Imagine if you could shrink your whole computer into something that fits in your hand. The Nokia 770 comes close. The first thing that must be said is that it's not a phone. Not at all. It's a palmtop PC, with a colour touchscreen, 64MB RAM expandable via a reduced-size MMC slot, bluetooth, WiFi, built-in 'quiet speaker' as well as a mini-socket for microphone and speakers, USB port and a few buttons including a four-way rocker with centre-select.

It came to market later than planned, but the pocket-sized Nokia 770 feels like a worthwhile experiment in portable computing. The 8.1-ounce unit is a bit larger and heavier than a high-end PDA. Unlike a PDA, this device wasn't designed to keep your contacts and calendar up to date, but to be used as a secondary Wi-Fi-enabled Web surfer.

Rob Pegoraro of The Washington Post has written a negative review of the Nokia 770 internet tablet. I asked a friend who owns (and likes) the Nokia 770 to comment: [tease] (emphasis added) The Washington Post article is junk.

Update: RogerS over at InternetTabletTalk has a response to Mike Cane’s Nokia 770 complaints. Interesting reading. I think if I had known a little more about the 770, I might have purchased it instead of the Palm TX back in January. The 770 is nowhere near as exciting as the UMPC. I bet the handheld linux community is actually more excited than most of us about UMPC.

The Nokia 770 "does little, and not very well," writes Washington Post Personal Technology Columnist Rob Pegoraro, in a scathing review. Pegoraro lambastes the 770 on all fronts, while grudgingly admitting that some of the time, it works okay for surfing the Web.

I've enjoyed exploring the new Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, a sleek hand-held, multi-function device that supports Web browsing, sending and receiving e-mail, playing audio, displaying video, and more. It connects to the Internet either over a home or public WiFi network or through a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone. Connecting this device to my secure WiFi network was a snap.

Eric Bangeman from ArsTechnica has written an all-round review of Nokia's latest portable communication gadget. In case you don't know, the 770 is a Linux based PDA-like device and the main functions are internet surfing and e-mail reading that we mentioned here back in May. In short, this is the pros and cons list, but the whole article is an interesting read and gives a much more in-depth impression.

The Nokia 770 is one of the coolest devices I've seen in a very long time and I can't wait to get my hands on one of these for a test drive. Mike Cane spent some quality time with the little Internet appliance and has published an exclusive in-depth review of the 770 on jkOnTheRun.

This is Nokia's upcoming handheld computer, what it calls the 770 Internet Tablet. I doubt that this device will sell all that well outside of a narrow market segment of people like me, but it's important nonetheless.

okia sent us in their very successful Linux-based internet tablet, the Nokia 770, for a review. The tablet came pre-installed with the latest 0.51 firmware version and we give it a whirl mentioning the positive points but also some negatives we found on the device.