{"id":305,"date":"2008-03-09T10:37:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T14:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=305"},"modified":"2008-03-09T10:37:17","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T14:37:17","slug":"nokia-n810","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/305","title":{"rendered":"Nokia N810"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/91\">before<\/a> about the *nix vs. iPhone approach to mobile web fun. Circumstances <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/110\">conspired<\/a> to keep me away from Apple&#8217;s little bar of techno-groove; I&#8217;ve been keeping my eye on the small internet-capable convergence device space for a year now. There are currently a bunch of choices: iPhone, Asus Eee, and 2 internet tablets (their term) from Nokia &#8211; the N800 and N810. Although I still covet an iPhone, I wanted to try an open, more modular platform &#8211; I may end up drinking the Apple kool-aid in 6 months or a year &#8211; who knows. The three open devices provide a nice spectrum &#8211; the N800 on the <a href=\"http:\/\/tabletblog.com\/2008\/02\/three-internet-tablets-are-just-right.html\">info consumption side<\/a> to the Eee on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultramobilegeek.com\/2007\/11\/asus-eee-701-vs-nokia-n810-linux-fight.html\">info production side<\/a>, with the N810 in the middle. I wanted Bluetooth, so I could tether to my cell and get on the net wherever I got cell signal (not an out-of-the-box option w\/ the Eee) and I wanted the device to be pocketable. Survey says? N810 &#8211; especially since there was a really good deal available a week ago (someone trying to make February numbers?). Some early impressions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I knew this going in, but it bears repeating &#8211; not a PDA. This little box is fully into the &#8216;the network is the computer&#8217; space. There is a local email app &#8211; I haven&#8217;t tried it yet.<\/li>\n<li>Some nice subtle touches. When you unplug the tablet from the charger (standard Nokia charger and replaceable battery BTW) a message box pops up momentarily, suggesting you unplug the wall wart as well. If you&#8217;ve locked the screen, sliding the keyboard out automatically unlocks, and if the keyboard is out for a short time (don&#8217;t know what a &#8216;short time&#8217; is yet), the screen will re-lock when the keyboard is stowed.<\/li>\n<li>You can install <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doom_%28video_game%29\">Doom<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>As delivered, the N810 doesn&#8217;t have much local storage. I&#8217;m waiting for 8 Gb mini-SDHC cards to come back into stock at my favorite supplier. In the meantime, I&#8217;m experimenting with universal plug-n-pray media streaming from my desktop (using <a href=\"http:\/\/tversity.com\/home\">TVersity<\/a>) to the media player on the n810. Audio seems to work nicely &#8211; I can stream files that are FLAC-encoded, and since it&#8217;s decoded on the desktop, no fuss or muss at the Nokia end. Video is &#8211; no surprise- more problematic. I&#8217;ve streamed some video files successfully and failed with others &#8211; time to learn about TVersity and how it does its on-the-fly transcoding.<\/li>\n<li>The ease of connection has come in handy already. I was in Best Buy yesterday, burning a gift certificate on upgraded ear-buds. Shocking, I know, but the salesperson I snagged could not answer any of my questions about my first choice. Wait &#8211; I have the internet available! Less than 5 minutes later &#8211; questions answered. While I&#8217;m on the subject of customer service &#8211; when I added a data plan to my cell phone service, I wanted to get my iBook connected (via cellphone\/bluetooth) to the net as a proof of concept. AT&amp;T tech support &#8211; worse than useless (no information is better than incorrect information) &#8211; a quick google, and I was connected (should have done that first, but the iBook told me to get log on info from the cell carrier).<\/li>\n<li>Thanks &#8211; again &#8211; to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glyphjockey.com\/glyphblog.html\">Lex10<\/a> for the wallpaper I&#8217;m using on the N810.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some shots of the N810 doing various things:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/slideShow\/index.gne?group_id=&amp;user_id=&amp;set_id=72157604075575966&amp;tags=Cars,Lotus,Exige\" align=\"middle\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small>Created with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.admarket.se\" title=\"Admarket.se\">Admarket&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/flickrslidr.com\" title=\"flickrSLiDR\">flickrSLiDR<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before about the *nix vs. iPhone approach to mobile web fun. 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