I’ve been meaning to install the 2.0 Beta of the Maemo software for Nokia 770 for a little while, and today is official “install a whole bunch of new stuff I know I won’t have time to play with” night. I saw Russ playing around with the new release, and I started getting upgrade envy. I installed it hoping that at some later point when sitting somewhere with decent connectivity I’ll have time to play around with the features and install some additional software. But I did try out a 770 to 770 GTalk connection with Russ.

Now due to a comedy of errors on the part of Comcast (today’s tech said “The guy who was out here last time didn’t have a meter with him? He didn’t check this line at all did he?”) I still don’t have an Internet connection of my very own at home. I’m actually sipping off the open wifi of a neighbor in another appartment. And still, I was impressed with the call. We were able to hear each other very clearly and talking into the 770 isn’t nearly as awkward as I expected it to be. This was my first attempt, so I’m not sure if it’s going to be representative of the overall experience. But certainly a good start.

I need to install the 2.0 SDK and play around some. I went through the tutorial before, but I don’t remember a lot of the topics that are in the 2.0 version of the tutorial, so I clearly have some catching up to do.