It rocks!
I thought this device was worth a mention, I've had one for a month or so now and it is really "tidy" and the sort of thing that would appeal to people here (and not just because it runs Linux on an ARM processor). The design is very neat and it feels solid, just a couple of niggles really - one annoying thing is that you have to slide off the cover a tiny bit to expose the stylus holder, this is probably deliberate but on balance I would rather have the stylus fall out every now and then rather than the bother of have to pop the cover up to put the stylus away temporarily.
The amount of software that is available after such a short time is amazing, there is even a
VNC port which performs really well. The Maemo
Application Catalog is a good guide to what is available.
For keyboards people have got bluetooth keyboards running and it works with a standard USB keyboard if you put 5V on the USB cable (the 770 doesn't supply *any* power to USB). Somebody posted on the
ITT forum that connecting a USB mass storage device basically just worked too, and it appeared as a standard device.
And I have got GPSDrive using a basic moving map working with a cheap Rikaline bluetooth GPS receiver. My guess is that should the 770 become very popular then Tom Tom might release a software pack - apparently some of their devices are pretty similar in hardware/software config.
Gareth
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