Thread: N800 Modding?
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2008-02-18 , 15:35
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Originally Posted by brecklundin View Post
HAHAHAHA...gawds I need sleep!! I dint even read that before posting the same thing...d'oh!! I am laughing so hard right now...I have never missed a post that close to mine before...sorry dude!

off to dreamland for me...

BTW, there is some stuff that might be better than bondo. It's a binary adhesive called PC7 that when it cures is completely sandable and can be shaped w/o losing it's strength. But if you made a form and filled it in with the missed adhesive you could create a custom spacer.
Meh, there's stuff better than bondo or PC7. It's called aluminum here, and aluminium in the UK and some other places. Of course, it'd help if you had ready access to a machine shop, but I've that, so that's what I'd use...

Don't have time, but the mod I'd like would clip on as a battery cover, and extend over the right end of the N800 as well. It could connect to the USB port, and contain:
  • Extended battery
  • USB hub w/ external USB ports (with switch to enable powered mode and/or disconnect completely for battery life)
  • USB-RS232 adapter (with switch to disconnect)
  • WiMAX, 802.11N, or other WWAN adapter (with switch to disconnect.
  • 2.5" hard-drive, maybe. I don't think I'd want this, but you could, if you wanted to watch much video.
  • Storage for a pen-length stylus.

Yeah, the thing would now be a 1.75" thick brick, but that wouldn't bother me. YMMV.
Last edited by Benson; 2008-02-19 at 19:01.