Country: US
Purchased From: Amazon Warehouse (open box)
Purchase/Arrival Date: June 24
Likes: Open source, supported protocols
Dislikes: UI (isn't perfect ;), keyboard
Favorite Apps: Kagu, Maemo Mapper
I researched this device a lot before purchasing (even tried out the SDK) and it's pretty much exactly what I expected. On the first day, I got root access, NFS, ssh, media, wifi and even bluetooth PAN working.
Diablo was released the next day so I upgraded. At this point, it's back to that state except bluetooth PAN :(. GPS was poor at first but I found on the forum that maemo mapper works if you use the bluetooth option and it is working great now.
I plan on using this in my car so I'm looking forward to setting up media, GPS and phone to work smoothly together. Maybe I'll even get a chance to play around with integrating all of them (after I find out what works).
Hoping to find a nice, compact USB OTG adapter as well. It'd be awesome to use a USB flash drive or possibly charge my phone while using 3G.
Country: USA (Southern NJ)
Purchased From: Dell
Purchase/Arrival Date: 08-20-08
Likes: size, audio quality, versatility, battery life
Dislikes: speed, nearly impossible to get my MiniSD adapter out
Favorite Apps: Browser, various other little stuff like staus bar refinements and such.
Internet Radio is great.
I like how I have a slight learning curve when it comes to getting more involved with it technically as well.
For me tinkering under the hood is as much fun as using it outright.
Country: US
Purchased From: Amazon
Purchase/Arrival Date: Aug 1
Likes: (it's much better than the touch)
screen - makes the touch look silly
Linux - makes porting apps possible
sliding keyboard - I can type on it, unlike the touch
speakers - I hate headphones
stand, removable storage - nice
good battery life
Dislikes:
scroll pad should scroll in browser with single clicks
miniSD - would rather micro or standard
powercord location - hard to type when plugged in
weight - a bit on the heavy side
back gets warm with heavy usage
Favorite Apps:
vnc, IM, blocks (I still like tetris), mcalendar
I don't own one yet, but I ordered an n810 earlier today, and it should arrive soon. The reason I did was that a friend from college and his wife visited over the weekend. My friend's wife had an n810 and let me look at it for half an hour or so. I was previously torn between an ipod Touch and an n810, and had almost decided to get an ipod Touch after playing with it in an Apple store.
However, the screen on the n810 was incredible, that alone made the n810 a truly amazing ebook reader, and I love both the browser and the keyboard. All the reports I've heard about the n810 keyboard being difficult to use were clearly made by people with fingers very different from my own. It made the keyboard on my aging Sony Clie look like a piece of ill-made junk. Also, simply the fact that the keyboard was so much easier to use than that screen keyboard on the ipod Touch made the decision for me, the rest was gravy.
Of course, I know nothing about Linux of any flavor, but with luck I'll learn fairly easily.
The Screen (the best I've seen on any mobile device)
The Keyboard
The Browser
Canola
FBReader
GarnetVM (my contacts and memos are now on my n810)
Problems & annoyances:
GPS is slow (but with a-gps, not horribly so)
Linux is still an alien country to me, but one I'd beginning to learn a bit about.
The n810 requires a mixture of touch, stylus, and keyboard to use, and while I don't find that particularly hard, it would be nice if it were a bit more finger friendly.
A caps lock button would be a vast improvement
Also, the wifi is stronger than the one on my laptop, which is very nice indeed.
For caps lock, press the shift button twice before typing. Press Fn twice to lock the keyboard to numbers - this makes the inputting of a series of digits much easier.
For caps lock, press the shift button twice before typing. Press Fn twice to lock the keyboard to numbers - this makes the inputting of a series of digits much easier.
Indeed they do. Many thanks. Your post also reminds me of another thing I love about the n810, and one of the other reasons I choose it over an ipod Touch - ITT. I've been reading this forum for a while as I tried to make up my mind of what device to buy, and I have yet to see another tech-users forum that is quite so smart and helpful.
Likes:
- Larger screen than a phone
- Touchscreen
- Easy to get software for
- Nice mapping apps
- Good browser (supports Flash)
- Open Source OS (Linux)
- Easy file transfer just standard tools like Putty / WinSCP / VNC, etc.
Dislikes:
- No Java
- Strange keyboard layout: digits as SHIFT-Q...P, other character at weird locations and in onscreen keypad you have to switch between digit and letter mode
- In browser sometimes tapping a link does not open it.
- Poor builtin GPS
