Aaron Levinson has posted to the itT forums about the port of a VNC viewer to the Nokia 770. This, he notes, is different from earlier announcements because “these were strictly builds of the RealVNC vncviewer client and were not GTK/maemo software applications. As such, they lacked certain GTK/maemo amenities, the biggest being no text input methods.”

I can report that his viewer works, text input and all, and the impact is overwhelming. (Some of the text in this report was entered from my 770.)

Download here: www.aracnet.com/~alevinsn/vncviewer_0.1_arm.deb

Above is a screenshot of my Nokia 770 controlling my Windows XP laptop, complete with IM, password-saving program and RealVNC website in Firefox. You can see that Microsoft Outlook is running is well. The screenshot doesn’t do justice to what you see onscreen because of the reduction to fit our column width.

Below is the viewer in full-screen mode with virtual keyboard active. You call it up by pressing the Enter key, in the middle of the scroll keys. Obviously in full-screen mode, with the toolbar removed, considerably more real estate on my Windows machine is visible. (What’s onscreen isn’t the same in the two screenshots because I moved things around to keep my passwords and IM contacts private.)