anyone trade their n810 for ipod touch
 

anyone do that?
did the regret it?
i am really attracted by the touch's eye candy as well as fast browsing.....
i am just a normal end user - use my 810 for movies...internet..and jotting down notes.....am i making a big mistake?

Re: anyone trade their n810 for ipod touch
 

do the optimization, and i dont think that you'll regret it any time soon, maybe if the touch has some amazing stuff off the SDK, but its a pay to upgrade thing. so go w/ the the N810, notes are great, internet too. Movies may take some work, but if you rip to psp format should work.
not a mistake, trust me

Re: anyone trade their n810 for ipod touch
 

If you care about browsing - N810 wins hands down. By a large margin. More pixels => better browsing. And the zoom is just as functional (I personally find the zoom keys MUCH MUCH more ergonomic than that two finger stuff you have to do on the iphone/touch). I don't know about flash support, but given Steve Jobs snide remarks, I'd guess that Apple couldn't make flash work properly on the iPhone/ipod touch.

Martin

Re: anyone trade their n810 for ipod touch
 

yea thats a good point
but off topic for a sec
future wise - dont you think the nokia tablets will just end up like psion? they are niche products and will prob never go mainstream...
thats my 2c anyway

Re: anyone trade their n810 for ipod touch
 

So? A lot of people were happy with their psions after they stopped making them. And, yes, after it gets ditched by Nokia (presuming that happens), you'll have to get something else. If you bought a 1g iPod Touch, you'd have to get something else anyhow, because the non-replacable battery would be dead by then; the only real loss you could possibly suffer (in my mind) is the investment in learning Maemo-specific stuff. And I think it's easily worth that, for all the benefits while it lasts.

Re: anyone trade their n810 for ipod touch
 

Perhaps, but the whole field of MIDs is expanding. So even if I won't be using a Nokia tablet, it might just be another great MID. It's nice having something really small and portable (before I'd just carry my laptop around). Now it's pocket sized. :D

Re: anyone trade their n810 for ipod touch
 

I have both.

The iPod Touch is an MP3 player.

The Nokia N8x0 is a computer!

Re: anyone trade their n810 for ipod touch
 

um i think its more like this
" iPod Touch is a computer in a steel cage with guards"
" N810 is a linux computer"

Re: anyone trade their n810 for ipod touch
 

I might have bought the iPod touch if it had a functional BT DUN stack. The fact of the matter is I like the idea of the OSX Mobile platform, but the iPhone costs a bloody fortune and the Touch will always be crippled in order to not compete with it's big, revenue generating, brother.

Re: anyone trade their n810 for ipod touch
 

Hint: Nokia knows the future is not phones as we know them now.

Re: anyone trade their n810 for ipod touch
 

I truly love my N810. Coupled with the brilliant programers who create programs for the NiT, I would definately choose them over a crippled iTouch. From a media standpoint, I don't think anything can compare with canola2 and integrated stereo speakers.

Re: anyone trade their n810 for ipod touch
 

I have the N800 (not N810, which I wouldn't buy because I detest thumbboards, not to mention sliders) and an iPod Touch. In my opinion, the Touch is far superior for web browsing. Double-tapping on the column (etc.) that you want to zoom into is much quicker and less frustrating than using the fixed zoom levels (120%, 150%, 180% etc.). Navigation is also quicker and easier.

These days, I mainly use the N800 for taking notes using a Bluetooth keyboard (you can't do that with the Touch, which doesn't have Bluetooth, or even with the iPhone, which does). I often carry both but I find I use the Touch a lot more.

Bottom line: if you're going to use it mainly for browsing, get the Touch; if you need to use a harware keyboard, don't.

Re: anyone trade their n810 for ipod touch
 

. . . and my experience has been exactly the opposite. Safari on the iPhone is just painful for me, while MicroB is both much more compatible and more usable. Honestly, Safari on the iMobile stuff isn't really all that far ahead of the rest of the mobile browser pack (screen resolution really comes into play here).

Bottom line: advice from random jerk-offs on the internet is almost always only a little useful, do whatever you can to get both devices in your hands and try them. :D

Re: anyone trade their n810 for ipod touch
 

I just flat refuse to browse very often on any screen smaller than an N810's. Not gonna happen.

Re: anyone trade their n810 for ipod touch
 

The iPod would be singing 'Rusty Cage', only... It has no speaker!

(Picture iPod piezo-buzzing a truly heart-breaking rendition...)