begin quoting David Brown as of Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 05:50:46PM -0800: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 05:40:30PM -0800, Rick Funderburg wrote: > > >The N810[1] is Nokia's latest Linux-based internet tablet. Anyone have > >one? > > I bought a 770 when woot.com had them for $130. It spends most of its time > collecting dust. I guess I just found that hacking it wasn't really all > that exciting, and it wasn't really a useful device.
It's not bad as a book reader. Takes too long to power up to be a good PDA, alas. > I could see the N810 actually being useful, if anything, because it has a > keyboard. You do have to download a terminal emulator and an ssh package, > but then it makes a decent little terminal. I *am* getting tired of the stylus thing. I took to Grafitti faster than I'm taking to the handwriting recognition. (But my handspring is effectively dead.) A keyboard might be nice; I've been wondering if I could get one of the Voyager phones to play with Cingular/AT&T instead of Verizon. Looking at the picture of the 810 has me wondering if the keyboard would be all that useful. Most of the "keyboard" PDAs/phones have TERRIBLE keyboards. > But, the 810 is also a lot more money. There's that. -- When everywhere has free wireless Luxury will be 'no net access'. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
