I use the n800 and mplayer for videos.

I can watch divx, xvid, flv, avi files without encoding via mplayer.

Then compared to the browser in the n800 i havent seen any browser half as good as that. flash, ajax etc. Do you know of one mobile browser at 200$ which can do any of these??

Then the third party support which is absolutely free. unlke the winmobile apps.
Voip. show me one portable device which can do gtalk, yahoo, skype and even gizmo for video?

Okay show me any portable device with a 4.13 inch screen which fits in the palm of your hand for 200$.

And then 2 memory cards with a combined memory upto 32gb!!

The speakers are one of the best in a portable device and then there is fm radio and internet radio which by itself is worth more than anything.

Please for god's sake name any device which can do half of these things at that price point!!

We understand that the n800 has some issues like less memory and crashing apps for that price it is the best device i have ever had. It definitely is lot more worth than the 200$ it is selling for right now.

Yes the formats i mentioned there are directly playable without conversion and many more. The problem is that you already converted your media to .mp4 and .mp4 is not an industry standard. That is your mistake. You cant expect everyone to use .mp4 just because you converted them. generally when you download videos from the web they are mostly either xvid, avi, flv, divx etc. .mp4 may be given as an option but not the only one.

I used a2dp with avcrp with kaju on my n800. Now you tell me sub 200$ devices with a2dp and avcrp either natively or modded. I dont see any.

The n800 was never released as a mobile phone replacement. If you think so then it is definitely your fault. it is supposed to go along with your phone which nokia expects to have the pim functionality because that is where all the phone numbers will ultimately be used.

32 gb is more than enough for a mobile device like the n800. then again please show me a sub 200$ with compact flash with support for more than 32 gb. I am actually ignorant here.

You may have thousands of apps but ultimately you would use only a few hundred which are useful to you. yeah those apps did not come overnight it took literally decades to port them. The n800 is just year now. Even winmo had very less apps initally. This happens with all platforms

Yeah it has a slow processor and ram but for a sub 200$ it is sufficient. Be practicalhere.

Gps can be done with bluetooth far more practical than slots. it will have its on power and can be used when necesary like in a car.

Now we can go on figting about these two. but please think practically for 200$ did any one else give such a package??

THe eepc is not a portable device please dont compare that to a n800.

Originally Posted by xxM5xx

CoreMedia Player (TCPMP) is incredible for the Dell Axim, but the Dell screen is smaller and lower res. than the N800, and it is very noticeable. Those extra 180 pixels are substantial. The N800 screen is far nicer for watching a video than the Dell screen.

Dell stopped making pocket pc's some time ago. Dell is selling the Nokia N800 on the Dell website today.

M5

The Nokia N800 rules over the Dell Axim Pocket PCs. I owned many Dell PPCs and I know first hand where there weak points and strong points are. The N800 has more strong points than the X51V. The weaknesses in the Dells pointed out by others earlier in this thread are correct.

The way the WiFi connectivity is done on the Dells ( Windows mobile OS ) is simply horrible. I was always fooling around trying to connect in hotspots with the Dells, particularly where WEP was involved. The Nokia seemlessly connects to any WiFi cloud with ease.

The 624mhz Dell does have bluetooth also, but with Skype (using a bluletooth headset) there is too much number crunching going on for even the 624mhz cpu to keep up....all that encryption stuff and two radios (802.11 and BT) running just overwhelm the Intel CPU in the Dell. If you are going to use the Dell with Skype you will being doing so with a wired headset.

CoreMedia Player (TCPMP) is incredible for the Dell Axim, but the Dell screen is smaller and lower res. than the N800, and it is very noticeable. Those extra 180 pixels are substantial. The N800 screen is far nicer for watching a video than the Dell screen.

There was a quick button press on the Dell for voice memo, it was ergonomically superior to the N800, but with Meamo recorder, voice memos can be made on the Nokia device also. It isn't as instantaneous as on the Dell because you have to launch the app. via the touch screen on the N800, but it works. Also, you have to do a one time install of Maemo recorder (the Dell had it native). I don't see this a s a big deal. In fact, there are many things the Dell comes with standard that you need to add to the N800 after you buy it. That is part of the fun...picking and choosing what you want your N800 to have installed on it. The Windows Mobile is a huge trash barrel of apps. many of which I don't like or don't want to waste my storage with.

Used X51Vs typically sell on eBay for over $300. My N800 was brand new from Buy.com for $229 (less than that now) and the N800 is not a discontinued device like the Dell PPCs.

Battery life of the N800 far exceeds that of the Dell even if you throttle down the Dell cpu to 400mhz (which was easy to do with the unit thru the OS). If you leave the Intel CPU running at 624mhz ( as I often chose to do ) you need to have multiple batteries to get thru the day, or stay tethered to a charger a large percent of the day.

All tablets have 128MB of ram compared to the 32MB you claimed. Therefore your boast about 64MB of ram is nothing. Also bear in mind you can add 128MB as a swap partition giving you a total of 256MB of temp memory.

There are NO 32GB compact flash cards on the market. The biggest is currently 16GB, same as full sized SD cards. Both support FAT32 @ 32GB, but it just isn't out yet. Even 16GB cards for both are pretty expensive.

The N800 is the better machine in most regards, and it will only get better in the months ahead. The Dell peaked a couple years ago, was buggy then and now, it will not improve at all. The Dells are very much on the downslope.

The N800 is the better choice today if one were to have to choose between the X51V and the Nokia in my opinion.

Dell stopped making pocket pc's some time ago. Dell is selling the Nokia N800 on the Dell website today.

M5