I agree, once you get an iPhone or an Ipod Touch the N800 is going to be sitting on a shelf. In comparison it is very slow. Not even close when it comes to apps.
I still use it to watch GBTV and when I'm out of the country it is my Skype phone.
The N800 is the world's greatest alarm clock. Really.
World's greatest FM / Internet Radio alarm clock. Really.
Also, it is a super video player. Encode the video with tablet-encode (or VirtualDub / AVIDemux) to full-screen 400x240 xvid and it totally rocks. You can't tell me that the Storm can compare for video.
If you have (a) kid(s), the tablet's utility as a on-hand video player rises dramatically. Velcro on the back, stick it on the back of the front seat's headrest in the car.
If you can get a Grandcentral number, Dialcentral really is useful. Keep a tablet by the phone for making quick and easy free long distance calls.
Hm, yeah, to an extent I'm feeling sort of the same way.
I love the tablets but found that most of the things I use them for daily are things I could actually do with a smartphone and dispense with the extra device in my pocket; as such, I recently acquired a G1. It definitely does lots of things less well than the tablets -- but not the things I do multiple times a day, necessarily. Until I get service for it in a week or so I'm still doing the two-device routine, though.
At any rate I've pretty much resolved to sell my n810 -- I love it, but since it has more resale value I should part with it, and then retain my N800 for all of the cool stuff these devices can do. Its text entry isn't as good, of course, and it's a little bulkier, but if I'm using either my phone or my computer for text-heavy stuff like email and using it mainly at home, it seems handy to keep around.
I agree, once you get an iPhone or an Ipod Touch the N800 is going to be sitting on a shelf. In comparison it is very slow. Not even close when it comes to apps.
I still use it to watch GBTV and when I'm out of the country it is my Skype phone.
can you please tell how u use to watch gbtv and skype !!!!! i can not use skype while using my gsm phone as internet modem for browsing, any idea ?????????
I agree, once you get an iPhone or an Ipod Touch the N800 is going to be sitting on a shelf. In comparison it is very slow. Not even close when it comes to apps.
I still use it to watch GBTV and when I'm out of the country it is my Skype phone.
I dunno about that. I've toyed with the idea of getting one, but from playing around with my cousin's one there's alot of things that irritate me about it. It's faster but at the sacrifice of things I can already do on the n800. Which would then mean hacking around with it (which I already do with the n800 anyway). Not to mention the storage on the tablet far outweighs the storage on those devices (8, 16, 32) but if I wanted a 32 GB touch or iPhone it would be expensive! Shame it doesn't support SD(HC) cards.
Perhaps when someone hacks full bluetooth support and manages to let me run more then one application at once.
I love my N800, and use it everyday. the only time I put it down is when it needs charging, and when I'm asleep.
Sure it may do things less well than specialist devices with a limited function set, but it does a lot more. It is the IT equivilent of a swiss army knife .
I have a standalone satnav, mp3 player, mp4 player, but the Nokia does that, and does vnc, xterm, video podcast, rss, office apps, internet, video etc., and in one fairly small pocketable box, I cannot fit my garmin, and my Archos in one pocket together, and that is only 2 apps.
A laptop, or netbook, will do the others, but again will not fit in a pocket. If I could get a data-only bluetooth-accessible 3G modem and mobile deal, I could scrap my mobile phone.
IPods and Iphones are nicely designed etc, but you cannot upgrade or swap out the storage. You cannot just drag and drop videos and mp3s to the device, you need to have an application installed on the PC ( or you did until recently)
I have an S60 phone, and the only app I really use on it is sports tracker, just about the rest of the time, my tablet is also there, and does it better on a bigger easier to use screen.
Also, it is a super video player. Encode the video with tablet-encode (or VirtualDub / AVIDemux) to full-screen 400x240 xvid and it totally rocks. You can't tell me that the Storm can compare for video.
I forget how to do the VirtualDub / AVI Demux method.. there's also the n800 video converter.. but the guy who use to publish it changed the name of the program and I forget it's name.
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