Comments on: Nokia 770 http://atomized.org/2005/12/nokia-770/ Fragmenting reality. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:42:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Ian Eure http://atomized.org/2005/12/nokia-770/comment-page-1/#comment-2523 Ian Eure Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:12:36 +0000 http://atomized.org/?p=121#comment-2523 That's not quite what I would call "support" for OPML, but it's good to know. That’s not quite what I would call “support” for OPML, but it’s good to know.

]]> By: Kesey http://atomized.org/2005/12/nokia-770/comment-page-1/#comment-2521 Kesey Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:05:14 +0000 http://atomized.org/?p=121#comment-2521 You can import OPML: http://www.internettablettalk.com/wiki/index.php/Internet:RSS_Newsreader_OPML_import You can import OPML:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/wiki/index.php/Internet:RSS_Newsreader_OPML_import

]]> By: Uris http://atomized.org/2005/12/nokia-770/comment-page-1/#comment-1084 Uris Mon, 01 May 2006 15:57:11 +0000 http://atomized.org/?p=121#comment-1084 Anyone working with optimized xvid player for ARM 1710? It could be possible to get bit more performance for video playing Anyone working with optimized xvid player for ARM 1710?
It could be possible to get bit more performance for video playing

]]> By: Chris Robison http://atomized.org/2005/12/nokia-770/comment-page-1/#comment-828 Chris Robison Wed, 22 Mar 2006 06:48:58 +0000 http://atomized.org/?p=121#comment-828 A couple notes ... first, a friend and I tried copying the Ice Age trailer that comes with the 770 onto a desktop computer (a 4Ghz Athlon) and the video was choppy *there* as well, in exactly the same places, mostly toward the beginning of the clip. It appears to be a problem with the file, not with the 770. (What were they thinking? Did they *want* to make their product look bad?) Second, the handwriting recognition does in fact *suck*. I'm not saying it's not usable, it is .. I can enter text with it just fine. But if you compare it to even the first-generation Palm Grafiti, it's just not nearly as usable. I have fairly decent handwriting and I can do text entry on a Palm more or less as fast as I can write on paper. With the 770 on the other hand, there are several characters that have been assigned strokes that are too similar, and it's "actually impossible" to prevent the device from making mistakes. (trust me, it's not just your handwriting). You can "train" it with custom strokes -- this is a *fantastic* idea. As it turns out the effort is wasted though because you can only train it with *one* custom stroke per character, most of the characters completely ignore your new stroke, and though you can delete your usually useless custom stroke you can't delete any of the poorly chosen originals. The one place where custom strokes seem to do well is on the "shortcuts" -- where you can assign a custom stroke to work like a macro for whatever text you want. As far as the cover goes, it contains a magnet which trips a reed switch in the upper left corner. I've tested it with a separate magnet, and managed to find where the switch is. I've thought about trying to carefully pull apart the layers of the cover and dig the magnet out of there. It's often nice that it causes the device to suspend, but after a while it'll suspend anyway if it's not in use. I'd rather be able to listen to DI.fm with the thing in my pocket. (come to think of it, I'd like to be able to listen to DI.fm at all -- for some unknown reason the 770's audio player refuses to play most, but not all, of their 96kbps mp3 streams). A couple notes … first, a friend and I tried copying the Ice Age trailer that comes with the 770 onto a desktop computer (a 4Ghz Athlon) and the video was choppy *there* as well, in exactly the same places, mostly toward the beginning of the clip. It appears to be a problem with the file, not with the 770. (What were they thinking? Did they *want* to make their product look bad?)

Second, the handwriting recognition does in fact *suck*. I’m not saying it’s not usable, it is .. I can enter text with it just fine. But if you compare it to even the first-generation Palm Grafiti, it’s just not nearly as usable. I have fairly decent handwriting and I can do text entry on a Palm more or less as fast as I can write on paper. With the 770 on the other hand, there are several characters that have been assigned strokes that are too similar, and it’s “actually impossible” to prevent the device from making mistakes. (trust me, it’s not just your handwriting).

You can “train” it with custom strokes — this is a *fantastic* idea. As it turns out the effort is wasted though because you can only train it with *one* custom stroke per character, most of the characters completely ignore your new stroke, and though you can delete your usually useless custom stroke you can’t delete any of the poorly chosen originals. The one place where custom strokes seem to do well is on the “shortcuts” — where you can assign a custom stroke to work like a macro for whatever text you want.

As far as the cover goes, it contains a magnet which trips a reed switch in the upper left corner. I’ve tested it with a separate magnet, and managed to find where the switch is. I’ve thought about trying to carefully pull apart the layers of the cover and dig the magnet out of there. It’s often nice that it causes the device to suspend, but after a while it’ll suspend anyway if it’s not in use. I’d rather be able to listen to DI.fm with the thing in my pocket. (come to think of it, I’d like to be able to listen to DI.fm at all — for some unknown reason the 770’s audio player refuses to play most, but not all, of their 96kbps mp3 streams).

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