since I'm the 'Nokia skin guy', I figured I'd pipe in on this thread... One of the things that hasn't been mentioned on this thread is that, even if you aren't completely satisfied with how the 770 works today, there is great promise for how it will work tomorrow. Already we've seen that with Nokia's Dec 30 software upgrade, which vastly (at least in my case) improved memory management and stability. This is a really cutting edge product and I'm looking forward to seeing it improve with time. VOIP will be coming out in 2006, which at the very least should be technologically interesting.
On the Slimserver side of things, there are still lots of improvements to be done to the skin. I think the one that is going to most improve the user experience is putting some AJAX functionality into the 'now playing' and 'playlist' windows. What that will do is allow elements on those pages (e.g., song being played, cover art, etc.) to be updated dynamically without a full page refresh. The ExBrowse3 skin already does this, and I've had some communication with the author of that skin in porting some functionality over to Nokia770 (btw, where'd ya go, Jacob?). I've also put some effort this week into putting more of the layout load into CSS instead of tables. I think this will eventually make all of the pages render more consistently. FWIW, I keep my to-do list for this skin available publicly-- http://mcstayinskool.tadalist.com/lists/public/170297 As far as my own experience with the 770 as a slimserver remote, I have mostly high praise. There is no doubt I can select music quicker with the slimserver's remote, but for playlist management and manipulation the 770 is far superior. I find the response time to be acceptable. Connecting to my wireless after being in standby is typically a 10-15 second operation. Not fantastic, but I can live with it. Once it's up, response time is great. For example, if I hit pause on a track, it will pause more or less instantaneously. Streaming slimserver direct to the 770 is also super sweet. I wrote a lot about this in the wiki page I drafted up: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SlimserverAndNokia770 cheers, #!/ben -- bklaas ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20910 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
