Re: What do you use your N810 for? And what apps?
 

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.

Re: What do you use your N810 for? And what apps?
 

haha. no. shhh.

Re: What do you use your N810 for? And what apps?
 

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

Re: What do you use your N810 for? And what apps?
 

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.

Re: What do you use your N810 for? And what apps?
 

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.

Re: What do you use your N810 for? And what apps?
 

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.

Re: What do you use your N810 for? And what apps?
 

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