Comments on: PC Magazine on Nokia 770

By: John Marcellus

John Marcellus — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:40:53 +0000

I have the Nokia 770 and Im having a little problem pairing it up with My Cingular (ATT) BlackJack. Can anyone help me please?? How do i pair it up?

By: Bud Olivares

Bud Olivares — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:45:32 +0000

ALL THESE FANCY SMANCY REVIEW SITES (MOBILE BURN AND OTHERS) AND NO ONE HAS THE ABILITY TO CALL “THEIR FRIENDS” OR SOMEONE AT NOKIA TO FIND OUT THE REAL HOLDUP IN SHIPPING THESE 770′S, SOFTWARE CRAP OR HARDWARE BUILDING OR WHAT!!

By: Rob2

Rob2 — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 01:45:55 +0000

It has 64MB DDR RAM, 128 MB On-Board Flash, and a RS-MMC slot. In the box is a 64 MB RS-MMC card to put in the slot.

Regarding the 128 MB On-Board Flash, approximiately half is used to store the core OS and applications. The other half is available for the user to save data files such as images you save from your web browser. It isn’t designed for allowing you to install applications on the removable RS-MMC card. The removable RS-MMC card is for storing backups and also for storing media, such as images, video, and audio files. I learned this from reading the User Guide PDF that you can download at this time.

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:18:44 +0000

Sascha, I agree about those preview quotes making the article seem rather negative.

Nokia770.com, maybe you can add the following quote from the article to the other two?

“We suspect that developers and geeks will love the 770 in its current state. We heartily recommend it to that crowd, but the average consumer should hold off for now. Once Nokia smoothes out the bugs and the geeks start churning out more software, this will be a fun gadget to have at home.”
(Last paragraph in Sascha Segan’s article at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1893683,00.asp )

It’s encouraging to hear that the battery even lasted 5.5 hours in your test… If I remember right Nokia advertises the battery to last an average of 3 hours.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:39:54 +0000

I believe it is 128MB in the unit of which 64MB is reserved for the OS and 64MB for the user. You can plug in extra via the RS-MMC slot of course but I don’t know that you can install/run apps on there or not or if it is just for storage.

By: TeeSee

TeeSee — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:13:34 +0000

It’s unclear to me whether the 770 has 64 MB of RAM or 128 — different reviews say different things. Is it possible that the memory was doubled near the end of the product development cycle? Furthermore, it’s not clear, from reading this review, that many of the bugs that PC Magazine found were due to a lack of memory or simply due to the open-source development process that the 770 has embraced.

Looking forward to getting my hands on one :-)

By: Brian Smith

Brian Smith — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:16:52 +0000

This memory issue worries me; every reviewer has commented that it is a problem. Will Nokia quickly change the specs of this machine to have 256MB of RAM instead of 128MB? I mean, isn’t that a very cheap decision these days? Does it cause more heat, or drain the battery faster, or something bad, to have 256MB? I’d pay an extra $20 or $30 to have a machine with more memory, and it sounds like it’d clear up a major sticking point with the reviewers.

By: Allie

Allie — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:35:01 +0000

Why would you open so many window on this device; this is not a laptop. Do one task and do it right

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:24:24 +0000

Question, since this is a debian based OS, is there a shell available? Or, can I ssh to another host?
I want to use this to monitor other linux boxes.
Thanks.

By: Sascha Segan

Sascha Segan — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:16:49 +0000

Just wanted to remark that my review is generally more positive than those quotes would suggest. I found the 770 to be buggy, but an exciting and seductive platform, and I’m reasonably confident Nokia and developers will work out the bugs in the future.