself from the PC on to the mobile device (think: WinCE madness).
But in all seriousness I'd side with something along the lines of QA. I like texrat which should immediately rule out anything in sales.