Nokia 770 and Hello World

2005-10-25 at 21:15 · Filed under Meta, Toys

Last week I got the Nokia 770 that I had won at GUADEC in Stuttgart. Yesterday I set up my first blog. That means I can increase both the number of meta posts and of N770 posts at one fell swoop.

My first impression: the screen is gorgeous. 800x480px at 225dpi means really sharp text. I’ve previously read ebooks in Plucker on a Palm V (160x160px) and a Tungsten E (320x320px), and thought the Tungsten was a great improvement. But the N770. Wow!

First thing I installed was scummvm and Monkey Island I (German/DOS version) ;-)

Also started a list of things you shouldn’t do with it:

• running sudo /etc/init.d/af-base-apps stop. Finding a command that sudo executes without a password might be cool, but having to reboot the device afterwards isn’t
• building xrandr and trying it with the N770 X server is not a good idea either. The onscreen keyboard doesn’t follow the rotation and you have to type the command to rotate it back blindly. I did get out of this without rebooting.

OTOH I did pass the desk stand and MMC slot intelligence tests. But I had to use pliers the second time I wanted to remove the MMC card.

Oh, and Hello World!

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