It Does Little and Not Very Well

wiredog writes "A Washington Post (frryyy) review of the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, a handheld Linux device. The reviewer complains about the lack of keyboard, poor WiFi implementation, outdated software, non-standard memory card, and almost as many crashes as an unpatched Win98 install."

Comments

Give me a fucking keyboard

[Nicolas MONNET]

If it had a keyboard, I'd buy one right away. Without keyboard, what's it good for?

The rest of the specs are weird, too; as the WaPo points out, why use RS-MMC? Full-sized MMC fit in my 6230i phone, why could'nt they fit in a device 4 times bigger? It's like chewbacca: it does -NOT- make sense!

Windows user reviews Linux

[babbling]

This review sounds a bit like a Windows user reviewing Linux. This Nokia 770 device runs a modified version of Debian, and is an ARM architecture. While Nokia couldn't bundle something like MPlayer with it, there is nothing stopping anyone from getting a copy of MPlayer and using it to play all of the different formats/codecs that the reviewer has had a whinge about it not being able to play.

For geeks, this seems to be a good device! For Rob Pegoraro, it sucks, because it won't run Windows Media Player. Poor baby.

Re:"Review" misses the point.

[TripMaster Monkey]

Need to set a few things straight, it appears...

1) Since when was their a patch for Win98 that stopped it from crashing? (apart from this patch)

It's bad enough that the submitter is guilty of pointless M$-bashing...you jumping on the bandwagon isn't really all that helpful....what madt you think it would be?

2) And - the review did not mention the O/S crashing - just applications crashing. Linux is not the problem here.

From TFA:

In two weeks of testing, it locked up and spontaneously rebooted more often than any computer I've used in that time.

You receive an F for reading comprehension, Whiney (assuming you actually took the trouble to read the entire article).

Oh - and rereading the review - it appears the reviewer's "biggest complaint" was the lack of keyboard. That's what seperates a tablet from a tiny laptop retard

Disregarding for just a moment what a 'tiny laptop retard' might me, two things:

1. That was hardly the reviewer's 'biggest complaint'. The lack of a viable input option was just one of a whole laundry list you would have seen if you had done more than skim the article (again, F for reading comprehension).
   
   
2. The lack of a viable input option is a valid complaint, regardless of whether or not you want to classify this device as a 'laptop' or a 'tablet'. It doesn't matter what you call it...if you can't use it effectively, I call it a paperweight.