Andrew Diller of The Syncing Apple contacted us last week to rave about the beta software update on the Nokia 770 internet tablet. I’ve read a number of positive posts about it and it appears Nokia are really putting some good effort into the Maemo development and making headway with the optimisations.

New features include google talk, better memory management and a full-screen thumboard.

I like what Nokia are doing with the 770. They have developed a low-end device and made it possible to do many of the functions that you’d normally use a larger UMPC for. It’s also clear that Nokia are commited to RISC-based CPU’s while companies like Pepperpad are moving to x86 architectures with their Pepperpad 3. We recently published a short report on the x86/RISC battle in our main portal.

As we’ve said before, we’re looking forward to the next-gen Nokia and hoping for a flip-down keyboard, a slightly more powerful processor (to enable full-screen mpeg-4 video) and a memory upgrade.

For some good pics and comments, see Andrews blog.

Regards
Steve / Chippy

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