Give us a separate battery pack that can be worn by the user and connects to the 770, powering it through a full day of work.

I doubt that anyone reading the 770 blogs will agree that these two things are necessary but people who would otherwise be able to use a 770 in their work will not be able to if it cannot maintain power all day long and if it cannot keep an X session as the 770 moves from one wireless access point to the next, exactly the way in which a cell phone keeps its connection as it moves from one cell tower to the next.

If you do these things then the working people of the world will find the 770 useful but if you will have missed the biggest opportunity that the 770 represents. I, for one, could not build any vertical market software for the working people if it won't run all day. A working person would not think twice about wearing a separate, day-long battery pack if it allowed them to use the 770 throughout an entire work shift.

A 5th-gen iPod is one-third the size of the 770 yet it has 30 gigs of hard drive space! Why should people have to anguish that their 2 Gig-cards aren't working with 2006 OS when they could have something similar to an iPod 30-Gig HD on board? If 2 Gigs is good, then 30 Gigs is better. And we don't need an external card at all, since we can just email docs, notes, URL's to ourselves anyway. Free up that space, or else use it wiser.

A little piece of software I'd love to see in it is a universal remote control software. It would fit even better in my living room with this. Plus it would be less "geeky" and more open to everyone. I'm not sure the bluetooth port enables IR though...

Butterfly Remote contains a Bluetooth-to-infrared link unit and a remote control software running on Symbian Series60 devices, such as Nokia 6600 and NGage QD game phone....The Bluetooth link is built into a small box, which can be mounted on wall or ceiling...Butterfly Remote turns inputs from the mobile phone over the Bluetooth link to infrared commands.

Mail browser: I wish I could stop the popup windows from showing up like in Mozilla/Firefox. This is a small annoyance on a desktop, but a very time consuming task on the Nokia 770. More than that, some popup windows have this animated stuff (probably flash) that make the browser crash.

Another important feature I wish we had would be tabbed browsing. Why load another instance of Opera on the 770's already cramped resources when we could just load another window? Only use the icons and interface once, just have the screens change?

All the PIM applications fail to utilize a proper alarm. What I miss most is not being able to set up an alarm for my appointments (GPE crashes when you set this up and they claim it does not work anyway because of kernel/hardware limitations). I cannot not even set up an alarm on the basic 770 clock!! And it won't work with the cover on.

Why can't we use the nav button to scroll through pages like a scroll wheel? Most people reading stuff want to hold it with one hand (left) and read, not have to use the right hand to scroll. It could be done with 1 hand, if there were an option to scroll with the nav. Does anyone really want to use the nav the way it is now- bumbling from link to link???

Why can't I access the files that are stored on the 770's internal memory (not on the mmc) with usb mass storage? Once I plug in my device, I lose access to those files. Kind of dumb. That then requires enormous reshuffling efforts to transfer here and there and back again when it could be made to work RIGHT.

Hardware I wish the 770 had included:

A) IR port to use as a universal remote

B) Expandible RAM

C) Larger screen (keep the case the same size, expand to the top and right by 1/4th inch each (even if Nokia has to move their name somewhere else, haaa!)

D) Ports on the side, not the bottom. {Edit: user does not say why... }

E) Ability to remove/insert the stylus without removing the slid-on back cover. {Edit: Unless this was intentional to prevent stylus from falling out somehow.}

F) Ability to use the left function of the nav button (joystick) with the slide cover turned around and slid onto the backside of 770. The cover slid on this way prevents us from reaching that leftmost key.

G) Scroll wheel added to right side instead of using stylus for up/down in Opera.

H) Hard/dedicated volume control (not software/screen driven).
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These further additions by CEklund:

I) A stand that actually works, even with the cover on the back side. OR... possibly ... some holes in the bottom to snap in some other kind of stand so we can orient the 770's screen to eye level however we desire. Nokia, you could make money selling stand options to cater to all whims. Currently, the 770 will not snap into anything relevant for our use. www.semens.com (makers of the i-blue GPS) sell a Free Arkon Vent Mount that ratchets down over it okay, but it's not elegant or user friendly.

J) A joystick with more height rounding up from the center. The edges of each button should be higher up off the casing for better feedback when depressed.

K) Move the power button 1" away from the zooms keys. How many times have I nearly shut off the device just trying to zoom in and out?

L) Make the USB Master/Slave capable through the Control Panel after a brief tutorial educating us dummies as to why we can't plug in certain USB devices etc... since Nokia assumes we are idiots about this. Fine, train us then, but give us the option! Wouldn't you like to be able to upload your Mp3's into your iPod without another computer handy? I would!

M) Add a hole in the bottom of the front-cover case so that when it's turned around and slid on the backside, you then have somewhere to later attach a Bluetooth webcam device. You can be sure they are coming; let's get prepared for that eventuality. Make a spot to attach a webcam so that it snaps down safely into the case but rests atop the device, centered, facing the user, as it should be.

N) If possible, create a left-handed (a flipped) version (maybe not of this 1st version, but for the next version up) for the left handed people out there, if the production costs are worth the number of sales achievable. It seems unlikely that it is, but perhaps Nokia could ask for all of the interested left-handers to vote in a poll ... so they can see how many ARE interested in a left-handed version of the 770 #2 (780?) before they go through the effort.

I currently use a Newton 2100 and a Sony Minidisc recorder to go to meetings. As an engineer, I need to take good notes so the active handwriting recognition of the Newton combined with the ability to search all my text on the Newton is key.

As an active meeting goer, I need a voice record of the meeting to update my notes and get them right. As a parent of 2 college students (I bought them Sony recorders as well), I have come to appreciate the value of extended voice recording, as well as being able to search through them later.

To make the 770 a truly indispensable students' machine - whether for undergraduate or graduate students (or for an engineers notebook and calendar) - you need to somehow add 4 things:

A) improve the handwriting recognition (x 3) etc etc etc... <Edit: Maemopad+ works great as a note taker in lieu of handwriting recognition not being up to snuff at this time! --Ceklund>
B) Add voice recording and a 2 gig mmc so it can record all day for going to long conferences. Create option of adding notes (embedded into the audio timeline after the fact) to our recordings so we can search through our recordings and have it queue to that moment automatically.
C) Add an active indexing of text entries so that the contents can be quickly globally searched like they are on the Newton.
D) Develop active desktop sync programs for linux, MacOS and Windows which would synchronize files, perhaps through Bluetooth not a clunky cable system.

Some of these things mentioned here ARE what has made a lot of folks keep using their Newtons 10 years after it has been discontinued by Apple. You might want to think about that, Nokia.

My 770 lies idle due to the lack of a good PDF reader. I was really hoping this would get better with the 2006 OS. It seems a bit faster but otherwise still has weaknesses, including one fundamental flaw - the zoom in/out buttons should skip pages instead. Page turning is the common use case scenario; not zooming.

I can't get over how beautiful and brilliant the screen is. Of course, super-high-resolution on a tablet device means you need good aim with the stylus.

I really suspect that the sluggishness of PDF viewing is because floating point is emulated in software.

Clearly Nokia is using hardware, specifically the OMAP-1710, for which they already have a volume purchasing agreement, until they can figure out how successful the product will be. And I suspect strongly that the OMAP-1710 lacks floating point. The next model should have a faster processor, with floating point, and more RAM. The OMAP-3430 (550 MHz) has it (and how much is TI going to charge for that monster?) I think the OMAP-2430 doesn't.

Notice that I'm not saying the machine is a slug. It takes slightly longer for the stripped-down Opera web browser on the ITB to start and display an easy page, than for the full Opera to do the same on my laptop (Pentium-M 1.6 GHz). That means that the processor is [probably] properly scaled for the software it's running and for the storage device available. But there's this one issue that really holds back an important class of applications, that needs to be improved in the next model.

Recent Compaq (HP) iPaqs have a fingerprint reader. If reliable this would be a whole lot more convenient than the numeric lock code. Some business uses of a PDA necessarily involve sensitive information, and it's important to keep it out of enemy hands, enemies who steal your PDA.

BIOS PASS NUMBER: If a casual thief re-flashes the filesystem image and BIOS, does this reset the BIOS pass number, resulting in a working ITB? --James F. Carter <jimc@math.ucla.edu>

You can't hack what isn't there. In this context, if the ITB isn't running any inet daemons, those daemons can't be hacked. But it's inevitable that it's going to be used for peer-to-peer connections, or other uses that nobody has thought of yet. I would feel a whole lot more comfortable with a complete firewall. I went to put my standard firewall on the ITB and was told (for the nat table), "Table does not exist." (Do you need to insmod?) Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded? The iptables utility has a complete set of setting modules; I'd really like to see a complete set of runtime kernel modules to go with them. --James F. Carter <jimc@math.ucla.edu>

Nokia should grease the wheels for a port of the Skype VOIP software to Maemo. It may not be happening, however. Skype is one of the leading reasons people give for buying a Nokia 770, until they find out there's no software for it. The recommendation for Skype is not to be interpreted as discouraging porting other VOIP software. But Skype's advantage is that for a very modest fee, they will bridge your call to PSTN land lines or mobile phones. While I encourage do-it-yourself VOIP users to make such a bridge for themselves, I believe this capability is rare.

Backing Up Everything
It should be possible to find and back up all relevant data. When I horked my root filesystem I was able to restore most settings. The ones which I've noticed are missing so far are these:

A) Web bookmarks, in /usr/share/osso-
B)Bookmarks/bookmarks/MyBookmarks.xml, mode 666, hiss, boo.
C) The glyphs themselves seemed to have been restored, but not the Handwriting Shortcut CONTENT.
D) X.509 certificates, in /usr/share/certs/certman.cst

Everything involved with user data or user preferences in applications, like bookmarks and glyphs, should be in the user's home directory; everything changeable that's involved with machine configuration, such as the display brightness and the WLAN connection list, should be in a well-defined directory, probably a subdirectory of /etc, such as /etc/osso.

Take some hints from the guys that did TCPMP. They managed to turn a Treo into a video playing device. It is just amazing. The 770 hardware should be capable of so much more.

Well, my expectations & hopes for the video player are partially based on a potential bit of information on the 770 video controller. It seems that it may use the Epson SD13472 controller and thus it may possibly allow for setting the full screen mode to 400×240 for video, and double buffering the image. Since any video playback on the 770 is currently much less than 400×240, there is some potential there for significant improvement - IMHO ---ubergEEk

I want to have the strength of the WIFI connection shown as 1 to 4 bars in the icon

These things are best kept on a wishlist indended to be read by decision-makers at Nokia.