They all use the headphones as an antenna though. AM is different, that can use a very short antenna from what I remember (not all that useful though)

mplayer does most of its decoding on the ARM processor (except for sending mp3 to the dsp with the appropriate command line switches), there's presumably nothing stopping people from compiling and optimising the remaining gstreamer components (as the N800 only uses a few of them) to do decoding on the ARM (+DSP) and output in the standard video player.

I have some stereo bluetooth headphones, I can listen to music using them and my n800 and they work like a hands free kit with my phone, I've never tried making a call with my N800 so I can't tell you whether the microphone works with it (but the hardware is there so I see no reason why it couldn't be made to work).

We used to have this on the Cxxx(x) Zauruses, I certainly wasn't all that fond of it - generally I had loads of free space on my /home partition and had filled up /. Equally, when you upgrade, the configuration files left behind in hidden directories under your home directory almost always screwed something up. I suppose the same problem with occur if one uses a backup tool, but one of these could be rule based to avoid some problems.

I think that unless it's small patches or updates, you'll end up preferring to flash a new image after making a backup (this assumes a really good backup tool, which can backup a list of installed applications, etc.). It's simply faster and cleaner - any 'fixes/hacks' you've made to the underlying system (which will hopefully have been addresses in the update) will not remain lying about breaking things.

On the Zaurus (OpenZaurus), depsite my not using a backup tool (other than copying data to the flash card), I think it was easier as the package manager would let you select a whole raft of packages to install and then do it all in one go, rather than having to select, install, wait for the list to refresh, find your position again, and repeat.


Simon