On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Meir Michanie wrote:
Continuing my reviews I would like to encourage everyone to get a Nokia n800 internet tablet.
I concur.
I previously owned zaurus pdas and I was scared about getting a device with a builtin qwerty keyboard. I was wrong. I bought the n800, a standard hp bluetooth keyboard and a small bluetooth gps box.
It really sounds like you want an N810.
I already ran sshd and a chroot debian (inside it I have gcc, perl, ...) It is a real substitution of my laptop and I mean it. This week I sent my laptop to HP labs and I keep working on the nokia box. Recently nokia announced a new model , the n810 which it has gps and hardware keyboard. I am waiting that it comes out to buy another n800 instead. Why I think N800 is better than the upcoming N810. 1. N810 battery will drain out quicker as the gps eats from the same battery.
N810 has different (bigger?) battery. GPS can probably be turned off when unused.
2. Someone in the list posted how to install hebrew fonts and keyboard
That was me. For reference, the instructions are at http://www.maemo.org/community/wiki/Hebrew
for the n770 (it works also in n800. Having a hardware keyboard instead the onscreen locks you to the printer characters in the hw keypad.
N810 still has on screen keyboard. It is not hard to print hebrew characters on keyboard. It is even not so hard to type hebrew on a keyboard that has no hebrew characters printed on it.
3. I prefer typing in a big keyboard with more than the two thumbs as with a phone
Can't argue with that.
4. Sometimes you want to put the gps receiver right under the sun inside the card where there is the best reception. but it is not the best place to look at the screen of your handheld.
N810 has transflective screen, so it should be all right in direct sunlight.
Conclusion: I wish all the best to nokia and I hope truly linux/unix hackers support them buy buying these devices and enjoying linux everywhere.
On the other hand the N810 is really expensive right now, and the N800 became much cheaper.
I think the best news that the N810 brings is OS2008, in which porting GTK applications to Hildon becomes easier, so we should expect to see more programs available.
I do hope that the Nokia internet tablet will become more common in Israel. Maybe at the end Nokia will even decide to sell them here.
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