Nokia N810

"These are hard to find in Canada; luckily I have a sister in Florida.

I find the best use for the n810 is travelling or when you're on vacation. Assuming you have a wireless internet connection you can check email, chat, browse internet, make phone calls via Skype, listen to music, watch videos, play games, use GPS, or have list of contacts while your out of town or travelling.

To me it came down the iPod touch or n810. n810 has a ton of free applications from the open source community but sometimes they are a bit buggy. Apple has much larger base of applications but at a price.

Other things I've noticed about n810.

It doesn't come with great PIM applications (to-do, calendar/schedule, etc). This can be helped with addition of 3rd party applications.

It's heavy for its size. Still it's about the perfect size for what I was looking for and I'm still able to fit it in my pocket.

For movie playback you really need to add 3rd party media player and play around the get the perfect size, bitrate, codec for movie playback. Check around the message boards for peoples results.

GPS is initially slow to initialize & location satellites. Once it finds them it works great. I threw the n810 in the top of my backpack during a 1 1/2 hike through forest and it kept an accurate track line (using maemomapper application).

Bluetooth works. I used it a couple times to transfer photos from LG Dare to n810 and then email them.

I've found the video camera to be virtually useless. I did see a video online of someone using it for chat but it's not available through Skype. You can only use it to take pictures of yourself otherwise your blindly pointing it in a general direction and clicking an onscreen button.

Overall I'm very satisfied with this product. I already knew most of its capabilities & drawbacks when I bought it so I can't really be disappointed on its lack of 3G. A major reason I bought this was so I could access email & browse the internet without an expensive data plan. It's not hard to find free WiFi hotspots at cafes or if you're in a pinch some other open WiFi connection. I also really like the open source community aspect of the Nokia n810."

"I don't think this needs GSM capabilities, like the HTC Advantage, I feel it is far too big to replace a typical mobile phone. And, if you're carrying a mobile phone with you anyway then why not tether the 3G capabilities to this device via Bluetooth and you have a 3G connection for the device (how about the the SE W880i?).

I also think that adding more wireless protocols/receivers to this would decrease the battery life needlessly. I don't mind if the device I use to browse the web dies but the device which I receive calls on cannot die (due to a flat battery). If they do add GSM support there will have to be a second physical battery.

I will most likely get one, not to replace a mobile phone, but to replace a Laptop (most of what I use a laptop for is editing Google Docs, checking RSS feeds/podcasts and checking my mail)."

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I finally got my hands on one of these, and wrote about it on my blog.

One of the biggest problems I see with it is the lack of RAM, or excessive amounts of shiney UI elements. Flashy does not equal good, it just equals flashy.

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