Thread: My little review of N810
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gompers is offline gompers
2008-02-10 , 06:15
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Originally Posted by Kolyan2k View Post
I did do the research. PAN/DUN issue is not something you come across. and I was told that Abiword and Gnumeric can replace Word and Excel, but they are not even close YET.

If browse-on-the-go is the only feature thats advertised, N810 certainly does that well, but $400-500 is a little to much for just that feature IMO. OQO2 is a much better device of course, but it's not in the same price range.
One of the great disservices of communities like this is that people tend to "oversell" devices because they like them so much.

It's a great little toy for doing GPSish stuff, and internet browsing. It's passable for IM, and pretty decent at media playback. Outside of that, everything is pretty much in beta, and has variable degrees of usefulness.

You aren't going to find ANYTHING that is even close to Word/Excel on any mobile device outside of a full-fledged laptop or UMPC running Word/Excel (or POSSIBLY Open Office, though I personally disagree with that).

Nokia doesn't market the n8x0 devices as anything other than "internet tablets", and I think that's exactly what they are. They aren't marketed or sold as PIM devices (ala Palm), or productivity devices (ala Windows Mobile). They are designed, sold, and marketed as something completely different, and I think they do a good job of what they are sold as. They stink badly as PIM devices or general purpose computers though.