Nice review and nice toy
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| richo123 Jul 21, 2006 9:14 AM EDT |
I got one of these recently and it is a very nice linux geek toy. the development community is pretty active and for a linux user this is very easy to use. It will be very sweet indeed when nokia upgrades the hardware to something a bit zippier. Sounds like Nokia have a clue over this and future hardware releases may be a must have toy. Highly recommended! Oh did I say it uses Debian? |
| jdixon Jul 21, 2006 12:34 PM EDT |
> I got one of these recently and it is a very nice linux geek toy. My wife loves hers. 1000 E-books in the palm of your hand (with the 1GB replacement card). FBReader is nice. |
| NoDough Jul 24, 2006 5:42 AM EDT |
How about making the device into an Internet Jukebox and 802.11 VOIP telephone! http://www.michaelrobertson.com/archive.php?minute_id=215 |
| grouch Jul 24, 2006 7:00 AM EDT |
Some time back, I saw a review (or preview?) of this on TheReg that was pretty negative. It's good to see the opinions of real users here. |
| jdixon Jul 24, 2006 7:37 AM EDT |
Grouch: > It's good to see the opinions of real users here. If someone is expecting it to replace a laptop, they'll be disappointed. It's not as full featured as a laptop, the lack of a keyboard is serious limitation, and the lack of Microsoft compatability is a killer. If they're expecting a super telephone they'll be disappointed. Prior to the most recent software upgrade, it had no phone capabilities, and even now it can only do voip (which we haven't tried yet). If they want a portable media player, web browser, non-Microsoft document reader, with most of the features of a PDA, they'll probably be happy. My wife uses it as a portable web browser/e-book reader. She's very happy with it in those roles. The only real limitation as a media player is the current 1 GB memory limit. Otherwise, it seems to work great. I think there's a USB host mode modification for it which should allow you to use an external USB device, which would greatly expand it's media player capabilities. |
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