[nylug-talk] TIme to get a Nokia N810

[Alex Pilosov]

On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Brian Gupta wrote:

> Just in time for Christmas. http://www.access-company.com/products/gvm/
F that noise, honestly. PalmOS is not even B-game today, it's C game.

However, I do have N810 (two of them) and it is excellent device.

Review for N810:

It is a laptop replacement device. It is not a phone replacement device. 
It is not a PDA replacement device. Battery life is fairly crappy - think 
laptop, as far as charge frequency.

It is a proper laptop - it runs proper mozilla browser (thus, youtube and 
ytmnd render properly), it has xterm (and runs X - so you can ssh out and 
toss x application back onto n810. 

It is a very geeky and hackable device - source for *most* of the OS is 
available and recompilable (although I've yet to try to build it). I'm not 
sure if it can be reuploaded onto the device, but I think yes.

It fits the bill for my intended use, much better than eeepc: I needed
multi-window ssh, irc, email, browser and IM.

Since it runs linux, it is fairly easy to port existing applications,
matter of recompiling for arm6l processor. Porting of X applications is a
*little* bit more involved if you want them to feel like native
applications, but you don't have to, they'll just work.

Comparing it to eeepc, n810 wins hands-down - screen of same resolution 
but n810 is quarter the size. 

Minuses: crappy keyboard. If you ever had 8525/jasjam, it is the same
kind. There's no tactile feeling, and keyboard is too big to thumb-type
with one hand. (again, this is similar to "it is not a PDA"). The
arrow-pad-thingy is not a bad idea but requires too much force (compared
to keypress), crackberry wheel thingy is sooooo much better.


-alex