Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
Posted by Chris Leckness on 07/2/06 in Tablet PC
Nokia’s 770 Internet Tablet is a new kind of product, It’s a mobile Internet device, providing access to your email, the Web, Internet radio, RSS and more, over your own broadband wireless Wi-Fi network at home, or a public one in a café. It adds in a few extras like music playing, image and video viewing, and some gaming.
The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet is a compromise between size and usability. It’s always the way with small devices — portable media centres, handhelds and smartphones have the same issue, for example. The hardware needs to be small enough that users will be bothered to carry it around, but large enough to be usable in the situation for which it is intended.
In this case, the screen is all-important, and Nokia has certainly gone to town in terms of its quality. It delivers 800 pixels of width and 480 of height, in a physical area 90mm wide and 55mm tall. It’s crisp and more than bright enough.
The screen is touch-sensitive, and a stylus sits in a slot on the back of the casing. If you have stubby fingers you might need to use this regularly, as the icons and menus can often be quite small. On the left side of the screen are a couple of buttons and a navigation pad. These get you around the device without needing to tap at the screen, for example calling up menus and taking you to the Home screen.
Nokia provides no less than two protection systems for the 770. There’s a solid slide-on cover that can be used to protect the entire front face of the device, and a drawstring bag. You also get a USB cable to connect the device to a PC, and a printed manual.
There’s a bevy of software built in to the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, though not quite everything that might be useful is present. You get a Web browser, email software, Internet radio, an RSS-feed reader, software for video and images, a calculator, a clock with an alarm, a notes tool, a draw-to-screen tool and a couple of games. There is also a PDF document reader built in, and you should be able to add additional software.
Internet radio is one of the more fun things on offer. One station is already built in, but to add others you need to go through a rather tedious process of copying and pasting their URLs from the Web browser to the radio software.
When you connect the 770 to a PC using the provided USB cable, its flash storage card shows up as another drive, ready to have files copied to it. You can’t access the internal 64MB of memory using this method, however.
Overall, the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet is a great little device. It really does work. Nokia needs to do a few things with the next version to make it better, though. These include increasing the amount of internal memory — and allowing access to it through a PC — improving the quality of the sound output and making the device larger.
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