What I don't understand is that the Nokia 770 runs Linux, and has as one of its chief audiences the Linux hacker community. I've personally been running the same laptop on Linux for 5 years, and the same desktop machines and servers on Linux for more than that. I just recently bought a Nokia 770 and do think it somewhat disgraceful that Nokia could just say, "Sorry, we won't support it due to hardware/licensing difficulties." It just suggests to me that the Nokia engineering team took a hacker, rather than software engineering, approach to developing OS 2007. I would have made backwards compatibility with the 770 a primary goal, if I were on that team.

Clearly, they just like to use entire communities as "test beds" for their new platforms.

What's sadder to me is that I essentially bought the 770 to replace my Palm Vx, a device I bought 10 (yes, _10_) years ago and have used enjoyably since then. With 8MB of Flash memory, I've managed to ease my commutes with offline articles (AvantGo), ebooks (TiBR) and what's more, Palm OS supported Vindigo, which lets you get full city guides on your device. In 8MB.

Those functions I just mentioned were "faster" on the Palm, though it is true I didn't have luxuries like anti-aliased fonts. I'm the kind of person who likes to hold on to his devices until I really come up with a new use case for a new device. Unfortunately, apparently the Nokia technical lead on this project thinks a "1.5 year old device is old." Well, screw you. I don't like to throw away my money. For me, a 1.5 year old is device is "about the right age to buy it", since clearly you guys had lots of friggin bugs in the last year and a half. If I had bought it a year and a half ago, I would be yet more disappointed.

*sigh*