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. Thoughts? -- boerner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ boerner's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3601 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31398 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
