I think I've read enough not to get the 770 - which I was also contemplating. I was planning to restyle the 770 skin with all new graphics and make it much more finger friendly. Such a device has a lot of promise and a lot more can be done to create a fantastic consumer-level UI that anyone would be able to use at a party.
But the pitfalls seem to be in the device itself. I won't be able to live with something that crashes when using its own built-in web browser. That's just not something that a company like Nokia should ever release in any software update. I suspect the performance of the current skin might be able to be improved slightly depending on what people actually want to do with it. One way is to streamline it a bit. Doing it carefully of course, not with an axe just by chopping out huge features. But if the device is slow to begin with, there's not much that's going to be able to change that. I'm not sure if Nokia will stand behind the 770. The rumored images of its sequal are completely incorrect and not at all of a product in the same device class. If I were a betting man I'd put my money on Logitech eventually coming out with some type of graphical controller. With or without ties to their Harmony product line. Who knows, maybe if Apple releases a full-screen WiFi iPod we can hack that as a controller. ;) In any case a PDA is not an really an option due to the limited resolution, small screen and generally poor button selection/placement. And I'm sorry if I offend anyone, but Telcanto just looks like complete crap, so much so that I wouldn't be able to run it myself, let alone show it to anyone else at my home. I think letting people use one of the Macs here for browsing is going to be the best option for a little while. I'm looking forward to using something that both looks and works even better than the Sonos controller, but I'm willing to wait for a suitable hardware platform to do it on. -- MelonMonkey Bruno *'Twisted Melon - Fine Mac OS Software' (http://twistedmelon.com) | 'mira - Personal Control for your Apple Remote' (http://twistedmelon.com)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MelonMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29699 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
