I've been an owner of the 770. I've found the fact that the device turns into the standby mode when the alu cover is closed very nice.

Now, today, the 810 is delivered. And I would like to know if there is a way to trigger the standby-mode in a similar way. When I put the device into the soft cover, the display turns off after a while and the LED begins to flash from time to time. Is this the energy-saving standby mode?

Thanks in advance!

The hard cover and standby mode were two things that the 770 had right. Never should have gone away from those. I've gotten used to leaving my 810 on and connected. it still gets a couple of days on the battery as long as I dont do too much media / rhapsody / voip. having it connect to saved nets and get my mail and log me into IM / SIP accounts automatically is pretty cool.

Still should be a standby mode and a hard case / cover available though. Did anybody ever figure out how the 770 knew when you put the cover on?

I believe there was a magnet on the hard cover, similar to the sensing of the battery cover on N800. (I don't have a 770, just what I had heard.)

The N810, I'm pretty sure, has no case detection. The screen going off and light flashing is the same the N800 does. That means it got bored and decided to turn the screen off. (OK, not bored, it's the screen timeout.) I'm pretty sure this doesn't save power any other ways. I think you can manually set a network timeout, which operates independently. But I'd rather mine stays connected as long as WiFi is present.

One feature of the N800, soft-off mode, is said to be like the 770's case-on sleep. I'm not sure how like. You can make this manually activatable by push-holding power button. Edit /etc/mce/mce.ini, I think, to enable this. But from what I heard, that doesn't work in OS2008 (yet). So no good on N810s.