Comments on: Considering a Nokia N810

By: Callum

Callum — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:06:37 +0000

@Fergy: Have you tried the N810 keyboard? I find the keyboard on my treo is pretty good. Kasper reckons it’s pretty usable.

By: Fergy

Fergy — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:32:42 +0000

Not a huge fan of flip out keyboards as i feel they take up more space than usefulness.

By: Callum

Callum — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:18:03 +0000

ef, thanks for the feedback, that’s great.

No video in Skype? That sucks, that was one of my major motivations. I don’t have an in-built webcam in my laptop and I miss it. Having had a few video calls with people, it’s really the next level of communication. I figured at least if I had it on the tablet it would save me upgrading for a while. Hmm, might have to research this…

By: ef

ef — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:14:16 +0000

I’m very happy with my N810, mostly because I like the fact it’s a real linux box and I can hack everythinh on it (become root, ssh, etc). The OS is completely open so you can tweak everything.. and the community is nice (-> internet tablet talk)

As a media player, it’s ok (plays everything - with mplayer) but the available players are not that good (clumsy interfaces, not very eye candy)..

If you have a wifi access (no 3G), the browser experience is very good. Big screen, don’t need to zoom around, flash, ajax… The keyboard is fine, too. You can use gmail withouth a glitch.

The GPS has a first-fix-time problem. After a cold boot, you often have to sit and wait 5-10 minutes under a clear sky to get a fix… Then it’s ok. I don’t use the GPS-maps includes but maemo-mapper, which downloads (and cache) maps from googlemaps, microsoft and others..

Skype works fine but no video. Gizmo has video but never really tried yet