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RogerS 2008-04-27 17:51

Bye-bye, N800?
 
Quote:

We all know how hard it is to get release dates out of Nokia — sort of an extreme version of "ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies."

But it's even harder to get word of a product's demise. One day a product shortage is a sales-finished notice. That's why this random encounter with an unavailable-in-your-area notice for the Nokia N800 makes me wonder what's in store.

http://www.internettablettalk.com/wp...bye800-500.jpg

PS: Did I say the unavailable area is North America? Seems like a pretty big market to run dry in.
Read the full article.

qwerty12 2008-04-27 18:02

Re: Bye-bye, N800?
 
Sigh. N800 is a good tablet. But as long as we still get updates, I don't mind :)

iliaden 2008-04-27 18:11

Re: Bye-bye, N800?
 
wrong!!!

checked 2 minutes ago - was on stock for Canada (dunno about the US). quite a high price though (300$, vs 230 in tigerdirect.ca)

tso 2008-04-27 18:12

Re: Bye-bye, N800?
 
one thing i worry about is that whatever comes after the N810, it will not have the number and types of card slots that the N800 has...

tabletrat 2008-04-27 18:31

Re: Bye-bye, N800?
 
Currently in stock in the UK, both the 800 and 810

ysss 2008-04-27 18:41

Re: Bye-bye, N800?
 
@tabletrat:
Yes, that's where the leftover stocks are going to be dumped ;)

GeraldKo 2008-04-27 18:50

Re: Bye-bye, N800?
 
Still available in the US at Buy.com, too.

But I'll take the opportunity to whine that I wish Nokia would come out with a keyboard-less successor to the N800, squeezing out the space the keyboard takes up on the N810 to make it a little flatter and lighter. And then I wish they'd license Palm Graffiti for a keyboard alternative, to have in addition to the current one. And that they would copy some of the iPhone keyboard ideas, too (like changing contextually, so that, for example, ".com" becomes a key when you're typing a URL).

While I'm off-topic like this, I'll add another thing I wish Nokia would copy from the iPhone, but which I'd thought of before (even on my PC, before I had an N800) and I'm sure many people have thought of: have a little "x" icon next to the URL in the browser's address bar, and in File Manager and in Dialog Boxes, that can erase whatever is there already. (Does anybody have a solution better than randomly clicking multiple times to highlight a URL in the address bar when all you want to do is get rid of the current URL and replace it?)

mactron 2008-04-27 19:02

Re: Bye-bye, N800?
 
In Europe (germany) it's very hard to get the N800 for a reasonable price. You can't get them from Nokia anymore. I ordered mine from USA. I think the best price is dell.com atm.

sachin007 2008-04-27 19:07

Re: Bye-bye, N800?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by GeraldKo (Post 175313)
Still available in the US at Buy.com, too.

But I'll take the opportunity to whine that I wish Nokia would come out with a keyboard-less successor to the N800, squeezing out the space the keyboard takes up on the N810 to make it a little flatter and lighter. And then I wish they'd license Palm Graffiti for a keyboard alternative, to have in addition to the current one. And that they would copy some of the iPhone keyboard ideas, too (like changing contextually, so that, for example, ".com" becomes a key when you're typing a URL).

While I'm off-topic like this, I'll add another thing I wish Nokia would copy from the iPhone, but which I'd thought of before (even on my PC, before I had an N800) and I'm sure many people have thought of: have a little "x" icon next to the URL in the browser's address bar, and in File Manager and in Dialog Boxes, that can erase whatever is there already. (Does anybody have a solution better than randomly clicking multiple times to highlight a URL in the address bar when all you want to do is get rid of the current URL and replace it?)

Regarding the .com extension.... First of all in the microb browser there is no need to type .com ...... You just type "yahoo" and it takes you to yahoo.com. SO i dont see what is the use for that. Anyhow if you just input .com into the keyboard once.... it will remember .com and the moment you press "." ".com" will be an option for you to press.

Coming to to clearing of the url..... it used to work great in the previous firmware.... where u tap once into the url field and the url already present is highlighted and you just back space. But in this os 2008 this is another regression where sometimes it does not bring up the keyboard when the url is highlighted on a single tap..... sometimes it is irritating. Hope they do not regress any more things.

BoredOOMM 2008-04-27 19:13

Re: Bye-bye, N800?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by GeraldKo (Post 175313)
Still available in the US at Buy.com, too.

I wondered if the $199.99 blowout with free shipping at Dell was a clearance to discontinue.....Dell is not in stock and some links are gone.

Per GeraldKo's link- $228.99 at Buy.com

TigerDirect.com has them in Stock for $228.46 after shipping.

How long does it take Buy.com to ship?


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