Thread: Considering a N810 for PIM and Video
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Wzrd is offline Wzrd
2008-02-19 , 03:21
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#16
Originally Posted by No Such Nick View Post
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

The Nokia Internet Converter is a POS. Its slow and sucks ***. I use either WinAVI Video Converter or Intervideo IVideotoGo. Both of those convert videos faster. The only thing is that is converts AVI files to 320X240 instead of 400X240...not really a big deal.

I'm looking for a PIM app as well for my N800 running OS2008. So far I haven't had any luck with Garnet working properly with Palm apps I use on a regular basis on my Sony Clie. It crashed my N800 so bad that I had to reformat it.

Basically my N800 is useless for me except for browsing the internet quickly, getting on Skype/Gizmo and chatting on Pidgin (IM app).

I STILL end up carrying my laptop, cell phone, Sony Clie and my N800 around because they do different things I need to do for my business. I could leave my N800 at home and just bring my laptop for surfing but what makes it nice is that its light and easy to whip out if I need to check something on the net quickly.

I'd rather have one or two devices that can do everything.

Since the N800 doesn't seem to be able to do what I want, I'm probably gonna end up getting a Treo when my cell contract is up for renewal in a few months.