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Nokia N810
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:38 am
by greggh
Engadget has the first pics. Looks really nice. A real keyboard!
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/17/noki ... rops-jaws/
Edit: Nokia now has the demo for it up
http://www.nseries.com/index.html#l=products,n810,demo
It seems most of the replies on InternetTabletTalk are negative
http://www.internettablettalk.com/forum ... hp?t=10627
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:01 pm
by Patrick
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:05 pm
by greggh
It will probably actually sell for closer to $400 though. Isn't that about where the N800 sold for when it first came out?
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:06 pm
by Patrick
The official Nokia site has been updated:
http://www.nseries.com/index.html#l=home
The N800 have dropped to around $230-$240 in anticipation of this. My guess is you'll be able to pick an N800 for about $199 once the N810 hits the streets.
Some of the comments on digg are so idiotic. People don't know how to read or even bother:
http://www.digg.com/gadgets/Nokia_s_N81 ... drops_jaws
And Linux devices weighs in:
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS3669465936.html
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:55 pm
by greggh
Webware / Cnet has a video demo of it...
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9798987-2.html
The internal storage is 2GB. The rest of the N810's features are similar to that of its predecessors. It has instant messaging, e-mail, a media player, an RSS reader, an image viewer, an FM transmitter, and a microSD card slot.
I hope the part about it having a microSD slot is a mistake. That would be the dumbest thing ever to go from 2 full sized SD slots in the N800 to 1 microSD slot in the N810.
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:12 pm
by jaz
I agree w/ Pat, it is priced too high. I see Asus released the Eee PC for $199 (another Linux gizmo toy).
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:27 pm
by snarkout
No clamshell again sucks, really sucks IMO, but the keyboard is a very good idea. I can only assume this is to make aftermarket $$$ off of covers or something equally as lame. The clamshell was probably the single best thing about the 770 IMO - oh well. Integrated GPS rocks, but the unit getting pretty damn thick now, by the looks of it.
Nokia has some really big issues with choosing a memory format and sticking with it for some reason - I hear the same complaints about their phones.
Obviously just first impressions...
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:47 pm
by davijordan
Competition is coming!
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:32 am
by greggh
Snarkout wrote:No clamshell again sucks, really sucks IMO,
Completely agree. It's crazy that practically all of Nokia's phones are clam shell design, yet they refuse to give us a clamshell tablet. Why the hell do we have to deal with cases and covers to avoid destroying the screen when throwing this in your pocket with your keys? And the fact they added a real keyboard to this and still didn't take the opportunity to put it on a hinged cover protecting the screen is almost like a big F U to the user.
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:05 am
by tom_mc
How does this Nokia N810 compare to the Archos 705 WiFi ?
Thanks
Tom
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:40 am
by BobCFC
They have replaced Opera browser with Maemo Firefox with Flash 9 and Ajax capabilities. This software update has apparently been made available free to existing N800 users (LINC!)
Also has built in GPS
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:59 am
by snarkout
BobCFC wrote:They have replaced Opera browser with Maemo Firefox with Flash 9 and Ajax capabilities. This software update has apparently been made available free to existing N800 users (LINC!)
They claimed that they were going to backport a bunch of shit to the 770, too, but that never really happened. Last time I checked, there was some pretty large disparity between the 770 and 800 communitywise, too - things that are only available on one or the other. A fractured community isn't good for anyone, really. I hope that the specs on the n800 and the n810 are similar enough this doesn't happen again.
This technology is so weird - I want to embrace it, but I don't really have room in my life for another gadget that doesn't actually replace another one I already have to carry around. Like I've said in the past, I think that if I managed a campus or something, and had wifi available everywhere, this would be an excellent tool for on-the-run computing. I don't, so it would really just be an expensive geek toy which I have no excuse for buying.
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:12 am
by Patrick
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:12 pm
by davijordan
There is a boat load of nokia 770 models on ebay now. Some with a starting price as low as 50 dollars. for that price it would be fun to play with, Is there a vt100 emulator for it?
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 7:26 pm
by snarkout
davijordan wrote:Is there a vt100 emulator for it?
There is a shell - not sure if it's vt100. I only have few devices I attach to that really care, so I don't tend to check. $50-100 for a 770 would totally be worth it. They're certainly very fun, even if I don't consider them especially "useful." Kids love them - tuxpaint is available (though kind of a pita to install) and they play movies, albeit in a very constrained format.