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.
Thoughtfix just released a comprehensive comparative review of the Asus Eee 701 and the new Nokia N810 Internet Tablet:
… I’m sticking with the N810 as my favorite “secondary” (non-phone) device. It fits my life much better than the Eee does. However, I am not one to turn away from a well-designed ultraportable. I’m going to have a good deal of fun with the Eee and enjoy it as my secondary home computer, but the N810 will get a lot more use out of the home.
Read the full review.
We would like to kick off Tablet 101, the newest section of Internet Tablet Talk, with itT’s two-part Nokia N810 Walkthrough high-definition videos.
- Part I - the Nokia N810 on all its angles in HD, as well as side-by-side with the Nokia N800 and the Nokia 770 (11 minutes)
- Part II - the Nokia N810 and OS 2008, what’s new, and Rhapsody demo (16 minutes)
If you still haven’t seen them, here are more high-resolution pics of the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet over at the itT Gallery.
We plan to create more Tablet 101 tutorial videos as well as application demos. Let us know how you like the videos and suggest what you want to see next.
It has been two weeks since the three of us received our Nokia N810 Internet Tablet test units. Check out our first ever joint podcast where we talk about how we have been using the N810, what we think about it, and what we envision about its future.
Hosts:
Daniel Gentleman (aka Thoughtfix) - Tabletblog
Jonathan Greene - Maemoapps and Atmaspheric Endeavors
Reggie Suplido - Internet Tablet Talk
Listen to the podcast.
Total time: 53 minutes
File size: 17.7MB
File: podcast1.mp3 (right-click and save as)
After a tiring but fun and exciting trip, I’m back home. This is the only time I got to take decent pics of the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet — angles, what’s in the box, and comparison pics with the Nokia 770 and the Nokia N800. I hope you enjoy them. Initial impressions coming soon.
An even higher-res set is now available in the gallery.
Continue reading ‘Nokia N810 Internet Tablet Hi-res Pics’
DL.TV (eg, Digital Life) has a 9:13 video segment on the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. What’s interesting to me is to see the surfing capabilities and PDF viewing tested/demonstrated without pause, going from one website to another so casually I lost track of how many sites were visited. Someone who has not seen an N800 demonstrated gets a real sense of its speed here.
The video capabilities of the device are admired, not overly, but acknowledging the difficulties and room for improvement (and no mention of YouTube) and the comparisons are made to cellphones for surfing not to laptops. The video VoIP coming is offhandedly described as a killer app, which I really believe. And twice the tablet is called a toy. This may be because the hosts aren’t really interested in it as a general-purpose machine (”I believe, I’m not positive, but I believe it’s built on top of Linux,” we’re told) and how one would go about adding applications or running Python, say, doesn’t appear to have shown up on their checklist of features to check out.
Nonetheless, their admiration shown is real, not feigned, based on what they perceive as the N800’s real capabilities.
Via Ring Nokia.
I ran across the Iron Cook’s Spicy Gadget Roll blog this morning, where Cook (aka Phi Nguyen) has a lengthy appreciation/review of the Nokia N800, complete with 35 minutes of videos and 28 photos. The photo comparing the N800’s size to a ballpoint pen and credit card was so clever, I’m showing it here rather than just lifting the idea (I’ve cropped it slightly).
I also liked how Cook took six websites (engadget, digg) and showed what you get with 800-pixel-wide viewing, and what you would have to scroll to see. (Looking at all of these together shows how the sites that write about small devices make sure their content is on the left. Wish more sites would wake up to this need.)
So much video I didn’t get to watch it all, but that aspect puts this at the top or near the top of my recommended sites to learn about the N800.
– Roger Sperberg
