Hi John, Thanks for the info. I really appreciate knowing everything you have mentioned about the Nokia N800. You mentioned Select Radio souldn't work because of the Linux system...do you if other software from download.com can be downloaded and instaled on the Nokia N800 as long as its Linux software ? Does it only support an mp3 player or does it also support Windows Media Player and Real Player ? I would be interested to know if it supports watching live TV from its own mp3 player or other players like VTuner, Replay Radio, etc. Do you know if its possible to listen to XM or Sirius ? I believe I read some where it does support Real Rhapsody. Thanks,
Dave - JohnSwenson;210644 Wrote: > I got a N800 last week, primarily to control slimserver. It works great > with the 770 skin, I'm very happy with it. The speed of controling > slimserver this way seems almost instantaneous. Its way better than > using a laptop which is heavy, cumbersome and gets hot! > > The N800's battery life is quite good. If doing continuous web surfing > switching from page to page you get about 4 hours. If you are > continuously on the webbut spending time reading pages etc it can shut > down the wifi transmitter and this saves a lot, in this mode its > between 6-7 hours. For controlling slimserver where you occasionally > pick it up and push some buttons its somewhere between 4-10 days! > > Web browsing is pretty nice, its a wide enough screen that you can see > most web pages without scrolling, but some are pretty small text. About > half the time I wind up zooming in a step so I can read the text. The > zoom in and out works vey well so don't hesitate to use it. > > I've wound up carrying this thing with me all over the house, I can > read some forums while eating breakfast or do a little research when I > wake up in the middle of the night and don't want o get up and go to > the "big computer". > > Typing is not so great so I would not recommend writing a novel on it > unless you have an external keyboard. It has a stylus keyboard and a > "thumb board" which pops up when you use a finger to point at a text > area. This works pretty well for entering text when holding the tablet, > but the thumb board covers up the whole screen so you can't see the area > of the screen where its going. The stylus board lets you see where you > are entering the text. It also has handwriting recognition but its nots > so great, I just usually use the stylus or thumb board. > > As to your question on Select Radio, it will not work on the N800, its > designed for pocket PCs which run a completely different operating > system. The N800 runs linux. This means there are quite a few third > party linux programs ported to it and many coming all the time. > > Since it has access to the internet it works well for normal internet > radio streaming. You can access them just like you would from any other > omputer connected to the internet. There is an application called > streamtuner specifically designed for keeping lists of internet radio > stations you want to listen to. It works pretty well, but I actually > prefer using slimserver for internet radio access. > The speakers on the N800 are not what you would call audiophile > quality, and they don't go very loud. But if you are a couple inches > away its not too bad. > > It does have a UPnP player so you can use it with a UPnP server if you > have one. > > I've not played with the video streaming. It supposedly is terrible > with youtube. It does a pretty good job with local avi files etc. Since > it has two SD card slots you can put some videos on flash and play them > on the device. > > Currently it can't run softsqueeze, but it should be possible to port > squeezeslave. > > Any more questions I can answer? > > John S. -- NY2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NY2006's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6963 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31398 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
