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Originally Posted by Beni View Post
Those aren't major things. I could live with those alone. The N800 is suppose to be a Internet Tablet, it goes on the internet pretty well and probably is the best portable internet device. However, if you are trying to do anything practical, it is very very slow. Browsing on these forums for example on the N800 is slow.. it stutters when using the "drag scrolling". It is somewhat better when just pressing and holding down on the D-Pad, but then it becomes unresponsive then just keeps on scrolling even when you are not pressing anymore.
This is the fault of the webmonkey site designers and their customers and even Microsoft. When http came out, you could browse any site just fine on a 33mhz computer. But no, feature-itis and bloat and some very bad ideas were allowed to take over the web world, and now browsers require tens to hundreds of megabytes of memory to display several pages. Web sites now bog down gigahertz-cpus. This is not the fault of Nokia.
Originally Posted by Beni View Post
Sure it has a webcam. However, its usefullness is almost none since you can't use it to talk to people that are on PC's (Skype, AIM, etc). Since its bound to Tablets alone, the webcam is useless. Not to mention that its put in such a poor place that you have to angle yourself just to get a full frame.
Agree, more standardization for video chat has been slow to arrive. This is the realm of the video-chat market players, not the fault of Nokia.
Originally Posted by Beni View Post
The "Media" features in it are poor as well.... I assume that the N800 would be able to play these video's without me having to do anything.
Again the source of the problem is the fact that everybody and his dog is creating new video formats, selling software for it, and often locking it down with patents. Check this out.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html
That's just what mplayer supports. Chances are you won't even read through that list, not to mention spending hundreds of hours to research legality, write codecs, etc. The mplayer team has been working on their project for many, many years. If you understood video you would realize, this is not the fault of Nokia.
Originally Posted by Beni View Post
First I try to play a video of a Mac and PC commercial. On mPlayer it stutters horribly, so I cancel that out. On the official media player, I have better results. Seemingly it plays perfectly for the first 15 seconds or so, then it starts stuttering extremely, then when I try to do anything it says that its unresponsive so I close out of that. I learned from this experience that the N800 is useless for any non-transcoded videos.
1) Yes there are video formats that are problematic. 2) A lot of videos won't play on 400mhz Pentiums without hardware acceleration. 3) Your conclusion that because *some* videos do not play that the N800 is useless for any non-transcoded videos is incorrect. The N800 can play millions of non-transcoded videos - just not every video. This is not the fault of Nokia.
Originally Posted by Beni View Post
Supposedely when OS2008 is complete and not in beta, is should fix many of the issues that I talked about such as crashing programs, smoother internet performance and more. It is also good that Canola 2 will be coming out which will bring a nicer media experience.
OS2008 won't magically make the above listed issues go-away.
Originally Posted by Beni View Post
Anyway, the point of this post is that Nokia needs to work on their software.
For the reasons I listed above, the problems you mentioned are indeed due to crap software - written by the webmonkeys and the computing industry at large. There are a few areas where Nokia could realistically improve things. Compressing 10,000 man-years of software development into a 2-year time frame in order to meet infinite expectations is not one of them.

Originally Posted by Beni View Post
(Perhaps an Asus Eee?)
I have a notebook too. Mine doesn't suck like the Eee though.

Last edited by ArnimS; 2007-12-05 at 12:21. Reason: correction/typo