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Originally Posted by EwanG View Post
Currently have an N800 that tether nicely with my AT&T 3G phone, and the last time I did the bus thing, it was "ok". I'm now getting ready to start riding the bus again, and the ride has gotten a bit longer as the city tries to get more folks around for the same dollar of gas.

My biggest complaint with the N800 has been how hard it is to type on the thing, and that I can't get Pandora to run on it with any reasonable speed. My second biggest complaint has been the "fun" it takes to get one of my Anime MKVs with subtitles into a form I can watch on the N800.

I thought about taking my laptop along instead, but in addition to being much bigger, I have never been able to successfully get it to work with my 3G phone (Samsung A707 on AT&T if you're curious).

So, I'm thinking maybe the N810 is the solution to my problem. Is it? Will it handle YouTube and Pandora reasonably well? Does it tether at least as easily as the N800? Does it have a version of the GiMP or a similar program for when I'm trying to be productive? Would it allow me to be tethered, and to still use a pair of bluetooth headphones?

If not, is there anything else that folks could recommend?

Thanks in advance!
As an alternative to Pandora, may I suggest http://www.last.fm? You can access it either via the web browser, or there are two clients for the N8x0: Vagalume and Canola has a plugin. Pandora has too much baggage with regards to its flash (?) interface.

I don't think the N810 will be much of an improvement. I'm pretty sure that inside it is identical to the N800. Well, with the exception of the GPS chip and keyboard chip. The CPU, RAM, graphics, etc., are all the same.

Hope this helps!
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