boerner wrote: > bklaas;168232 Wrote: >> The official Nokia flash thingy didn't really show anything that the 770 >> can't do. My guess is that it would require a hands-on to really get a >> feel for whether big improvements had been made performance-wise. >> >> Screen res is the same, and Opera 8 is still the browser (the OS >> package in its entirety is likely to be the same), so the Nokia770 skin >> will work the same on this device. >> >> So, digest of improvements: >> 2 memory card slots, and they are SD instead of RS-MMC. Some users >> report success with 4GB SD cards. That's fantastic--it means you could >> beef it up to 8GB of storage, making it worthy of both PMP and/or >> decent mp3 storage. I use my 770 on trips to store and watch videos (it >> works *great* for this, although you have to reformat the video to a res >> the 770 can handle). The 770 supports a 1GB RS-MMC card, which gives me >> about 5 hours of content. I'd love to boost that by 8x. >> >> Integrated webcam. Kind of cool, but I can't imagine I'd have much use >> of this. To video conference with all my friends with N800s? Unlikely. >> I don't want them to see me pickin' goobers anyway. >> >> Increased CPU, from 220 to 320Mhz. This may be nice, but I think the >> real performance upgrades on this platform needed are in WiFi and >> battery life. >> >> Increased on-board flash memory from 128 to 256. That was definitely >> needed. >> >> Built-in stereo speakers, replacing built-in mono of 770. This one also >> matters naught to me--if you want to hear decent audio on this platform >> you need headphones plugged in. >> >> Built-in "kickstand". This probably costs Nokia next to nothing in >> cost, but it's probably the feature upgrade I'm most pleased to see. >> Sometimes it's the little things that make the biggest difference. >> >> Nice to see Nokia continuing to develop on this platform. I don't >> really get a clear vision of how well the internet tablet thing is >> going for them-- there are still a lot of people porting open source >> stuff on to maemo.org, but I've quit looking at the main forum for 770 >> users, internettablettalk, because it's largely garbage and doesn't >> have the kind of interesting discussions you'd hope (compared to this >> forum, which is wildly successful, if a little contentious lately). >> >> I'm certainly not going to be rushing out to purchase one of these, but >> if one landed in my lap I'd be pretty psyched. >> >> cheers, >> #!/ben > > Well, I can't do much, but I would be willing to kickstart an N800 fund > for Ben :-) > > I tried this earlier with another developer to get Slimserver > integrated with the FreeNAS project, but the work never got done and he > refunded my money. > > In appreciation for the work on the 770 skin that Ben has done, I will > be the first to drop $30 USD into a Paypal account, working towards the > $399 USD the N800 costs.
Hey, You could give me money towards an N800 too :) R. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
