Comments on: Size of iPhone vs Nokia 770

By: dillera

dillera — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:57:55 +0000

Mmmm, I would call the Nokia 770/800 MIDs rather than phone device. Not much of a phone on them. Skype does not count. The iPhone is a MID that just also has a phone…. I use mobile safari way more than the phone on my iPhone.

By: luke

luke — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:39:55 +0000

oh, another interesting point is that the 770 was the first phone device (I think?) to have the full screen keyboard interface, although nokia were particularly lazy assed in making it work well, unfortunately. They deserve to suffer from Apple’s appearance inthis market as they had the vision to follow these risks through.

By: luke

luke — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:38:21 +0000

the 770 is not really a fair comparison either – the later model 800 is more reasonable. I use Minimo on my 770 anyway

but an interesting read as I think apple looked a lot at this device in their design phase – as well as the e61.

By: dillera

dillera — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:17:24 +0000

D’oh. I’ll have to enable that and compare the links again. Thanks for the tip.

By: PM

PM — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:37:01 +0000

You select “optimized view” in menu “view”.

By: dillera

dillera — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:18:06 +0000

How do you enable that on the 770?

By: Marius Gedminas

Marius Gedminas — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:27:17 +0000

Opera on the 770 has an optimized mode where it renders the page differently to make it fit the screen width without scrolling.

It’s actually better to have horizontal scrolling on sites that have fixed-width useless sidebars, as long as the main column of text fits on screen. I think for this reason Opera on the 770 doesn’t use optimize mode by default.