THe official release of the new OS for Nokia 770 devices is out. I’ve only been playing with it for a few hours so far, but I have to admit I’m not as blown away as I was hoping to be. There’s a bunch of really interesting great stuff in the new release. The Google talk/messenger integration is fantastic, virtual memory is supported now, the package manger runs against live online repositories. All fantastic stuff!

However there were a bunch of stability problems with OS2006 that I was hoping to see cleared up by official release. In the fooling around I’ve done so far it doesn’t look like they have been. The browser in particular still causes a lot of problems. I’ve had it crash a few times on me while viewing the “tableteer” content that seems to have been created specifically for the 770 device. The package manager was working a bit flakey for me. It had cached a somehow corrupted version of the openssh packages and I had to blow them away via the command line and redownload them to get them working. I even had the device as a whole spontaneously reboot on me when I tried to pull up the streaming audio tool (which has worked since, that seems to have been just a one time thing).

There’s definitely great stuff in there. Fantastic stuff! But it needs some work on the stability and consistency end. I would love to see a point release or two in the next month aimed at heading off these stability issues.