Noob looking for Suggestions
 

Hey, am looking to buy a handheld device, im not really one for appointments ir calenders or anything like that so i dont think PDA's would be much use, please correct me if they can be used for other things, i am looking at the Nokia N800, it looks really good, i would love to use the internet using my mobile phone when im out, does anyone know if this will work with a Sony Ericsson K800i, i would also love to know if i could use MSN on this Tablet, and also if there are any Blue-Jacking/Snarfing App's avaliable for it, any help would be great, i really like the look of the N800 although if there are good alternatives that would be great too :D.

Thanks

Re: Noob looking for Suggestions
 

Hi, I've used the Tablet N770 and works perfect with a Sony Ericsson K610i. Really the Tablet finds almost all kind of new brand phones (not only Nokia).

Of course, N800 (and 770) is not a PDA, but a mini-laptop computer. You can do whatever you like (and can) with it.

Nevertheless, if you only want to browse the internet and run some Java and Python applications, I'll tell you that Nokia phone N80 is able to do that and more (with an Opera browser that gives you full access to almost all webpages), and you combine a mini-computer and a 3G phone. But, of course, it hasn't got Linux inside, and that may be a handicup... :rolleyes:

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Someone will give you the definite answers for the MSN thing (that's messenger, right? You'll probably have to settle for the built-in Google Talk I suspect), and I don't know what jacking/snarfing is.. but if your K800i is on, with BT enabled and visible, at the time you first start up your N800 it should see it and pair just beautifully. At least my K700i did. It works very well to browse the net through a GPRS connection, much better than I expected. Of course wi-fi is faster (and cheaper) though.
What it doesn't do for now at least is handling java applets. It can do flash, but not high performance (it's flash7 I think, while the latest and greatest is flash9). The screen works great for the desktop version of gmail, which should give you an idea.

Re: Noob looking for Suggestions
 

Hey, thanks very much for your replys, yeh it was MSN Messenger i ment, sorry but ive been rading up and it seems thatm Gaim works so that should be just fine :D, im really glad to hear the the K800i will work :D, it will be orange internet package on the phone i will be using, im just wondering if anyone knows just for internet surfing and messenger use how many MB that whould take up on average, um i have alot more questions but i cant think just now lol..o do you know if blueserial works on the n800 and aslo a decent place/website to buy it from in the uk :D

Thanks again

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Well, surfing could eat up megabytes quite quickly.. if I read gmail through the browser it takes a megabyte or two, and reading a newspaper online also sucks bytes. If, on the other hand, I read Slashdot through its mobile-optimized version it'll take about 0.5 MB to read a full day of Slashdot. Anyway I'm planning to try a text-based browser (run in an xterm) and see how much data that will transfer (the connection display on the N800 tells how much data is transferred).

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Hey, thanks again for your reply :D, i was asking because on orange they have a fiar use policy which is they dont like you going over 1gb a month i think, although im not sure what would be the best phone package for me to get :(, have you used PhoneLink, if you have does it work with your k700i and is it any good (im really slow with the phones keypad for texting)

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I've got one of those 1GB-a-month plans, and it works quite good with my 770. Even trying to surpass it (using the phone connection instead of available WiFi), I find it impossible... just only 300 or 400MB per month. :D

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@Haktar: PhoneLink? That's the one for SMS sending from the N800? I'm afraid I haven't tried it. For other kind of networking it's all built-in on the N800 (pairing to phone and the like).

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Thanks again, well youve sold me lol ordered one today :D, should be here for wednesday :D, i cant wait :rolleyes: , also one of my friends are going to get one, can we transfer songs/videos etc to each other over wifi? or bluetooth (not sure on the transfer rate, pretty sure its not great)

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You can send files from one device to the other through BT via the file manager. Set the other device with BT on and visible, and it will show a popup where you can chose to open the file with an application or save it etc. It works more or less the same as when you send pictures and the like between mobile phones through BT. I haven't measured the rate, but as the N800 uses BT 2.0 it at least has the potential to be much faster than the typical BT 1.1/1.2 which is the most common in use on phones currently.