Nokia released a Nokia N810 survey that basically asks for feedback on most of the N810’s apps and features. It will ask you to rate each standard app that it comes with, what other apps you regularly use, GPS feedback, where you ask for support ( don’t forget to mention Internet Tablet Talk ), frequency of use, and likes and dislikes. It will also ask for what other features you want it to have. The survey is quite thorough and be prepared to allot about 15 minutes to complete the survey.
At the end, you will be asked (not required) for you name and email address. Filling it up will entitle you for an entry to a raffle where Nokia will give away a multimedia speaker system and headphones. The raffle will take place on August 30, 2008.
For those wondering if the survey is legit, I did get a confirmation from Nokia that the survey actually came from them.
Why web pads, internet tablets and ultra-mobiles aren’t the same thing
Ari Jaaksi famously announced the walkaround web in November 2005 when he pointed out that surfing wasn’t stationary any more than phone calls were. Cellphones had untethered calling, and a device like the first Nokia Internet Tablet meant the internet was available anywhere we were. We didn’t need to go to a computer in a specific location to get to the web any more than we needed to find a payphone to make a phone call.
Henceforth, we could carry our web-access with us, the same way we carry our phones. Ari said it all when he wrote: “I surf in trains, in cafeterias, at airports, even while driving. I can go online anytime and anywhere I want.” He called his observations “bold” but they were in fact revolutionary in understanding how this changes not computing, not using the web, but how we organize our lives.
Long before I heard of the Nokia 770, I used a small, keyboardless WiFi-enabled tablet to access the internet from Bryant Park in New York City. The notion of the web away from the desk antedated Nokia’s efforts by many years. By my count, it produced at least eight web pads (the contemporary term) prior to the 770, all of which failed to establish themselves.
My most complete experience was with the Screen Media FreePad, from a Norwegian outfit. The FreePad had a 10.4-inch screen, 800 x 600 resolution, built-in WiFi and “cordless telephone services”; and it ran an embedded Linux. No disk drive; if you wanted, you could attach a USB keyboard.
The rest of FreePad’s hardware was feeble by today’s standards but practical for 2000. Even back then the group I was working with expected to buy the FreePad for just $800 (in quantity).[1]
Eight years ago, and only $800. WiFi was in its nascent stages then, but if you were describing an organization-wide device (as we were) and not a personal weblet,[2] that probably wasn’t what kept the FreePad from succeeding.
We all know how hard it is to get release dates out of Nokia — sort of an extreme version of “ask me no questions, I’ll tell you no lies.”
But it’s even harder to get word of a product’s demise. One day a product shortage is a sales-finished notice. That’s why this random encounter with an unavailable-in-your-area notice for the Nokia N800 makes me wonder what’s in store.
PS: Did I say the unavailable area is North America the U.S.? Seems like a pretty big market to run dry in.
Added later: Now someone’s posted the info that Dell has discontinued selling the N800.
Here’s an exclusive at Internet Tablet Talk. We were able to get permission from Nokia to play the Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition launch video here at itT. Enjoy!
Please do not embed, copy, or distribute this video without proper permission from Nokia.
If you haven’t seen the Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition in action and the side-by-side pics with the N810 Standard Edition, you can view them here.
It seems like folks from the Nokia Research Center Bochum in Germany are developing a project called “noBounds” that provides a low-power solution for mobile users to expand Smartphone and Internet Tablet screens to higher resolution external displays such as high definition (HD) panels, projectors, and near-to-eye displays (NED). The project aims to output video at FullHD (1920×1080p) at 30 frames per second (faster on partial display changes) via USB or WLAN. Connect a USB keyboard or a mouse, an you have a mobile personal computer anywhere you go.
The use-case video demos how the python based noBounds app runs on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet.
Read the full email we got from noBounds innovator and Project Manager, Bernd Steinke after the jump.
Quim Gil was kind enough to upload Dr. Ari Jaaki’s talk yesterday at OSiM on “What Mobile Users Need and How Open Source Can Help.” Ari discusses integration of open source end-users and communities, business opportunities, difficulties, upstream projects, and even mentions internet tablet ‘horror stories’/mistakes on the Mozilla browser and the email app. Listen to the podcast now:
Nokia has lowered the price (at least in the US) of the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. The price of the Nokia N810 has gone down by $90 to $389.99.
If you purchase an N810 directly from the Nokia Nseries online store, you can get an additional 15% off by using the ‘SCENEZINE’ coupon code, bringing the final price down to $331.49 with a free 2-day shipping from FedEx. Great price!
Saying goodbye to the old flame (a gone-to-seed Thinkpad):
I’m sorry, so sorry. I know I have spent many hours with you, spent hundreds of dollars treating you to all the best money could buy. I have made sure you had everything you have needed in the years we have been together. I even loved you enough to load Linux instead of Windows.
I’m sorry, so sorry I do not spend as much time with you as I once did but I must be honest. I have found a new love. My new love is thinner, prettier and more fun….
I’m sorry, so sorry. I’m not trying to rub it in but this Nokia N810 does nearly everything I once needed you to do.
With a new device like a Nokia Internet Tablet, a hazy fog of “what do I do?” envelops the break-in period.
How do I connect to the router? How do I get the GPS going? How the heck do I build a playlist in this fershlugginer player?
Of course, dealing with these questions is one of the main purposes of this website.
But even before you have specific questions, the unfamiliar can boggle you. Even with my experiences breaking in the 770 and N800, I’ve been confounded now and then with my new N810.
I think the Nokiahowto.com pages on the N810 should be put on the device itself. They’re more helpful to a new user than the help files and the PDF user manual.
Why is that? They’re nothing exotic, merely short, simple animations. I guess it’s a case of show being more helpful than tell.
Nokia has released a new firmware update to OS2008. Maemo.org is reporting that this release (v2.2007.51-3) fixes the following bugs:
2417 No includes for libapt-pkg (aka libapt-pkg-dev)
2917 libgdbm-dev is reported missing with chinook’s apt-get
2766 Missing libxslt1-dev in chinook
2901 Can’t install blues-utils-tools on current n810.
Reports from Internet Tablet Talk members say that the only thing this update fixes is the power-on problem. It looks like however that this update is more for the developers, as indicated at Maemo.org and from the release notes and from the Maemo 4.0 to 4.0.1 comparison table.
), frequency of use, and likes and dislikes. It will also ask for what other features you want it to have. The survey is quite thorough and be prepared to allot about 15 minutes to complete the survey.
