I bought my n800 in early 2007. I have never tried to reflash my firmware to a more recent version, mainly because I was never aware that that is something that you do regularly. Somehow when you but the N800, there is no user guide that tells you about it.

Now I see that everyone is getting excited about the 2008 version of the firmware and I have decided to figure our how to do it. I'm a little nervous about the process because of warnings that it will turn my n800 into a brick. It would be great if experienced users could give some general advice on when to reflash and what to look out for. For example, the 2008 version is still beta. Should I wait until it's out of beta? What won't work when I am running 2008? Will my killer-app Maemo-Mapper die? Should I instead try to flash the latest version of 2007?

Finally, how do I find out what my current version of the firmware is? Is there a command for this? I think it's Bora, whatever that is.

-- rhackenb