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Sony Mylo Challenges Nokia 770
An anonymous reader writes "Tomshardware says Sony's Tiny Mylo Internet Communicator is out. "The first page of MobilityGuru's July 2006 review of Nokia's 770 WiFi powered Internet based communicator was titled "In A Class Of Its Own." One Month later the title is no longer correct. With the recent announcement of its Mylo (for My life online) personal communicator Sony joined the battle for the hearts, minds and pocketbooks of people whose major means of communication is instant messaging and Web based phone calling."" I've got a 770 on my desk right now (review forthcoming) so I'm curious to see other takes on the genre.
The Sony device is a direct knock off of the various other devices on the market already like the T-mobile branded MDA. It looks *just* like it (many other providers offer this phone but call it different things). Wooo for "innovation".
When will these companies learn to view the modern web with any sort of comfort you need, at the very least 640x480.
The Nokia 770 has no keyboard while this Sony device does. When will these companies learn to *interact* with the modern web with any sort of comfort you need, at the very least, a useable keyboard.
I thought that the idea of the 770 was a great one. Without a keyboard it's pointless.
While my T-mobile Sidekick has its shortcomings, it does have a full Qwerty keyboard that far more usable than a Treo or Q.
These companies need to cross the two and make the perfect device. A small form factor (pocket sized), keyboard, and larger/clear screen as well as wifi/GPRS/EGPRS and autorollover to the fastest available network.
Why? Because the Nokia 770 has pretty much become junk. Yes it's a nice piece of hardware, yes it has a nice screen. But the software on it sucks, there is no support, no new releases (the last new release broke more than it fixed) in short, Nokia could care less about supporting it. The 770 showed a lot of promise, Nokia could have (but didn't) released a keyboard for it (the on screen one sucks, lots of issues).
I bought the 770 5 months ago to for a special use. Now that the use is over it'll never come out of the desk again. When I got it I thought I'd be able to do all sorts of things with it as Nokia added features and fixed bugs.
Sadly, no such luck. Nokia isn't fixing bugs, and isn't adding features. The lack of support by Nokia has also translated to vendors who once considered selling things for it, and now realize it's a dead platform and won't touch it.
Maybe the Sony device will cause the people at Nokia to wake up and go back to work on the 770, I hope so but I sincerely doubt it. Nokia dropped the ball on this, which is a shame.
(BTW, I do know about Maemo and do have xterm, ssh, and a few other apps installed. Excessive Lag however makes the 770 a poor internet device)