Thread: Considering a N810 for PIM and Video
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No Such Nick is offline No Such Nick
2008-02-18 , 22:46
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Originally Posted by sondjata View Post
On another note, reading your wish list, you'd probably do better with a iPod touch , especially if your going to find yourself re-encoding video anyway. That's heresy around these parts though.
Well i did some tests with the Internet Tablet Video Converter, and i'm pretty sure i won't be converting my library any time soon. Reencoding the Videos for one Weekend trip would probably take about 6 hours (Probably the night from Thursday to Friday). And since the recommended resolution is lower than most of the material i have, i would like to keep the source files. Converting everything would take month and lots of space. I'm probably going to have a "to watch list" pre converted and if i want to take something else, i just take it in whatever resolution it is in...

The touch isn't much of an option to me, among other things i don't want to advocate "closed by design" architecture. I like to tinker with devices, I have an iPod Nano and i put linux on it and wrote some small video player, mainly to prove it could be done...

Also i don't think the touch would offer me enough possibilities for PIM / E-Mail Managment.
The closest other competitors would either be an eee or an Archos 605 Wifi...

Thank you all for the information sofar, i've learned quite abit about the limitations of the N810, but i'm pretty sure i will still get one...

Bye,
NsN