I was really thinking of smart phones but anyway...Firefox wrote:How does it compare to Opera on the N800?Kemper_Boyd wrote:Safari works well, it really is just like using a proper browser but with a piddly screen. It absolutely slaughters the browsers of any hardware of a similar size.
The sites I loaded looked essentially identical to how they'd look in Safari
on a Mac. Other than being rendered to fit and the zoom level. So at first
glance I'd say at least as good as the N800, but it's the tapping, zooming
and finger scrolling that really set it apart. It doesn't have the resolution
of the screen on the N800, but the DPI is still very high and the free
zooming works so well I'm not sure there's much in it. A smaller screen
isn't a big problem when you can so easily focus in on the part you are
trying to read.
The iPod is a lot smaller than the N800, it's about 40% of the volume,
and 60% of the weight. The N800 is jacket pocket sized, and feels it. I
think you could stick the iPod in a trouser pocket. I've carried a Palm T3
in my trouser pockets before, and it seems that the iPod is half the depth
of the T3 (at its broadest point). I'm in danger of talking myself into buying one.
Which is best? I can see that an N800 has potential. An open source
system and the big screen sounds great in theory, but I can't see it
becoming a mainstream product. It's too geeky IMHO.
The iPod Touch really is a 'idiot-proof' pocket internet, and makes the
not-smart phones browsers out there look quite silly. If Nokia, Sony
Ericsson, Microsoft, Symbian and others aren't crapping themselves
I'd be surprised. To my eyes the internet aspects of the iPhone and
iPod Touch are qualitatively better than competing products, and this is
only the beginning.
Broadly though this ties in with many of the points Intel was hammering
home at IDF a couple of weeks back. You want full mainstream browsers
on a pocket device, not the crap we've generally seen so far. That means
fast processors, bigger screens, new user interfaces, lots of storage and
memory; who's laughing at the size of the iPhones firmware now?
I think the N770 and N800 show that Nokia sort of get it, but damn it they
really need to work on the UI. I don't think Windows Mobile, or sadly Palm
OS and Symbian, is up to the job.
