[nylug-talk] TIme to get a Nokia N810

Alex Pilosov alex at pilosoft.com
Tue Dec 11 23:01:49 EST 2007


On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Chris Knadle wrote:

> On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Ruben Safir wrote:
> > > I've got a Nokia 770, and it's never given me a single issue. I even
> > > managed to hack root mode onto it... still ticking!
> >
> > This is not really debatable.  These things do brick all too easily.  
> > I know 3 people personally who have had them brick including Ron
> > Guerin, and its a FAMOUS problem.
> 
>    I've read that Nokia seems to be avoiding supporting Ogg Vorbis,
> which sounds like it's for nontechnical reasons.
I kind of don't understand half of brouhaha. N810 supports ogg vorbis. Not 
out of the box - but you go to the application manager, click on "ogg 
vorbis support", and you have it. It is an entirely open platform - they 
couldn't block if if they wanted to.

-alex



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