fisherdmin | # 71 | 2010-06-24, 00:19 | Report

I WANT to love my N800 like those of you who have posted. My main complaint is one of performance while browsing and with video playback. Are there any tips or techniques to tune the device? I have heard that several of you use Skype - the thoughts of using Skype on my N800 make me shake my head - there is no way my unit could handle the video for that. Am i doing something wrong?

David

Den in USA | # 72 | 2010-06-24, 00:40 | Report

All on my video I play locally off the internal SD memory. Even my favorite YouTube videos are saved to my memory. And yes, I use Skype every day . . . . but it does not support video. When I was up in Canada, there were areas were I had no cell phone reception. I connected my N800 to the motel's WiFi and called (voice) the phones of my friends and relatives. It does of course cost a few cents per minute. However, my calls to any computer is totally free.

Snoshrk | # 73 | 2010-06-24, 10:33 | Report

Web Browsing?: which browser? Tear is pretty fast for me...

Video: Transcoding is your friend. Playback is OK to good depending on the amount of action in the scene...my goto standard is the foyer scene in The Matrix.

avel | # 74 | 2010-07-04, 17:48 | Report

fisherdmin: I suggest that you give Opera 10 Mobile for maemo a try.

For me, it gave new life to my N800. I actually use it for browsing! Opera Mobile is fast compared to Tear, which was already ages ahead the default browser.

Addison | # 75 | 2010-07-06, 00:28 | Report

Does it still peg the CPU at 100%?

46jimbo | # 76 | 2010-07-08, 13:26 | Report

In Opera, is there a 'Fit view to width' option as there is in the default browser?

I read news sites formatted for mobile devices like www.thestar.com/iphone . With Opera, when I increase the font size, I have to scroll all over the place to read an article. It doesn't reformat to match my screen width.

In the default browser, everything fits perfectly on the screen, no matter which level of magnification I use. Reading longer articles is a breeze on the default browser.

fisherdmin | # 77 | 2010-07-10, 20:45 | Report

Thanks to all who have replied. Tear didn't work for me (slower than the browser I am currently using) and now that I know that the skype connection is for voice only, I am much more content with my N800.

tso | # 78 | 2010-07-10, 22:26 | Report

supposedly opera do reflow. But only for text areas, not the whole page. At least not in opera mobile.

GeraldKo | # 79 | 2010-07-11, 05:52 | Report

I haven't tried Opera Mobile yet. But as a replacement for Fit View to Width, I find, when using Tear, that Readability usually does the trick very well. (If not familiar, Google Readability generally; for making it work on a NIT, Google it for this forum.

iontruo2 | # 80 | 2010-08-31, 17:37 | Report

Gotta chime in! I'm still loving my N800. I recently bought an iphone 3gs16g for phone use and PIM and it is just fine, but I feel its like a Cadillac and my N800 is a Jaguar.
Doing some painting and handy man work, and I always have my N800 to scan for an open Wifi neighbor and then stream music while I work at various client's homes. Movies and media are just fine and the bigger screen is unbeatable with stand and stereo speakers. Double SD and no damn keyboard! I love it!
My favorite pastime is saving Utube videos and ripping dvd's from the local Library and transferring to tablet. free free free.

So much 1st class functionality still there and hardly feeling 'that' out of date. Heck most are still catching up to it.

Just my positive two cents worth and a shout out to all the die-hard N800 friends.