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Posts: 33 | Thanked: 0 times | Joined on Aug 2007 @ Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Got mine yesterday, and discovered that wacthing it charge makes it charge slower <G)
Some thoughts on the N800, (so far I love it)

- screen is excellent, far better than any I have used in the winMobile world
- Form factor is great. Nice useable size, The stand is very handy.
- Flashing from XP (ok, I know, I know, but until there are Unix versions of the software I NEED to run, thats what I run (and don't tell me about WINE, no joy there) to OS2008 was painless. Hardest thing was getting fat fingers to hit the correct keypress timing to gey the USB prompt.
- Battery life so far, is extremely good. Better than the WinMobile devices I have owned, not as good as my Newtons
- web application/repo install sucks, mostly from the server side.
Nokia really needs to look at the infrastructure behind this.
Too many retries needed for sucess, too many server side connection issues. Too many failed catalog refreshes. This needs to be fixed, it really makes the device look bad.
- FbReader is a must have app, I've started converting all my e-books over to html.
- Video converted with the Nokia converter works very well. I converted some episodes of Fred Dibnah from DVD, and they play
VERY well, just as nice, if not better,than on my daughters Ipod.
- This thing needs a nice case with screen protection,as well as a good screen protector. Time to search around.
- The earbuds are painful. I'll have to see if my Koss work.(I don't need the mike). It would be nice to listen to Sirius in the liveing room, simply by turning on the Sirius radios FM transmitter function. (the Sirius reciver is hooked up into our stereo system, as broadcast radio up here sucks)
- Wireless connectivity is excellent, config was painless.
- Found the internal SD slot a bit finicky, but it works.
Looking forward to the release of the final version of OS2008..

Thats it for now..
Cheers
Harold