nokia 810 buy in USA work in europe?
 

hi everybody,
I would like to buy a nokia N810. I'm from italy but in this moment I'm staying in the USA. Are there difference between american and europe device? If I buy it in the USA could I find some problems to use it in italy?
tks

federico

Re: nokia 810 buy in USA work in europe?
 

Mine works in Poland.
Bought in USA.
Both n770 and n810 - no WIFI related problems (the only thing that I can think of in terms of differences).

Re: nokia 810 buy in USA work in europe?
 

There's no difference - apart from the keyboard.

Mine is from New York as well, therefor I have an US keyboard layout. I understand that the local shops here in Germany would offer a localized device.

The rest is completely location agnostic, as far as I know. WIFI is obviously, so are the other features. I hope you don't think that the N810 is a PHONE, since that would be the most probable cause for problems (different frequencies, standards in the US and here).

Short version: Go ahead, buy it and save a bunch of money.

Re: nokia 810 buy in USA work in europe?
 

probably would just need a conversion plug and that's about it since the power adapter is 110/240V.

Re: nokia 810 buy in USA work in europe?
 

Good call, actually that was true for mine as well. Since he Nokia connector is a "standard" one for recent Nokia phones though I never really cared about that (I have a bunch of those) and for those traveling a lot an adapter is probably a requirement anyway.
Forgot about the difference in V, really.

Re: nokia 810 buy in USA work in europe?
 

This is not entirely obvious, because a greater number of WiFi channels (13) are available in Europe than in the USA (11). See here, paragraph title "limitations"...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi

This means that if a European access point were configured to use channel 12 or 13 it would be invisible to a USA device which did not recognize channels above 11. As a practical matter I do not know if the N810 radio used on USA models works with those channels, but perhaps someone can find this information?

Re: nokia 810 buy in USA work in europe?
 

Actually, my Acer laptop, bought in Europe, also cannot access WIFI channels 12+13. But I think it is very rare that an accesspoint will use those channels. And private open routers always use channel 6 :)

Re: nokia 810 buy in USA work in europe?
 

I'm using a n800 from the US in Europe and I can confirm that it won't see access points on channel 12 and 13. Is there any workaround for this?