maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - Thinking of buying N810, please help with questions

	Benson	2008-07-17 , 19:38
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Originally Posted by paracha3

This is my first post here. I am seasoned Nokia N95-3 users and now i am thinking about buying N810 to replace carrying laptop with me when I travel. I have searched for reviews but my couple question could not be answered. I am writing this hoping that N810 owners can answer some of my questions.
BWT I have Nokia N95-3 with AT&T 3G data and I plan on pairing with it.

There's one of these posts a week. There's a lot of overlap between questions-before-I-buy-of-the-week posts, so you really should search for some of those, and read them.

That said:

Questions are in order of importance to me

1-Can you create,view & edit office docs (Word,Excel etc) on this out of the box? If not can any installed app would do it?

No.

Gnumeric is available, and quite handily does spreadsheet work, with Excel compatibility. I use and recommend.

For word processing, Abiword is now an open beta, but (as I understand) it's only useful on N810s or with a BT/USB keyboard due to onscreen keyboard issues. I have an N800 (they're practically identical internally, but among hardware differences, we lack a keyboard), and my BT keyboard's dead ATM, so you'll need advice from others on usability; there's a couple threads around you can read.

OOo is available, either natively in Debian, or by installing Debian as a chroot environment, rather than as a boot environment. It's even slower than on a desktop, of course.

KOffice is in KDE, which Penguinbait has built, and also has some success; I think it's slower than abiword and gnumeric, but it's definitely faster (and less MS-compatible) than OOo.

2- Are you limited to Nokia maps on it or can you install Google Maps, Tomtom and/or Garmin on this thing?

No, no, no, and/or no.
There are other mapping softwares available, but not any of those. Maemomapper is the one I use most.

3- Does it have contacts AND calendar built in? Can you import/export and later sync your contacts/calendar items to PC (say outlook) or online services? Is there a app like "Nokia PC suite" for this thing?

PIM is sorely wanting, if you want it. Possible solutions are GPE, pimlico, gvm (Palm emulation) and probably some others. None of these is really considered satisfactory by those who want PIM, I guess.

4- Can it do VOIP like N95-3 or better? Support for outbound proxy & stun? I know it supports gizmo but i want to configure any other SIP say voipbusters.com or broadvoice.com etc

Dunno. Has generic SIP support, but I don't know enough about VoIP to talk.

5- Does it have real player like N series phones? Can you stream bbc news stream from url like
rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/ev7/live24/worldservice/livenews_v8.ra

I don't know about N-series phones, but it plays that just fine.

6- Does it have many third party apps available (preferably free) that would enhance productivity?

I've no clue what you want to produce. Check http://maemo.org/downloads/

7- How hackable it is if you are a linux guy? Can you develop stuff on it with gcc?

Finally, a real question.

Absolutely!
As alluded to before, you can install Debian as a boot-time alternative. You can also (after cloning the OS onto an SD for more room, at least) set up with gcc and the works under ITOS, and gleefully build stuff, yes. If you're asking that question, it might very well be the device for you!

I appreciate all the help provided. It will definitely help me device.

"Help me device"... Say what?

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