Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 6th Jan 2007 21:47 UTC
Nokia has quietly begun delivering an upgrade to its Linux-based 770 Internet Tablet. The Nokia N800 Internet Tablet is available now from at least two retail stores in the U.S., priced at $399.99, CompUSA's Chicago "superstore" has confirmed. The device features GTalk and a VGA video-call camera via WiFi.
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2005-07-13
And it's awesome. I guess that's why CompUSA gave me a $100 rebate on it.
This thing has literally saved my commute (about 2 hours a day). Using 770encode I can watch movies on it, I can play MP3s on it, using pdfcrop (from pdflatex utilities) I can comfortably read PDF ebooks on it, and using FBReader I can read plain text/HTML/plucker e-books on it.
My office is next door to a library with public wifi, so I can also get online quite leisurely. Browsing the web is a joy.
The complaints of the device being slow/underpowered are I guess justified, but it's fast enough for these limited tasks. I think too many people compare these devices with PDAs (like Palm V or Blackberry) when they should really be comparing them with laptops. It may be slower than my laptop, but it's also about one tenth its size, still has a high resolution screen, a full Linux operating system, and a powerful web browser. Hey, that seems good to me. So what if it takes 10 seconds to load up a PDF, rather than half a second? At least I _can_ load a PDF up in a device the size of my palm.