Nokia N810 Portable Internet Tablet | Excellent little tool

Nokia N810 Portable Internet Tablet | Great device, tricky to justify

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highly recommended

Excellent little tool

The Nokia N810 internet tablet is an excellent tool for email and web-browsing away from one's desk. A little big for a trouser pocket, it will fit comfortably in a jacket pocket. The wi-fi is incredibly sensitive, picking up and working on networks that Dell laptops can't. The sceen is small but very clear. The keyboard has a good feel to it, and the rocker pad to the left of the keyboard is very effective for navigating a page. The software is reasonably quick to load.

The map is excellent, the GPS could be a little more sensitive, but that isn't really this tool's main purpose, so I don't mind. The camera also is 'only OK', but on a par with most cellphone cameras, and more of an add-on than a serious tool. I haven't tried the VOIP telephone, so I won't comment on that.

Overall, I'm extremely happy with the Nokia N810; it does what I got it for very well.

E.M. Van Court

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Great device, tricky to justify

This is a great device, I use it mainly for web and email around the office, at home, at the gym, and when traveling. For the money it's a pretty good buy, but it's hard to see how it's a device for many customers when there is iPhone and iPod Touch, as only two examples. I have both of them as well and they are great, but I like the Nokia's Linux base which is infinitely extensible and upgradeable. The screen is very good, even outdoors, it's pretty fast, and the web browser seems to handle most sites without major problems.

Very useful when traveling

Small size makes it very useful when traveling. No need to lug a laptop just to check e-mail.

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Good Vision, Sketchy Implementation

The Nokia N810 is a beautiful, well-conceived device. The problem is it doesn't perform as well as one would expect for a device from Nokia.

Here's why I bought the N810: Internet telephony (Skype), internet browsing, GPS location identification, and as a repository of music and a few videos. Going through the list:

Skype: This is a nice clean application for the N810, with good sound and performance. Unfortunately, it doesn't support video conferencing. This is odd, because it has a (very) rudimentary camera that faces the user, which is obviously there for video conferencing. Also, sometimes Skype is not terribly useful, as the little speakers are not loud enough to make the speech intelligible in a loud environment (e.g., coffee house).

Internet browsing: This does work reasonably well, but the scrolling is a bit jumpy. Trying to get streaming video is a bit sketchy as well: a Real video stream which works well on a PC sometime fails to startup in the native video player. Also, in bright places the internet browsing is not a great experience: the screen seems to be a bit dim even at the highest level.

GPS: this is nice, but the GPS chip seems to be a bit weak. It takes quite a bit of time for it to sync, much longer than the small bluetooth GPS unit I have. Again, for use in the car, the problems with the dim screen and quiet speakers is an issue.

Music and Video Repository: This works well enough. Just don't try listening through stereo bluetooth headphones. For whatever inexplicable reason it doesn't support the A2DP profile! For video it is a bit sketchy, as the native app supports very few video standards.

The bottom line: the device is underpowered and from the software perspective, under-engineered. If you have some software experience, you can try to upgrade some of the native apps to some better functioning freeware/shareware. It, though, does do the basic things it advertises, and given its nice form factor, is a good device to have at your fingertips. I'm glad I bought it, but I wish it were just a notch more functional.

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Some good, some bad.

If you're looking for a mobile way to browse the internet from a wifi connection then this device is awesome. It has by far the best portable wifi web browsing I've seen.

If you're looking for a fun, small, portable linux platform to play with, this is a great place for that.

If you're looking for a GPS device, do not buy the n810 for this. The GPS is honestly terrible compared to anything I've ever used. Not only does it truly take 5-10 minutes to get a lock as other reviews say, the resulting nav data is lagged and innacurate. I had read that it took a long time to get a lock, which I could deal with, but not driving down the road the nav showing my position where I was a good 20-30 seconds ago, too late to make that turn now... Inacuracy problems were constant too. Driving down the road and watching the device give your location as going through a lake 500 ft to the side is amusing until you realize how much you just spent on a device with useless gps.

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