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My tivo just told me that it’s upgrade added podcast support. Interesting. So, I’m checking it out. Asside from only having a very few podcasts (What? no TWiT?), and having to enter a URL with a remote control (ick), it’s pretty nice. It doesn’t seem to show up anywhere useful (like on the now playing screen) when new versions come out, but you can go and look for them, at least. It plays immediately (which means it must be streaming or something, because I added TWiT, which it didn’t know about before), and in that respect it’s very nice. I’ll play with it for a while, and then comment again.

Now, if it only did video…

Update: Okay, it’s useless. You can’t pause. When you stop, it starts over at the beginning. Way to half-ass it, tivo.

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“What are you doing?” the woman asked the five year old girl.
“Putting.”
“Putting what?”
“Putting the future into hindsight.”

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So, Nokia claims ~3 hours of battery life. I don’t know how much runtime I’ve actually gotten these past few days, but as a test, I didn’t charge it last night, and it’s still going now. I’m happy. Makes me wonder if this is the first time a company has underestated the battery life on a device.

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First post from the 770 itself.

Typing from a touch screen is a bit annoying, but it has a pretty good prediction set-up, so it’s usable.

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Over the past two days, I’ve gotten the maemo development environment (Maemo is the development SDK for the Nokia 770) up and running on my Gentoo AMD64 laptop. Asside from having completely broken assumptions (what kind of software must be installed in /foo?), it works fine, and I was able to build and run the test program in the emulation environment. Next, I need to build and run the test program for the actual device, and then I can start developing for my newest toy!

One thing I noticed immediately when my 770 arrived: The 800×480 screen opened by maemo on my laptop is almost twice as big (in physical size) as the actual screen on the 770. This means that the 770 has half the pixel size of my laptop, which has a half way decent screen! Wow.

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Well, today my new toy arrived:

I’m quite happy with it for the 10 minutes or so that I’ve had to play with it. It has one of the most amazing screens that I’ve ever seen on anything, and it’s amazingly small and light. Woot!

Over the next few days, I’m going to be installing sofware and working on integrating it into my life. I’ll be making more comments here as I have time and content, under the Nokia 770 category.

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