Re: This N800 is better than I thought after all...
 

Hedgecore, I see you and I live in the same city :-)

Like many of you guys, I followed 770 from early days that it was announced and got one as soon as I could (you know how hard to get them in Canada then). I love it, despite its shortcomings.
While I was reading related blogs, ITT and Maemo, I didn't get involved till N800 or better to say Nokia announcement that 770 will be out of sync with the new device came out, which was too much to bear.

I need a little more than what N800 does; in particular, I need proper AJAX support to use services like Google Calendar. I also want a good PIM to cover my professional needs, which I have to get from my Nokia 6680 now.

What's tempting about N800 is having much more storage; also because better hardware, probably some apps that I use (remote access stuff) should perform better. BTW, for us, early adaptors of Internet Tablets, it would be a piece of memorabilia too ;~)

Re: This N800 is better than I thought after all...
 

Congrats on your new N800!

Re: This N800 is better than I thought after all...
 

I must admit I'm astonished by the Nokia decision to not even support usb host mode in hardware (unlike the 770) [EDIT: Yesyes, it seems the situation isn't that bad after all - it's on-the-go that's missing, not host mode. Nothing to see here, go to next posts please. :) ]. Well, I can live without it, but it would have been nice. Strange that they did this backwards step, as otherwise they did _exactly_ as I was yelling for: "Double the RAM, change to SD, and incidentally TWO card slots would be even better". Oh well. At least the wi-fi is terrific, very sensitive (much better than my wireless router with an external antenna, for example), and there's no battery drain compared to my T3 w/wi-fi card.
But the missing host mode for USB makes me scratch my head as to what they were thinking.

(still catching up on old threads after a week away..:cool: )

Re: This N800 is better than I thought after all...
 

Yeah, I don't understand the usb decision myself. Seems to me host mode would have been a given.

Re: This N800 is better than I thought after all...
 

Actually, I wonder if host mode is really out. All this is apparently based on the comment of one Nokia rep in a forum who said that "the hardware didn't support it".

Maybe he was referring to the absence of power on the USB bus?

Re: This N800 is better than I thought after all...
 

He also referred specifically to "OSB OTG" (on-the-go), which I think is not quite the same as plain USB host...

Re: This N800 is better than I thought after all...
 

Exactly. It's funny because you can set it to "host mode" using the flasher but it doesn't seem to change anything since it still will connect to a PC as mass storage when plugged in. I talked to a linux-USB guy who actually mentioned using his N800 in host mode. From what I understand it's not possible to have "true" OTG support because you would need a different connector on the device which would allow you to use normal cables as well as automatically switching to host mode. That given, it should be just a matter of software support to force it into (working) host mode. I can hardly wait!

Larry

Re: This N800 is better than I thought after all...
 

So we keep our fingers crossed for a while more..

Re: This N800 is better than I thought after all...
 

I don't understand this; if the connector (read hardware) doesn't support USB Host mode, then, how software will?!

Can someone enlighten me, please?

Re: This N800 is better than I thought after all...
 

It's OTG that's not supported-- USB host mode is, or will be.

Larry