Nokia 770 Quick Review
Source: gigaom.com
Peter Rojas is a rockstar - or at least that’s the impression I got from SF Engadget meet-up which was well, as well attended as the MobileFocus event the night before. I got a chance to get my dirty paws on a whole punch of devices including OQO and some of the new Windows Mobile devices. (OQO is nice, but at $1899, well you know they are likely to follow the path of Transmeta, the company whose chips they are using!) And this in the fine company of folks who sweat phones day in day out - Phonescoop, TreoCentral and Treonauts. To make things more fun, I think I was drunk dialed by Russell Beattie twice during the evening, and he had me screaming like a mad man in room full of gizmo lovers.
Still, the device that caught my attention the most was the shiny new Nokia 770 - which is a cross between a PDA and a Tablet PC. (Previously, I had written this about 770.) The early engineering version of the device had a really great browser, which used the thumping fast WiFi to render pages in true fidelity. (GigaOm.com looked fine, so who cares about rest of the world. 
) The switching between the applications - email, audio player and browser was sluggish, but the Nokia representatives say that it should be fixed by the time device ships later this fall. The four way keypad navigator works nicely and helps you toggle tasks nicely. One of my concerns was that it would be too big to be used casually, but that is not the case. The ultra-bright screen makes up for the size, while it is light enough to be thrown into your messenger bag without inducing any permanent damage to your spinal cord. Now I cannot wait to get one for a full blown review.
