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Wow. Well I guess I must be lucky, because mine lasted 8 hours. I bought my nokia brand new too. So perhaps yours was a dud? I could watch movies for 8 hours no problem. usually it was just over or just under 8 hours. I always brought my charger to plug it in after the 8 hour period was up. I kept the screen display at around 50% brightness. It could also be due to the fact you were streaming youtube videos. And mine was from the card. But I always had wifi on and was on pidgin in IRC, AIM, etc. Usually browsed here and there as well.

I wouldn't get a nokia battery either. I'm shooting for the mugen (sp?) when i get the n810.

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haha. no. shhh.

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Thank you for not mentioning any British comedies by name. We saw what happened the last time you did that... :D

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I kind of agree with you.
I got my N810, with three batteries (which look chinese to me, and came with a chinese battery charger--pending AC Adapter), and I get about 8 hours of normal/heavy use out of them. Light use, such as menial browsing and some chatting, or just some music, I'm lasting well on into the next day before I have ot swap batteries. I have enough time ot charge both other batteries from empty to full before I need to change it, unless I'm running WIFI and GPS at the same time, and downloading tons of maps.
I've pretty much replaced my laptop with my N810 completely, aside from some flash games that I just can't play on the N810.

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Maemo Mapper for photo hikes http://stalktheland.blogspot.com/

Haven't actually used the tablet on a trip yet, but it's a big reason why I got it! And MP3 player replacement.

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Maemo Mapper works great for backcountry hikes, too... I use an N800 and a bluetooth GPS unit, but the N810 should do the job too, without the multiple pieces...

(gratuitous photo reposts ;) )

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3186/...3c39dc15_m.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3099/...be051504_m.jpg

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qole, where do you download the topography maps?
They do seem good for hiking.

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Here's my original post, and the first post of the thread has the link to Terraserver.

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I liked the idea of having internet access on a small portable device with a screen much better than my phone. But I don't use it for that much - wifi is not always available and I can't get bluetooth tethering to work.

I may sign up for Clear wimax and get the wifi adapter, that will get me to use my N810 much more that I do now.

Maemo Mapper is a great program but I find it less useful than a dedicated GPS unit.

Currently, I'm mostly using it with Bluemaemo as a bluetooth keyboard/mouse for my Mac mini hooked to a TV.

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I know it's an almost dead thread, but here's my list.

• Surfing / reading e-mail while in the same room as the family
• Podcasts (Canola)
• Listening to music at work (Canola)
• Listening to e-books from Librivox (Ivanhoe is really long)
• Responding to IM's from my wife (built-in Chat)
• Portable photo album (Canola)
• Navigation while driving / rallying (Maemo Mapper, Mapper, & RoadMap -- I really like Maemo Mapper's APRS support)
• Geocaching (GPXView)
• Killing time by playing in waiting rooms or boring meetings (but never at work ;-) )
• Navigating new subway systems when travelling (Garnet VM + Metro)
• Shopping Lists (Garnet VM + Handy Shopper)
• PIM (GPE Calendar, MaemoPad -- still miss Datebk5 on my old Clie)
• "Fixing" problems on the home linux boxes (SSH to the rescue!)
• Check the weather (OMWeather)
• Free Phone calls (Dial Central, Google Voice, Gizmo 5)

Here's a few things I would like to be able to do, but haven't gotten a solution I really like for yet:

• Watch/Listen to media on my MythTV box. Canola gets almost there, but I am recording my MPEG2 video at too high a bitrate or wrong resolution for the internal player or mplayer to handle smoothly.
• A simple, big, clock with 1 alarm. I need to see it without my glasses from 4 feet away, and it needs to wake me up. I'm part way there with a pyGtk app I am writing...

I've carried an internet capable PDA for 6+ years (a Clie TJ-37). I bought an n810 when the prices dropped back in March/April because of what it could do. One of the biggest selling points was Garnet VM, because there were a lot of Palm apps I thought I couldn't live without. (Now I know I can.... at least some of them.)

- John

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jwerneny:

Check out knots2 (streaming video transcoder) and flipclock (full screen alarm clock) for possible solutions to your wishlist items. They're both open source and the devs hang out on the forums, so if you don't like the apps, ask for what you want, you might just get it.

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[*]Watch/Listen to media on my MythTV box. Canola gets almost there, but I am recording my MPEG2 video at too high a bitrate or wrong resolution for the internal player or mplayer to handle smoothly.

I use Jaffa's mediaserv for my myth recordings and videos. I have a single top level folder with the recordings and video folders symlinked in.

Canola does not really like the RSS feeds though, so for me the optimum was the microb-mplayer plugin, which launches mplayer playing the video directly from the link on the mediaserv web page, and transcodes on the fly. Upnp from Myth seems to be very hit and miss regardless of what client you use. I have the rss feed from mediaser set to show the last 15 recordings to save loading and scrolling though all the recordings.

Videocenter works really well as a frontend for mediaserv as well, and will launch mplayer with a bit of coaxing.

Don't forget that there is a port of mythfrontend for the tablets, although your media will need to be transcoded down first, and there are no plugins compiled.

Second Qole's suggestion about flipclock as well. very nice little app.

Gaz

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Just out of curiosity, did Knots 2 fail you then? It should support MythTV recordings.

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(speaking of the devs hanging around the forums... Hi ukki! :D)

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Not tried it to be honest - I have had mediaserv running almost since Jaffa released it, and it's always worked great for me. Just offering alternatives and what I know works well. Apologies if I inadvertantely dissed Knots - not intentional!

I'm intending to rebuild the myth box shortly (latest version of knoppmyth to go on) and may give knots a go then,

Don't use mediaserv that much these days as my N800 battery cannot cope with the decent caning that an hour or two of video gives it (must order a mugen!), and I have to sit next to a power socket, then I may as well use the laptop and save my eyes, although sometimes it's nice to leave the video on the NIT, whilst on the net on the Tosh

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Fair enough, I just feared it didn't work. If mediaserv works, don't fix it.

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knots2 and mediaserv look like they will work once I get around to upgrading the master backend from a 750 MHz Athlon. It handles the 4 PVR-150s without even breaking a sweat. I'm planning to replace it with a 2.6 MHz machine soon so I can transcode on the fly, but trying to do it now on the backend is hopeless. The family web/file-server is also out as it is only a 400 MHz machine. I think it has been reboot 2 times in the last 5 years, and thats just because of power outages.

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Okay, here's a post-newbie list of apps, after having used the N810 for a while in different situations.

In no particular order:

* Speedometer, because the speedometer is broken in my van and I'm too lazy to fix it.

* Carman, with a bluetooth OBD2 dongle, just in case. I don't bother with much of the other Carman functionality. Yeah, I fix cars for fun.

* Canola, to listen to podcasts (though the last-to-first order is annoying), the occasional bout of music, and recently, I'm using it to show off some pictures. I've watched movies, but it doesn't really interest me. I do use an audio to FM transmitter in my workshop (metal, wood, and automotive), so I can listen to podcasts while puttering. I like that. I've even got a set of FM radio ear defenders so I can keep up with the story while doing noisy things.

* Flipclock is now my bedside alarm clock.

* MaemoMapper got me around Japan on a rail pass, though I would have preferred a vector-based map-set that I could have downloaded all at once. I wound up in too many places without having detailed maps, and hanging around out on the street poaching wifi gets old really fast. I've tried/got-installed several vector-based mapping apps, but they're just not quite there yet. I remain hopeful as something vector and route-able but as polished as MaemoMapper would really complete the N810.

* Qicknotes, is awesome.

* OmWeather, for here and Japan.

* Advanced Backlight, or whatever that app that combines the brightness and audio icons together.

* Gizmo, because Skype couldn't do dialtones for calling trees (you know, press 1 to hear your messages). I used it to check my cellphone messages while I was in Japan. Cost me all of 2cents per call.

* I use the built-in Email client pointing to my Gmail account. It works well enough to check for mail occasionally, and reply once in a while.

* Numpty Physics is about the only game I bother with, though I've tried a bunch.

* Tides and Currents, because I kayak.

* mCalendar, synced to my google calendar.

* FullRecall, to learn Japanese (I managed to get that up and running on the plane back from Japan). I'm looking to replace this as soon as something FOSS comes out.

* Mamemopad+, for the occasional sketch or note, usually about some N810 config that I'm trying to remember.

* FBReader, though I'm not too partial to reading off such a tiny screen. I'm hoping I can convert some of the PDFs I have into text and run them through FBReader in a larger font. The problem with PDFs is that you can only zoom in so far before the line doesn't fit on the screen. Scrolling left-right-let-right to read just isn't going to happen for anything long.

* Notecase, because I have a home web server that I keep encrypted documents on.

* I've got StarDict and several reference books installed but almost never use them.

* I've started using Kerez to start some Perl scripts I wrote - though coding directly on the N810 is annoying, to say the least. I'm going to have to remap some keys to get the the curly-brackets, which are rather important in Perl.

* I've started using Geany too, for above.


So, while I've lots of applications installed, the ones above are the reason I carry the N810 around. At this point, I'd really miss it if I didn't have it with me.

While traveling in Japan, my wife carried her laptop while I had the N810. The problems I ran into included hotels without wifi (where I shared the laptop connection), and getting photos out of my camera. Other than that, I didn't need the laptop.

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Wow, nice, Where are you in that picture? It looks like a great place to hike.

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did you find the nokia map for japan lacking? the one for germany worked great for me.

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@fixerdave,
In the future you may want to look into either http://www.remotefactory.com/cravesone.html or http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.27001 for uploading pictures from your camera (provided the camera uses SD cards). If it's a DSLR and uses CF, a power injector plus compact flash=>usb (plus USB otg calbe) should do the trick. USB y-cable + usb=>AC adapter (of proper region) works in a pinch for power injection.

As far as wired goes. You can combine a USB otg cable + Linksys USB100M and install a couple packages and that's it. http://wiki.maemo.org/Networking_(Diablo) (work in progress)

@wesgreen
I learned the hard way, [Navicore/Wayfinder] Map uses vector maps (download all at once) while Maemo Mapper uses raster maps which downloads tiles a few at time. Vector maps are general maps, mostly just street names, green areas for parks, etc. Raster maps are/can be satellite views showing buildings, etc.

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You mean Wayfinder? There was nothing for Japan in that at all, nothing that I could find anyway. So, no vector backup. I had to depend entirely on MaemoMapper. If I were to go back next week, I'd take the time to set up Gosmore or something, anything, just for those times when you don't end up where you planned, which is how I like traveling.

Actually, after having cached a bunch of Google street maps before going, and having that mysteriously break the DAY AFTER I got there (grrr), I switched to VEstreet and was blown away by how good they were. They go right down to showing the shapes of pretty well all buildings and appear to be the same as everyone in Japan uses on their in-car navigation unit, when they're not watching TV that is... while driving - but that's another story.

With enough caching, the raster map tiles look great. But, vector does have it's advantages.

David...

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Interesting, though I'm not too keen on making the N810 any bigger or heavier than it is already. It's already on the outside edge of "carry everywhere," at least on my scale.

I did look for a bluetooth capable camera, but I wasn't impressed with the camera side of what was out there. I ended up buying a low-light point and shoot with SD cards. Of course, they've now announced some new bluetooth capable cameras (doesn't it always work that way?). I've thought of just using a couple of USB cables with an adapter while putting the N810 into USB host mode, and will probably do just that on the next trip.

Another option I'm exploring, unsuccessfully so far, is locating a bluetooth SD card reader. I think that would be great, having some battery-operated thingy in one pocket that can run an SD card and then make the files on it available to the N810, or any other bluetooth device. Maybe something that had a big whack of storage space on it's own too. It would be an external tethered storage space, that I could stuff the Camera's SD card in without having to muck up the N810. I've found lots of bluetooth card readers, but they are USB-attached to a computer and are both a card reader and a bluetooth dongle. Not what I want.

Sigh, maybe someday.

But, thanks for the link to the SD add-on for the N810... it's something to consider.

David...

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That is so much true! I used to stay weekend nights using my laptop at the dinner table while my gilfriend was at the couch watching tv. Now I can sit on the couch too, and read talk.maemo.org while I pretend to watch tv!

But that means I have to be extra careful with the pr0n, of course. :D

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You might also consider an Eyefi. The issue with that is it's supposed to connect to a (pre-configured) router. But perhaps if you create an adhoc connection with the N810 (devel_adhoc or create another) then it might work. I don't have one, so I couldn't tell you. Also this thread about ghetto eyefi solution: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=13868 (note that is NOT what you want, just thought it was interesting while I was on the topic of the eyefi). Too bad such a thing isn't available in a mini-sd or micro-sd form factor or for that matter a bluetooth version.

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SETUP: Nokia n810
Samsung Omnia (vz) with cooked rom running wm6.5
Unlimited data with unlimited messaging


N810 PAIRED WITH SAMSUNG OMNIA (Or other phone with Data plan and wifi)
1. WmWifiRouter on omnia (constant internet for Tablet) ((( A MUST!!! )))
2. Do not have to worry about calling providers lines when using SKYPE on the n810
3. Skype on the n810 paired with a bluetooth headset is awesome
4. Streaming music galore (/Last.FM / Rhapsody/ Shoutcast/) To name only a few
5. Hacks exist to enable to n810 to have stereo sound in bluetooth
6. Real Web browsing with flash ensures that the visited web page will work as intended
7. Best Pocket YouTube Experience ever (With the right YouTube App)
8. Install a traditional OS on your SDHC card (Debian/Ubuntu)
Maybe someting in between (Mer/Android)
Or maybe a "cooked" Diablo ROM, or even a downgrade.

BLACK HAT DREAM (A version of Debian, in your pocket)
1. Can program in linux
2. Excellent for War(Driving/Walking)
3. Can crack WEP and WPK Signals (use at your own risk)
4. Can also spy and cause general mayhem for other wireless signals (use at own risk)
5. Can scan bluetooth signals and attempt to crack them.Programs can automate the process. Log could be sent to a smartphone which could hold additional apps. (use at your own risk)

HARDWARE THOUGHTS
1. Internet tablet could become a 2+32+64 (98GB) USB Drive (Slave Mode)
2. Keyboard, Mouse, Monitor, and a myraid of other usb devices are supported
(Although tricky to get working sometimes) (Master Mode)
3. GPS - The Omnias GPS can be unlocked. I use Garmin XT when Driving and Google maps for transit. I use the N810's GPS when hiking, etc.

OTHERS
1. An accelerometer exists so one can view ebooks/web/etc in portrait mode (search for it)
2. Games are lacking in graphics, but the strategy games are its strength
3. can run Palm OS in a virtual machine
4. Can run many older game consoles on a virtual machine
5. Can communicate with a computer via VNC as an example
5. Claws mail with PGP support is great
6. Don't have to worry about viruses
7. No monthly plan required
8. Almost all the programs are FREE and EASY to get

I run my nice looking action games on my Omnia.
Wesnoth, Chess, etc, on my N810.

I find that a windowz ppc that has unlimited data and messaging, that is able to share everything, (including its internet) with a Linux Box that I can put in my pocket, to be a very strong combination.

Have yet to figure out how to flash or use activesync with this combination, but I am optimistic.

CONCLUSION
Yes, with a ppc, an n810, and an occasional trip to use a pc, this setup does everything for me.
It can go with me everywhere and the only internet I need is my own and I only pay for one.
Freedom is good! Thank you Nokia!
And all the hackers out there too!

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Man you are getting your money's worth from your N810, nice to see!

I travel for a living, alot, aboard. My N810 keep me connected to home for pennies via Google Voice, Sipgate, and Boingo Mobile. I can make calls, sms, email, receive calls and text messaging for pennies a day.

Internet radio provides music (N810 speakers are not bad) or news while I am in the hotels. Or I stream my music or movies from home via Gnump3d on my home linux box. At home in the Washington DC area I use the WiMax network with my N810. I could go on about the different tasks my N810 can handle.

Alot of this is possible due to the Open source and linux community, THANK YOU!!!

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NITs make people happy as i see, i´m happy too.