[nylug-talk] TIme to get a Nokia N810

[Ruben Safir]

On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 12:46:33PM -0500, Alex Pilosov wrote:
> 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.


I've seen more that a few of these devices (or the N800) totally brick.
This is especailly true when trying to hack them.  And the screen is so
small.

Ruben

> 
> 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
> 
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