good things about update?
 

migt be nice to have a thrad that points out any good things in the new update that you might find that others might miss?

I don't know if it was ther befoe, but now in the browser I always found it hard in full screen mode to get my thumb on the slider or bottom sidebar button to track down a page, now I find that if you put your thumb on the page next to te sidebar and move UP the page scrolls down.

Was this there befoe the update? Either way, pleased with that :)

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Greetings:

Here are some of the things I find work well:

Skype: excellent quality, loads perfectly, love the layout.
YouTube: video streaming is very smooth now.

I'll see if I can find other things

Regards Robert

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Much better touch screen sensitivity! Plus an impression of quicker functioning.

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I don't know if its just me but I think that the browser has improved. I am now able to scroll smoothly while the page is loading. This change makes browsing feel much faster.

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Ive noticed that the camera produces more lifelike colors. Not all oranges and reds. It still sucks, but now it seems to suck less. :)

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I've noticed that the down and up keys scroll the page now too if you hold them down. Was that there before?

Battery life is mucho improved now too. I also love being able to finally watch the YouTube videos without any choppiness.

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The touchscreen is so much responsive. Now I don't have to use so much pressure to use the scrollbar especially on the right side of the screen. Before the update, I thought I had a defected touchscreen.

As for the camera, whenever I move the camera around....it's so much smoother.

The new Flash 9 update is great. I was at the Apple store earlier today to test out the iPhone's web browsing capabiliy to browse my website and I was disappointed that it had no flash support and was a bit slow to load.

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My device seems more responsive, browser and flash update gives me more websites to view that didn't work before. And it may just be me but the screen seems more viewable in the day light, with backlight of course.

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I just noticed something new with the flash plugin, there are now settings like you find on a pc. It seems that flash has support for the microphone but there is also a video tab. The webcam doesn't show up as an option but it seems likely that it might in the future. Does anyone know how flash detects webcams with the desktop linux plugin?

I don't know how well it would work because video playback isn't great while its transfering data.a.a.

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I just noticed, the browser remembers zoom settings... While viewing a site at 100%, I click a link and then zoom in to 150% to read some tiny text. When I hit the back arrow the zoom goes back to 100% when the original page loads.
I dont remember this working like this before. It is a realy nice touch.

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The "Settings..." (local storage etc.) were there on the old version too.

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Here is my list;

the device seems faster

youtube works well with flash set to low quality rendering..very watchable

flash9 support

SKYPE...nice addion.. Very good interface

multitasking seems to be better, i open alot of apps at once.. The update seems to handle this better...may be related to point numberone on this list.

eville

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Kismet works again!

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youtube and skype ftw! =]

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My N800 does that with the old firmware. I wish it didn't though: If I increase the zoom, I'd prefer it to stay that way.

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IMHO very important: battery management has pretty much improved, as announced on the release notes. I d say by 30% (I can do the same things I used to with having to recharche only in the evening instead of noon-afternoon), but this might be optimistic from me. Anyway, there IS improvement.

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Last night I took mine out back while sitting next to the chimnea fire with friends. We could easily pass the N800 around pulling songs off YouTube and battery life wasn't an issue. I could provide music before but only from my pre-installed files or radio links.

This time 4 or 5 people used it for the first time and were able to pull what they wanted to hear, with little or no instructions. We were all Happy Campers last night. :)

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ya right the Flash 9 would by good if there was a java with it :mad: so its no good with gaming site

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The improved touch screen sensitivity is really appreciated, it's now much more like my Palm. As I keep using both devices I was always aware of the fact that I had to press harder on the N800. Now it's good.

I checked the camera after reading one of the above posts, and indeed it seems to be less red now.. good!

Obviously I also like having Skype on it, I always used my laptop for that before. Now it can stay packed away most of the time (and I didn't use to be on Skype that much lately because I had to unpack the laptop). Now I'm back online. And one more thing - the Skype interface on the N800 is like the old Skype versions for Linux, which were much much nicer than the current Desktop Linux version (which doesn't have the history tab, for example). Good stuff.

Now I only need java applet support in the browser and I would be able to do all my networking on the N800.