Comments on: PepperPad fails a PC Magazine review

By: Viipottaja

Viipottaja — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:20:46 +0000

Tor, I agree. Especially given that Nokia too has announced a few mini SD phones lately. Oh well, maybe next time. I guess one can attach a univeral card reader/writer in the USB port of the N770, but of course that’s not very convenient.

By: foobie

foobie — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:56:31 +0000

admin, you don’t really make much sense.

1) psp was designed as *closed* media consuming device from the start. Not only a console. *Sony* made the umd movies for it, there is page in the manual for them. They did not become *unexpectedly popular*, it was part of plan from the beginning. So this does not confirm your theory of people doing unexpexted things, but rather disspells it.

2) PSP does not support WMA DRM either, yet it is only a problem for N770?

“You cannot expect consumers to use the device according to the product manual”

I see this completly opposite. Whether n770 is a success or not, *depends* on how many users want to do unexpected things. If people are happy with locked consuming devices like PSP and Creative’s mp3 player, why would they want an n770? If you *want* to do unexpected things, you want something open like n770. If people want WMA DRM, they can write their own player software to support it (nevermind that you will get sued. oh well..).

Yes, the rs-mmc thing sucks, but so does psp’s memory stick and umd, yet i don’t see you complaining about them. But you can find 1GB rs-mmc cards for 70eur, which is enough for several episodes of simpsons.

By: Nickster

Nickster — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:28:32 +0000

I think of the 770 as a handheld Linux PC…

By: philcmneal

philcmneal — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:14:08 +0000

well if they realease an adapter i don’t see why tv shows can’t be enjoy on the nokias sexy’s screen

by the way, hows the side viewing of the nokia?

By: Tor

Tor — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:49:10 +0000

You’re probably right that they thought about Nokia phones – they still got it wrong though. The 770 would be ideal for watching pictures, for example, in other words it should support cheap memory cards that (normal, not phone) cameras are using. As there is a bit of divergence in that market they should have gone with SD. After all, it’s possible to get a converter for RS-MMC that fits an SD slot. (Besides, I have lots of SD cards laying around, because all my other devices supports SD, even if some of them supports something else in addition as well)

Nokia is trying what Sony did. Sony tried to force Clio users to use Memory Stick. Didn’t work, they always got a beating for it in the reviews, people complained about not having SD support and in the end they folded. RS-MMC isn’t as proprietary as Memory Stick, that’s true, but the comparision still holds.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:41:31 +0000

That’s a good point about the cards. I didn’t think about Nokia phones. But couldn’t you just use Bluetooth to transfer them?

By: admin

admin — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:36:02 +0000

foobio, Sony PSP is not a movie player, it’s a gaming console. Nevertheless, the UMD movies took off and became unexpectedly popular. You cannot expect consumers to use the device according to the product manual, they will come up with their own innovative uses, and when the device doesn’t match their expectations, they will blame the device.

By: Viipottaja

Viipottaja — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:44:01 +0000

One reason sited somewhere for using reduced size cards was that many Nokia phones use them, so they wanted easy swapping of a card with e.g. pics that you took of that girl at the club to your N770 when you go to bed that night.. hmm.. that doesn’t sound right, but you get the idea. ;-)

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:01:22 +0000

I don’t think people are hung up on it. I think people just wonder why they went with the reduced MMC format when there are other formats available that offer much better densities. And people these days want a lot of storage. It doesn’t matter that they might never use it or really need it it is just the way things are. I mean you don’t NEED a car that has 350BHP for example but people will still buy them.

By: foobie

foobie — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:42:01 +0000

This site is really dropping in quality.

770 is not a personal media player, it’s internet browser that fits your pocket.

Creative Zen also really,really, sucks as Web browser, but that does not make it a useless device. So why would n770 sucking in pmp business make it a failure?

However, I expect pc magazine and similar computer magazines not give big stars to 770. Their world is simply to pc/microsoft centric to understand anything outside it. Just compare the amount of pages they give pda’s to the amount of pages the give to mobile phones. never mind the fact that cellphones outsell pda’s 1000:1 ;)