Thread: My wife stole my tablet!
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Jerome is offline Jerome
2008-05-28 , 05:59
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Originally Posted by EIPI View Post
Her embrace of the product, and the ease with which she has learned to use it for its *intended* purpose, has reinformced in my mind that Nokia has hit the nail squarely on the head with this combination of hardware and software.

That is not a very nice thing to say about your wife, and women in general.


This being said, my experience has also proven that the N800 is quite usable for people not very keen on technology. Let me count:
-my 11 years old son
-my sister
-my mother (who needs help for basic maintenance of her PC)
-a friend of mine and her mother
-a friend's wife and father (just to show that there are technology-impaired men... )

Those are people who only use a computer for basic tasks (word processing and a bit of web surfing). The least able person is my mother (unfortunately) and I should say that she is sometimes a bit lost on the N800 (but less than on her PC). There, the huge advantage is that the N800 does not need regular maintenance. We use video chat regularly, so that she can see her grandchildren. We tried to use skype at first, but her PC kept forgetting about the camera, and she was not able to reconfigure it. After less than two months, skype stopped working alltogether, and I can't maintain her PC, because I live 1000Km away. The N800 has proven to be a much more stable device...