Love my 770, should I try 800 or 810?
 

Hi all,

I've only had my 770 for a few months now, but I love it. I don't use it for much other than surfing the web, checking email, and probably most importantly reading ebooks using fbreader. It works great for these purposes.

However, it's not PERFECT. The unit is a bit slow to boot up, it crashes quite often for no apparent reason, and the battery life is good, but could be improved.

Would upgrading to an 800 or 810 be a marked improvement for me? Or are the features which they offer simply overkill and more than what I use my 770 for?

Thanks for your thoughts,
Oy.

Re: Love my 770, should I try 800 or 810?
 

Well I also own a 770 and one of the best features of it, the hard case, is not aviable for either the n800 or n810, but you can get past that.
Here is a list of what I think is important about them both.

n800:
brighter screen
faster
2 full size SD cards 32Gb+ storage

n810:
even brighter screen than n800
special screen that can be seen better in the sun
equally fast as n800
1 micro SD slot 16Gb+
2 Gb internal stroage included
GPS chip and maps (routing software extra)
slide out keyboard

I love the 770 hard case, I would buy one for my n800 if they made one.
If you don't need all the extras of the n810 you can get a used/refurb n800 for cheep.

Hope this helps.

Re: Love my 770, should I try 800 or 810?
 

As someone who bought a 770, a 800 and 810. I would say 810. I loved my 770 and my 800, but I use that keyboard everyday. When I use my 800 now, it drives me crazy, I keep wanting to slide out the keyboard.

I have a bt keyboard too, but I love my 810. I can't wait to see whats next :D:D:D:D

Re: Love my 770, should I try 800 or 810?
 

Thanks for the info, comrades. Maybe I'll look into the 810s now. I've been researching other possible eBook readers, and so far none have been able to compete with my 770. The 810 might just close the competition down. ;)

Re: Love my 770, should I try 800 or 810?
 

The "1 micro SD slot 16Gb+" is not yet quite true. The biggest micro sdhc card I have seen is 8gb. If you buy that you will have 10gb: 8 gb from the card and 2 gb from the internal flash. Hopefully we will see 16gb soon though!

Re: Love my 770, should I try 800 or 810?
 

Well, actually, "1 micro SD slot 16Gb+" is quite true—2GB MicroSD cards are all over the place! :D

/obfuscation

Re: Love my 770, should I try 800 or 810?
 

If money was no issue I would probably own an N810. But it is an issue for alot of us.

Re: Love my 770, should I try 800 or 810?
 

Or wait out for the next hardware bump which should be pretty significant.

Re: Love my 770, should I try 800 or 810?
 

Loved my 770.... Got an 810 and use it WAAAYYYY more than I ever used the 770.. The built in keyboard is worth it. I bought the 810 at full price when it was first released and still believe it is worth every penny!!!

Re: Love my 770, should I try 800 or 810?
 

The N800 will give you more bang for the buck no matter how you look at it.

I'm assuming that you intend to keep it as long as you have kept the 770. Also assuming you bought the 770 new and and will buy the N800 used.

A used N810 is still commanding top dollar relative to the cost of a used N800. Sure the N800 has less functions than the N810 but it has more capacity.

Unless you use the stylus more than your finger for input, or you can only use GPS to determine your location. You would pro'ly be better off with a stand alone, BT keyboard and GPS receiver anyway.

IMHO, both the N tablets are very capable of handling anything you've trained or require the 770 to do, and then some. The N810 can do some of those things easier but, the N800 can potentially do more of those things over time.

... and during that time the N800 has less moving parts. :)

Re: Love my 770, should I try 800 or 810?
 

In short...

YES !

I gave up buying a 770 specifically to wait for n800.

OTOH if you are happy right now and the 770 does everything you want it to do there's no reason to spend now.

Re: Love my 770, should I try 800 or 810?
 

the decision between 800 and 810 depends on what you want from it. I went for an 800 as I wanted as much local storage for music as I could get (2x16GB), and in-car navigation. I have an external bluetooth GPS, which I can also use with my phone and Nokia sports tracker leaving my tablet at home so that works better for me than a built in GPS, and I have a bluetooth kbd for those occasions I need to do some serious typing.
I reckon one thing is certain though once you get one, your 770 will start gathering dust. I pick mine up occasionally and quickly drop it again as I get frustrated with it's slowness and instabilty compared to my N800

Re: Love my 770, should I try 800 or 810?
 

After using 770 for about 7 months in April after saving some cash by building and selling some computers i got a Nokia n810 well worth the price i paid just over £200. The 2gb space is enough for me, keyboard is soo good. One thing which i would recommend you do if you get a 8xx. Is install rotation support

Re: Love my 770, should I try 800 or 810?
 

Do you use OS2006 and connect to WLAN networks? If yes, you must have this fix installed: http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=11824

Re: Love my 770, should I try 800 or 810?
 

I just pulled the trigger and bought a Nokia N800 from tigerdirect.com for $219 + shipping. I was kind of kicking myself because I thought I missed a chance to it, as the N800 seemed to have disappear from retail outlets the last couple of month.

I've had a Nokia 770 since last July and have been a little annoyed at times at the slow boot up, the random browser crashes, and the limited memory. For the $140 price I paid for it last year, I'm still very pleased with the device.

I am looking forward to OS2008, maps support, the faster processor and (hopefully) a very stable environment.

OT: BTW, I think I will try the memory corruption/WiFi fix for the 770, but can someone point me to where I can get instructions on installing this patch. I don't have any Linux experience (well, other than Unix stuff long, long ago).

EDIT: I feel kind of silly. I just took another look at the post regarding the memory corruption fix. I didn't know that .deb was an application extension. So I transfered the file to my 770 and just started the application. The fix installation couldn't be simpler. Haven't had a chance to play with the device to see if stability is improved.