Thread: Connectivity Options for N800
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Zebee is offline Zebee
2007-11-30 , 19:26
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Originally Posted by venkatease View Post
Hi

Relying on Wifi spots and connecting via phone seems to be stupid as the device does not have life on its own..I bough the N800 in May while visiting US and after coming back to India i have not used it at all except for a short period..

They cant expect us to carry all kinds of extra devices to make this work meaningfully..And what about the cost you incur for adding on these..All looks meaningless..atleast to me..

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My guess is that it is about internal politics in Nokia.

That to make it a phone would mean it competed with the Symbian based ones and that there were people against that.

The really useful thing would be a USB ethernet dongle like http://www.expansys.com.au/p.aspx?i=105804

One with a mini-usb connector of course

It is yet another thing to carry, but there must be small ones.

Hmmm... http://www.linux-usb.org/devices.html might be a place to investigate. If someone's done drivers for a USB ethernet, especially for ARM, then it shouldn't be too hard to get a dongle working on the N800.

Right now I'd say finding the smallest possible wifi hub is the way to go. Yes, damned annoying. There's bugger all publically available wifi here in Australia, my N800 is still just a toy I am using to learn things and play with. I don't like it as much as my iPaq for the things I usually do so I doubt it will replace that. Which is sad cos that's what I bought it for....



Zebee