Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Nokia 770 screen NOT reflective!

Nokia 770 After a few months of testing the Nokia 770 indoors (such a long winter!), I just recently found a really ugly design flaw in the current version of the Nokia 770 tablet: the screen is NOT reflective. That means, as soon as you try to use it outside, especially in bright sunlight, the screen is nearly impossible to see, no matter how much you turn on the backlight. I had the same problem on my old Palm Treo600, which was much worse to see outside than its predecessor, the Palm Tungsten W. The Palm Treo650 finally got a reflective screen again, so as soon as there is bright light (sun...), you just turn off the backlight to save energy and the visibility of the screen is gorgeous. Hopefully the sucessor to the Nokia 770 will have a reflective screen, too. Otherwise it won´t be the mass market device, that Nokia has imagined. I guess the Nokia 770 developers (Finnish and Linux geeks!) are not used to spend time outside their cubicles in the bright sun ;-)

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