Re: Should I buy N800?
 

I'm a new owner/user and I'm really liking it. If you like tinkering with technology you'll enjoy it. Serious geek factor :)

The supporting community also seems to be a good bunch of people willing to help regardless of how silly my questions are.

I have the power on/off problem but have resigned to just leaving it on and charging it every so often. The battery life amazes me. I bring it to work and use it on and off all day checking email and occasionally surfing and it never comes close to running out of power. I just charge it overnight and I'm good to go the next day. I bought mine at MacMall for $199 shipped but not sure if the deal is dead or not.

Re: Should I buy N800?
 

Dumb question, what is the on/off problem?

Can also reccomend the N800, it is imo the best buy, though am thinking about getting the N810 since I never will get used to the onscreen keyboard, but other than that the N800 is a suberb little device.

Re: Should I buy N800?
 

- no, no, no! i have 32GB total storage, consisting of (2) 16GB SDHC cards (as the n800 has [2] SD slots)...

- this is a 'sweet spot' for $ vs storage, working out to US$3.75 per GB... IOW, i got the 16GB cards for US$59 each...

- the 32GB SDHC is too expensive right now... (almost US$400!) but when it comes down in price, we'll have 64GB storage for our n800s!

:-)

Re: Should I buy N800?
 

I'm a cheapskate -- bought only one 16 GB now, but I'll buy a 32 GB when they come down, so I'll have 48 GB, and not have to throw $120 of old SDs away :p

Re: Should I buy N800?
 

Hmm cool! Some problems I foresee would be...

-Getting a screen protector
-Getting a proper case

The N800 isn't popular in my country (Singapore). Do you guys use the default pouch that comes with the N800? How well does it work?

Also, is a screen protector needed? I tried out the demo set and it seems the touch screen is quite hardy.

Re: Should I buy N800?
 

Nokia's screens have always been great. My Nokia E70 suffers a lot of abuse (many droppings and in the same pocket with my keys) and only has a few minor scratches in which you can't see unless you tilt it at an angle and reflect it off of a powerful light. The screen protector isn't needed unless you're getting some of the nice anti-glare stuff. A case would be nice as when you're not using it is when you're likely to scratch your screen up.

Re: Should I buy N800?
 

My N800 had the power on /off problem.Hopefully I fixed it.
Following is what I did:
1.bought a scandisk SDHC card and put it in internal slot(internal slot is picky).
2.boot from internal SD card(lots of people did in this forum).
3.cleaned the files on SD card(I had 10000+ on my SD card).

Trust me even there is a new framewire lots of users would still have The power on /off problem.It maybe the hardware problem(interal flash(flash)).

Re: Should I buy N800?
 

Well I can speak about me in another country where the N800 is not that popular (I just know 2 people with one, and one of them is a guy from the Nokia Store). Mexico.

Of course I can't find things for the N800 here... but the screen protectors of the PSP are almost perfect (they need a 3 mm trim) and the same goes for the case... I got a great one that is meant to be for PSP but works perfectly for my N800...

I use the pouch when I'm not on the road...

BTW, the N800 comes with a "Screen protector", just remove the hologram but not the plastic covering (even though it gets all scratched in a month) (the plastic cover, not the screen of course)

Re: Should I buy N800?
 

HAHAHA...d'oh!!! OK....but boy a 64gb NIT...how cool would that be? Then again, beyond video & audio, what would you store in that sorta room? I mean it's not like you can run a CAD program on the thing...yet...

;)

Re: Should I buy N800?
 

Lessee,

• Video (movies, television shows, random clips).
• Audio (music, podcasts, audio books)
• Pictures (photos, art, digital)
• ebooks (reference PDFs, HTML, RTF, TXT)
• Games (ScummVM, pupnik's ports, Doom/Quake data)
• Application data (documents, spreadsheets, Maemo Mapper/"Map" maps)
• Alternative bootables (Debian, KDE, Poky, ITOS)

Yeah, it adds up rather quickly. Of particular interest to me is being able to keep a lot of movies and television shows on there. I'm a big fan of a lot of the Adult Swim shows (particularly Frisky Dingo and Metalocalypse), and the tablet is a great way to introduce friends to them.