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User Submitted Nokia N810 Portable Internet Tablet Reviews (cont...)Date: 2008-04-20 Good, but not great Nice gadget for checking email & internet on the road. GPS a nice addition for traveling. Skype works great, but audio only. Pros: great screen (crisp, clear, vivid colors), intuitive icons, good battery life, good size (similar to iphone), fast connection to WIFI Cons: GPS VERY slow to find satellites, additional cost for navigation app, mini-sd instead of SD card (and poorly design slot),USB cable connection to PC does not allow file transfer, not a phone (not a directo competitor to the iphone). Video conferencing not supported Date: 2008-04-13 nokia N810 review I attempted to research the unit and others on the market as best possible. I am very satisfied with the unit-- however, the instructions contained with the unit leave lots to be desired. Fortunately, I am close to New York City and Nokia has a showroom /sales center there. I took a trip into NYC and Nokia's store and was able to obtain the assistance to set up the unit and use it to the potential available. On a recent trip I had the Nokia with intead of my lap top and it performed extremely well Date: 2008-04-13 Incredible Internet on the move I operate various websites, blogs, etc.. and keeping in touch with them on the move has been a problem in the past. However the Nokia N810 has been a major breakthrough for me. I have it linked via Bluetooth to my cell phone and I use the data package I have with my cell to browse the internet from my Nokia N810. When I'm Europe, I'm getting 3G speeds from my mobile provider straight to my N810 via Bluetooth. If I move into a Wifi enabled area I simply switch onto Wifi. I'm always connected. Fantastic. The screen is amazingly clear and the integrated Mozilla based browser works very well, displaying every site I visit perfectly. I use Skype & Gizmo to keep in touch with people across the world using Voip. It truly is a great piece of kit. Not forgetting the very good GPS system that works well and the easy to use keyboard for fast typing. Lots of free open source apps to download as well. Very pleased, well done Nokia. Date: 2008-04-12 Nokia N810 I am extreeemly happy with this device. I travel alot, and it's nice to have a complete system at the ready while I am traveling. The Keyboard takes getting use to but is a welcomed addition over my 770 I think some more thought should have gone into applications and command line manipulations, and especially Printing. But overall I would buy these over most other Tablet Devices. Date: 2008-04-10 iPod Touch Might be a Better Choice I bought a Nokia N810 in preference to an iPod Touch because it has an open operating system, runs Skype and has a browser with Flash. In many ways, however, the iPod Touch would have been a better choice. Battery life initially seemed good, with me having to charge it every second day even though it was on-line all the time, mostly on standby running the GMail notifier every 40 minutes. To get Skype to work, I had to update the version of OS2008. It is probably just coincidence, but after that I had to charge it more than once a day (even without Skype running). Now I don't run Skype and I put it into off-line mode when I'm not using it, to save power. The battery meter also goes down quite rapidly if I am using the Media Player to play MP3 files (e.g. podcasts) with the display off. I have converted many of our DVDs for my daughter's iPod Touch and they play back perfectly on the iPod, but very jerkily on the N810. They work better if I convert them again using the Nokia Video Converter, but are still not as smooth as on the iPod. Most applications, but particularly the browser, need more precise touches than can be achieved with a finger or thumb, meaning that the stylus is essential. This is in stark contrast to the iPod which works perfectly with thumb touches, even if the thumb actually covers multiple links. Also, the two-finger Pinch action on the iPod browser is much simpler than using the Zoom buttons on the top of the N810. The N810 does have GPS built-in, but that is of limited value because the maps are inadequate. My home is on a road which has been there for eight years, but is not on the supplied map. (It does exist on the Navteq maps in my Garmin GPS.) The roads that are shown near my home seem to be shown slightly to the South of their real position. Having BlueTooth is useful because the wired headset supplied gets tangled too easily, but I haven't been able to get a stereo headset to work using the A2DP profile, only low quality HSP, so I don't actually know if that is supported. When typing, a useful list of likely words is shown at the foot of the screen (and these CAN be selected relatively easily with a finger). That's better than typing on the iPod. I haven't yet trained it to recognise my handwriting. The range of applications set up for easy installation in OS2008 is still limited, but because the OS is open, more should be available in time. Of course, the iPod Touch isn't perfect either (non-removable battery; fixed memory; no Flash player; occasional need to reset to defaults and set it up again), but I would think it is a better choice than the N810 for most people. This is Nokia's third Internet Tablet, but they still haven't perfected it. One thing to note is that the N810 has a miniSD card slot. Amazon suggested a 6GB MicroSDHC Card with Adapter & Micromate USB 2.0 Reader / Writer to accompany it, which I bought, but the one suggested did not come with a miniSD adapter and I had to go out and buy one separately!
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