I got my 770 yesterday lunchtime and have been trying out the different applications pretty solidly since then! I thought I'd arrange my impressions into two broadly defined lists, one of good points and one of bad.

Good

• The "Internet experience" is phenomenal. I have never used any device as mobile as this which gives me anywhere near like the same quality of, inparticular, Web browsing. This device is worth it for this alone. It's a bit like the sea change when I first got broadband, now I can access the Internet when I'm munching my cornflakes because it's so much easier than using my laptop. Add to that, the news feeds application which works very nicely and the integration to Internet radio which is pretty seamless
• The screen is superb. Never seen as high a resolution as this from such a small device. This is the main enabler for the Web experience. It also makes viewing video a treat. Which leads me to...
• I was a little worried, given the underpowered h/w specs, of the media capabilities of this device. But generally I've found both audio and video performance excellent. Both are best done through the integrated RealPlayer. The bundled Ice Age trailer is a good demo of the video capabilities and is pretty impressive.
• The extendability of the platform... I've already installed Gaim... this aspect seems pretty seamless

Bad
Most "niggles" these!

• The wireless connections management is a little more hard work than I'd like. Why can't it just auto connect to any preferred network? You can choose one network to auto connect to but then it doesn't seem like you can choose other networks! (Maybe someone can point me to how to do this)
• This isn't a niggle: the email client is incomplete for IMAP users. Seemingly no folder downloading and no separation of accounts. And I can't even get onto my work email which uses SSL on the inbound server.
• You can tell the h/w is a little underpowered. It's a little sluggish if you have a few apps open with large docs inside them. I've had a few out of memory errors with pdfs open, the web browser open and so on
• There does seem to be a few bugs in various applications. For a while my file manager wouldn't open, the GUI would be displayed and the folders would begin to list, but as soon as it showed the "Documents" folder it'd crash. I solved it by, as the folder list was loading, moving which folder I'd selected up using the cursor pad. It now starts ok. I kinda expect this kinda thing, as long as I can work around them I don't mind.
• I'm a little disappointed with the media formats supported: mainly because OGG isn't there but also, even RealPlayer doesn't support *some* RAM files for instance on the BBC News website all the high quality streams (low quality are ok but this would be really cool). Hopefully this will be fleshed out.

The bad are really, as I said, mostly niggly things, and the experience of web browsing on its own far outweighs the drawbacks. All in all this is a very impressive first effort for Nokia and the general approach they are taking to their device strategy is one I'm beginning to buy into. I used to be a fan of converged devices, but now having browsed on my 770 I realise 770 + UMTS phone is the way to go. I'll be putting in my order for the N80 next year

I would like to add that I personally get a "well thought up" feeling, I havn't had with other PDA devices so far.

I browsed to BBC News (with default link in browser) and was able to check broadcast in videoplayer. It doesn't show it in browser, but when I opened (clicking it) in video player it showed it just nice.

I agree you with stability, after using it couple of hours, I got several memory low warnings, very sluggish performance and finally a unwanted reboot. After reboot, everything worked ok, but again one hour later similar memory warning/sluggishness/reboot event happened. I close every app after using it, so I suppose it might be a memory leak issue. Sad to say, but after using Symbian, Palm and PocketPC this thing feels more crash prone and sluggish. I hope future firmwares will resolve these issues.

Hmmm... I'd noticed radio and video doesn't work as a plugin, so I have to use "stand alone" realplayer. The radio then works, but video doesn't. I'll give it another try. What streams were you viewing?

Must admit I'd read somewhere else on the forum that BBC video was ok but I cannot get it working either - it opened the player but then just says invalid stream (or words to that effect)

Has anyone got a specific example clip on the site that works so we can try it out ?

Buzz

Sorry, can't test it right now, but when I tried it yesterday, link was BBC mainpage->Today Watch/Listen to BBC news-> First Headline video on the right

It works for me on all of the BBC streams, but you have to launch into the standalone player... Embedded streams seem to crash the browser.

I can confirm the BBC real video streams work for me also when launched with the video player.

Starting with the bad:

1. Had a couple of reboots for no discernible reason.
2.The USB connection is a bit quirky. I find that if you have File Explorer open, disconnecting the USB connection (even if you eject on the PC/Mac) makes the MMC inaccessible.
3. Imap support is not up to scratch. It works, but loss of folders and no delete of messages from another client is not good enough. IMHO.
4. Some apps are a little sluggish to start, hopefully this will improve with time and optimised releases.
5. Can we lose the rotating arrow on tap and hold. It's eye-candy that slows the context menu to no purpose.
6. Where's the alarm? I don't believe missing an alarm option makes a lot of sense.
7. There's a lot missing from the documentation. Apparently I can import contacts from Outlook but have no idea what format is acceptible to the 770 address book.
8. Re third party software, anyone know how to page down in plucker as opposed to a line at a time. I can't believe the Palm users have not had this added by now. Or is it a porting issue perhaps?
9.Opening the body of an e-mail takes far too long. Unacceptably so. This needs to be fixed as a priority.

And now the Good:

1. Excellent build quality. The 770 itself and the case is very solidly made. I did think that not being able to take out the stylus with the case on was a bad idea, but then realised that without that, a worn stylus will slip out and all too easily get lost.
2. The screen truly is excellent and the software's been built to match it. Unlike my iPaq 4700 which looks disgusting in VGA mode.
3. The software as a rule looks pretty good. For a first production release of new software this is a pretty impressive effort
4. Availability of new third party software seems to be going mad. Each time I check the available ported software there seems to be another piece added and another port complete. Hopefully Nokia will continue to support this growth.
5. Acting as a USB hard drive is a good move. Needing no software to be installed on the host PC makes it easy to use in an office environment. It would be interesting to see how we get round this for synching. Networking only perhaps.
6. There's no 6.
7. Or 7.

Overall a huge thumbs up from me, with the caveat that I want to see some of the software issues (mail particularly) resolved soon as an indication of commitment to the platform.

Well I hadn't tried the low quality ones and they work. That's a bit crap. Are the high quality ones working for anyone else?

When I try a high quality one it just says File Format not supported or similar.