Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 25th Jan 2007 00:04 UTC
PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless Our Nokia friends were very generous to send us over their newest Internet Tablet, the N800, for a review. Read more below about our experience with this Linux-based mobile gem.
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Please make it a decent PMP
by olivier on Wed 24th Jan 2007 20:34 UTC
olivier
Member since:
2005-07-06

The N770 was darn tempting but the weak processor always held me back from diving in.
The N800 seems to be a little more modern on that side, I just hope somebody from Nokia's payroll would take a week to work on porting MPlayer to the platform and make it use the CPU's DSP. I would be all over this in a sec if it could play 640*480 Divx.
I already have a PocketPc that I only use now for GPS navigation. nokia please make good use of your hardware and have TomTom or Route66 port some commercial GPS software to yoru platform, I will pay for my copy.
And no Maemo Mapper is definitely not the kind of thing I can use everyday to drive around.

Anybody know if Gnumeric is on its way to this platform?

RE: Please make it a decent PMP
by dagw on Wed 24th Jan 2007 20:52 in reply to "Please make it a decent PMP"
dagw Member since:
2005-07-06

Nokia sell their own GPS software for the N800, called the nokia navigation kit. According to arstechnica "The interface was very impressive, comparable with standalone GPS devices like the Garmin Nuvi 660". Although they didn't test it extensivly.

More info here
http://www.europe.nokia.com/accessorieslink?s=N800NavigationKit

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fldude99 Member since:
2007-01-27

The Navicore kit will be available in March 07 in North America according the press release on their website.

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