Thread: The Nokia N800 User FAQ
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Alrighty, I'll give this a shot.

Originally Posted by celesteh View Post
Questions:
Is there non-official java for the n800?
There are a few projects working on this, such as Jalimo (http://www.jalimo.org/), however it's still very much alpha. No, this will not allow you to run Java applets in the web browser.

Originally Posted by celesteh View Post
The built-in browser doesn't log into blogger. How do I post to my blog?
I believe you can also use Maemo-Blog for this, however I don't know for sure. Also, the program seemed very unstable to me. Might fit your needs.

Originally Posted by celesteh View Post
How can I mount it on my bicycle handlebars? (Do I need to add waterproofing? Why doesn't anybody make a kit for this?)
Because people don't want to be run down by bikers who were too busy staring at the excellent screen. (Good for a potential ad.)

Originally Posted by celesteh View Post
Are there drivers to do bluetooth stuff (like browsing & file transfers) with OS X?
How can I copy pictures from my bluetooth (non-nokia) phone to my n800 wirelessly?
I don't know if the N800 supports the Bluetooth profiles to do that. I would imagine that whatever Bluetooth dongle you have for your Mac should work with it though.

Originally Posted by celesteh View Post
How do I make it sync to my apple contacts and calendar?
It's not a PDA and doesn't even have a built-in calendar app. You can try using the GPE apps for that though. I have no experience with this kind of stuff, so YMMV.

Originally Posted by celesteh View Post
Reasonably, should I hold out any hope at all for browser bugs (crash and otherwise) to be fixed? Are stupid UI bugs going to get fixed? This feels really beta, is it going to get better?
Sure. The N800 has gotten far more stable than it used to be a firmware upgrade or two ago. I doubt the UI is going to change much, but I can easily see some browser bugs being fixed.... so long as they were entered into Bugzilla, anyways.

Originally Posted by celesteh View Post
Some of the cool looking 3rd party apps have dependencies which can be filled with repositories that I don't know about yet. Is there a list of all the repositories that I should add to my application manager?
A little hard to come up with a full list, but the best is on the Maemo Wiki (http://maemo.org/community/wiki/appl...repositories/).

Originally Posted by celesteh View Post
I screwed up the settings for a 3rd party app and I think the best way to fix them is just to start over. How do I trash my old settings?
I believe you'll have to use Bash to do it, but I believe the files in question are stored somewhere in /home/user/ and probably in a hidden file or directory (those all start with a period).

Originally Posted by celesteh View Post
Why does the iphone not support GPS?
Because Apple is ******ed, but I'm sure that's nothing you haven't already suspected.

Originally Posted by celesteh View Post
Um, but seriously, if anybody has answers for these, I'm all ears.
Hope this helped.