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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Member since:2005-06-29
The point is:
you're talking about buying (and carrying) a charger just for N770/N800... I don't need that. I should not need that as I already have standard USB mini cable with me all the time and most of the time a AC to USB converter. It works with all my devices for charging when a need it, so I didn't need to carry (and buy) anything else IF N800 supported charging via USB port.
My other portable devices do that. N800 should do it too. Why would I need anything else than a single cable and a single AC to USB converter to charge ALL my portable devices on the road?
...of course we can still charge all our devices with proprietary AC adapter at home... all 30 of them... (count wireless mouse, camera, cellphone, plus the AC adapter for your printer, let me count the scanner... and let's not forget the other members of the family and their cellphones and devices... wow!)
About the firmware updating it's no excuse. Firmware flash on Nokia it outdated too. Why no just upload the new firmware file to the "FIRMWARE" folder on the device via USB MSC and them restart the device like all cautious portable device does (of course they require a battery level of X%, but it's no problem)?
My iAudio X5 (USB MSC harddrive audio player) does like that and its design has some years of baggage... Of course this method doesn't require proprietary software to update the device... not rocket science either.
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2006-01-02
So you're *nitpicking* over the facts that a. a third party usb charger plugs into the power receptacle and not usb port (even though you can charge it with your laptop), and b. it doesn't come with a free one in addition to a wall charger (unlike every mobile device out there, most of which come with a wall charger and let the user pick a 3rd party accessory to charge via usb, car lighter or other means). Even if USB charging was there, it is likely a compact cable like a retractable one would not be supplied. So you have to purchase an accessory *regardless* of the physical port that is used.
I'm not disagreeing with you, I would love to have USB charging out the box as well, but this is how it is. It is cheap and inexpensive to pick up a USB charger for the device that is not bulky. I charge my 770 and 800 via my laptop all the time.
There is possibly another reason why the power is on a separate port, and that has to do with flashing the device with a new image (powered off device -> non-powered usb connection -> hotkey+power on or power cable connection -> flash). And this pretty much carries over Nokia's entire product line.