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Nokia 770 Internet Tablet



On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 11:40:41AM -0400, Tom Metro wrote:
> Buy.com is promoting the obsolete Nokia 770 Internet Tablet today:
> http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=204081472&adid=17653&dcaid=17653
> 
> for $140 (free shipping). (One of these was passed around at the 
> November BLU meeting on "Porting the Linux kernel", 
> http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2006-nov .)
> 
> I was expecting it to be a refurbished unit, but as far as I can tell 
> these are new.
> 
> At less than half the price of the latest model, it might be worth 
> comparing specs to see if the newer model is really worth the premium.

The screen and backlight are the same. Some folks may want to
buy the old one just as an e-book reader and occasional web
browser (802.11 b/g).

The RAM was increased on the 800. That's not upgradable, and is
probably a larger speed boost than the small MHz upgrade.

-dsr-

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