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Originally Posted by Morhas View Post
I've been looking for a handheld device without phone capabilities for a while now, and haven't found anything appropriate. I used the ipaq110, but found it extremely fragile, and was not impressed with the battery like.

Looking at the n810, my main use for it would be school. I have one year left of highschool, and after that I want to go into compeng. So here are my questions. Does the n810 come with any address book or calendar apps on it? If not, are you able to install other apps on the device, and if so, are they readily available. I assume you would be able to since it's a unix based OS, but I thought I better ask before investing the money.

Thanks for advice in advance.
If you make a list of your needs and put them in priority then compare them with $$ value you may not need to "invest" in an N810, but may easily get by an N800.
The N810 is generally running about $325+, an ebay N800 about $175. Depends on how important $150 and warranty is to you.

As far as apps now with AbiWord, GPE suite, gnumeric, etc. either machine is a very powerful package. You can run Debian, KDE, etc.
The sky is not the limit.

As far as ruggedness, I've dropped mine several times and haven't broke it yet.

Good luck, I wish they had calculators back in 1967 when I was at your stage.
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