[ddhsoftware]

I'm just speculating, and horrible at Geography but isn't Ericson or Nokia based near Oslo Norway? If so, perhaps this is their attack at a smart phone.

Just adding fuel to the speculation fires!

[ddhsoftware]

I'm just speculating, and horrible at Geography but isn't Ericson or Nokia based near Oslo Norway? If so, perhaps this is their attack at a smart phone.

Just adding fuel to the speculation fires!

[Chris Dunphy]

Just to correct a misconception - the graffiti area on the NR70 can be minimized in applications that support it to enable full screen mode. Action Names, WordSmith, QuickOffice, Bump Attack Pinball, Acid Image, and dozens more support using the full 320x480 display.

[Scott R]

A couple of comments:

1) Not sure if I'm completely convinced that this is a hiding Graffiti area. It could be that it's notched out that way so as to accommodate a clip on thumbboard. My guess is that it is what everyone else here is saying (a sliding area), but I just wanted to throw out another possibility.

2) I agree with the comments about what appears to be a lack of a side scroll wheel. That's too bad.

3) Definitely is 320x320 high-res. I'm glad that they improved upon Sony's version of this, as the font and button outlines have more weight to them.

I got a chance to play with an NR70 the other day (for the first time) at CompUSA and I have to say that I was actually quite impressed with the feel of the thumbboard. The extra empty area below it allowed for me to rest the inside of my palms on it, thus improving usability. I'll add, though, that I much prefer Handera's implementation of a soft Graffiti area for this reason: Both the PPC and the Sony NR70 have an extra toolbar visible below the Graffiti area. This is more wasted space and also can add to errors when entering data if your stylus stroke crosses this toolbar (it won't be recognized). I hope when PalmSource finally gets soft-Graffiti going, they do it right. That said, now that I've seen the 320x480 transreflective screen of the NR70, this is the resolution I want.

Scott

[Charles Pickrell]

I think this might be a good gaming device for Palm. a 320x320 display can hold a lot of detailed graphics. Now if Palm will help developers make ARM and not Dragonball based applications.

[PPCRules]

Originally Posted by Charles Pickrell

I think this might be a good gaming device for Palm.

There you have it. Clip on gaming controls to fit in the notched area.

Originally Posted by mookie123

all in all this seems to be a direct competition to E310, instead of the Palm that will squash PPC.

What Palm is going to squash PPC? Does anyone believe that?

[Venturello]

Yes, posting here is biased, SO WHAT?

It is a high res screen, pics are pixelated, I could guess something to do with the device slow processor, maybe?

Its still a palm. No multitasking, no speed, same boring interface... same thing of the last few years IMHO. Same stupid graphiti... etc etc.

Get a real pc in your pocket!! And get over palm... I dont get it how palm has so many hard core fanatics... dont they get it?

[dstrauss]

But that's the point - if it were virtual graffiti, you get even more usable screen space in smaller form factor. I sure hope this one sees daylight.

[Foo Fighter]

Originally Posted by Venturello

...I could guess something to do with the device slow processor, maybe?

Slow processor? It's running on a 200mhz ARM.

, no speed,

Slow? You are using a PocketPC and yet you complain about slow speeds on a Palm? This is a joke, right? :roll:

[Foo Fighter]

I wonder why the rest of the name is concealed. What difference does it make?

[Take1]

Why does Palm refuse to take the leap and get a PPC/Clie type screen aspect ratio? Square srceen stink for text, spreadsheet, and anything else where you need to see a lot of inoformation at one time. The Sony NR series is the only color device to do this right.

The design looks pretty cool and I agree that PPCs need to think 'smaller' when designing their next gen. PPCs.