Nokia 770 Internet Tablet hands-on
PDA phone? Smartphone? PDA and phone?
While we at PDA-1 see the future in compact PDA phones. there are still some of us who would prefer separate gadgets, for separate times in our lives. In which case, a standalone PDA and phone would make better sense, both to the occassion and the girth of our pockets …
Still, some of us “lifestyle afficiandos” would not think too much of having a full-blown PDA in our pockets - we might need it only for entertainment and communicate purposes, and not for data especially since sensitive personal data on PDAs are becoming a primary target for identity thieves.
So, what do you use in such circumstances? Nokia’s new 770 Internet Tablet comes to mind. Not a PDA, not a phone. Not a PDA phone, either. What is does - and does well - is getting us connected to the Internet for our multimedia and communicative fixes, such as well, the Web itself, e-mail, streaming music/video, RSS newsfeeds, and Internet Messaging (IM).
Nancy Gohring of Mobile Pipeline has a hand-on preview of a pre-production unit at the just-ended Nokia Connection 2005 Helsinki conference. All’s good - even talk of OS upgrades before the 770 is for sale - save for some gripes on the speed of the Internet Tablet:
“My primary impression in the hour I spent with it was that it’s slow. I’m not just talking about how quickly it downloads data but, rather, about how clicking on anything resulted in several seconds or more of lag time before the device responded. While Nokia public relations spokespeople suggested that the reaction time will improve before the device hits the shelves, it’s unclear by how much.”
Although that could be a deal-killer for most of us, but we give the benefit of doubt to Nokia’s engineers. If they say that thing’s gonna get faster - we believe it will. After all, it is a pre-production unit, right.