I did it!
 

After much agonizing thought (N800 vs. N810), I just ordered an N800 and two 8GB SD cards. I'm looking forward to the device. I'll be using it for media playback and ebooks.

Jeff

Re: I did it!
 

Sweet! Congratulations Jeff. I wish you both a long and happy time together :)

If you have any questions, just fire away.

--Jon

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I know I'll have questions :)

My initial project will be to set up the toolchain to compile software on my Kubuntu box. I don't expect I'll be doing much until I upgrade to OS2008 next month.

Long-term, I'd like to port medical J2ME software (arterial blood-gas interpretation and other clinical algorithms) I've written to this platform. I've never been a C/C++ coder, so I'm looking forward to the challenge.

Jeff

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Jeff
I am in the same boat. I ordered my n800 and 2 class 6 8 Gb cards on Monday. they should be here today. I cant wait. I have been reading this forum for a while to make up my decision and learn on about what i need to install. Hope you enjoy the N800


Dave

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There are some Maemo SDK on Ubuntu image available for wmware. So sdk don't need to be installed :). It's more easy :)

http://maemovmware.garage.maemo.org/

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IDN, Amazon shipped my stuff already, so I should be good to go next week.

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Thanks for the link!

Re: I did it!
 

I also just bought a N800 today..:-) I was thinking about the N810, but I want FM radio and don`t need gps.. they keyboard intergrated is something I probably could live without. Others have lived with the N800 before right.. so why not me. and with OS2008 and similar HW with not so bad price.

It came to 400$ with shipping and taxes from a Norwegian retailer. I could have paid less on Ebay, but I would not have easy task if it should be any fault on the device.
If I really like the N800 and find lot of use for it I could rather buy N810 next christmas instead of this year.. then there probably would come N800/10 Wimax or other models anyway.

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Welcome to the family.

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Well mine came today at lunch....YEA i played with it for a bit then upgraded it to the latest software so i could use the 2 8Gb cards. upgrade went fine, except i can not use the cards. i upgraded and then shut down the 800 added the card and booted up. went to dl skype and both cards are not being seen. any ideas? they are kingston class 6 8 gb sdhc cards.

dave