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User Submitted Nokia N800 Portable Internet Tablet Reviews (cont...)Date: 2008-03-23 Great pocket PC I can't say I've figured out exactly what to do with my Nokia N800 other than check e-mail and experiment with Skype phone calls, but it definitely is cool. It whet my appetite for a mobile computer, and now I'm thinking i-phone so I can be connected even when no wireless hub is around. If there is a useable router nearby, this thing finds it and links up to it quickly (as long as it isn't blocked or you have the password). Typing with the stylus isn't as hard as I thought it might be. Date: 2008-03-21 Amazing product! This is one awesome product! Picked up a bluetooth keyboard to go with it and it is amazing! Upgraded to os2008 and this thing runs like a dream! Date: 2008-03-14 Good, but... Nokia made a good attempt, but needs to try a bit harder. First, the good: -Small and light -Gorgeous screen -Great battery life -Wireless connections just work -- no fiddling around Now, the less-than-good: -No keyboard (I know -- get the 810. But it's $200 more, and the keyboard is all that I want from the 810) -The OS seems as though it was created for a bigger screen. Especially in OS2008, the menus and fonts are HUGE, taking up a lot of screen space and necessitating a lot of scrolling. -This is not a PIM. No attempt was made to even try to make it one, although you can hack up a fair facsimile. -It's a bit slow: start-up time is incredibly long (almost as long as my desktop PC), and it's not as responsive as I'd like it to be. Bottom line: If you're looking for a web browser/book reader/note taker that is small, reasonably quick, and hackable, then this is the gizmo for you. Date: 2008-03-13 this is NOT it needed a small portable internet tablet, iPhone, iPod/T have way too small screens for passable browser use for anybody above 20 and they are all closed architecture. For those reasons I went with N800. This plus Skype, GPS, SIP, etc. Looks-wise the device is OK, kind of uglish but passable. Screen should be LED or OLED not this 10 year old rather crappy technology. Easy to carry around compared to laptops but is not iPod of course. Solid plastic feel. The device is underpowered relative to its screen size, this shows quite badly with video. audio fine. Software is a major major problem here with a few exceptions: Skype is fine (no video though), Media Browser is a few steps below iPod experience but usable (no cover art, no list creation etc) but I'm OK with it. Image Browser positively stinks - (unable to automatically collect all the images on the device). Browser experience is not very good, crude, comparable to iPhone where the screen size makes it rather unpleasant in the long run, here screen size is OK but how you zoom, move around, etc is grossly subpar compared to iPhone. Text entry I find OK, your mileage may differ. Mail program is ridiculously crippled, it won't even read mail from some servers GMAIL for example (over IMAP). That is it will give you headers but not body of the message. This is more than radiculous. There are 3rd party solutions (outrageously complicated program called Claws for example) but almost all 3rd party software, whatever little of it is out there tend to disrupt the operation of this device to the point that in most cases you will have to erase everything and reinstall the OS from scratch. Plus you will be rebooting all the time, the device hangs all the time especially with 3rd party software. PIM functionality (calendar, contacts, etc) is almost nonexistent here,workable 3rd party solutions exist but synching is a major headache here. You need worry free integration of your digital life go with Apple products. Nokia software included with this device generally stinks real bad, in addition to aforementioned MAIL program, SIP client (phone application) has major problems with most SIP providers out there. The included MAP software I find useless on device of this size. Maybe with an optional GPS receiver one could get some use out of it. In summary, browser experience very borderline, mail stinks, passable media player, good Skype platform, bad SIP client, very mediocre MAP/GPS support, basically no serviceable 3rd party software. 2 stars at the most. Date: 2008-03-11 Lipeäkala For the Soul I've had this product for two days and, so far, I like it a lot. I bought it mainly to use as a voip phone. Out of the box, it worked well until I turned it off for the first time. After that the wireless stubbornly remained off, no matter what the setting. Then I upgraded to OS2008 so I could load Skype and everything's been fine ever since. I've made a few phone calls on different networks and the call quality has been fine. Battery life is very good. I have no trouble using it with the online applications I earn a living with, so it's a great backup for my laptop. I was happily surprised when I found I could run Pandora but it crashed the web browser after playing a few songs. I might need more memory. Overall, a little pricey but if you buy it as a cell phone killer, it pays for itself in less than six months.
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