Thread: Considering N800, many questions
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Originally Posted by spiffytech View Post
3) I've heard that the N800 isn't so hot with video if it's not optimized for the device. Has this been fixed with the up-clocking in OS2008? Do youtube videos play smoothly in either OS revision?
Non-optimized stuff is hit-or-miss, but optimized stuff plays smooth and looks great. You should set up a server for on-the-fly transcoding with aflegg's excellent mediaserv, or one of the commercial solutions (if you're on Windows) for when you're at home (or if you have a decently sized upstream, even) and just pre–re-encode stuff for watching on the go.

YouTube plays fine under OS2008.

Originally Posted by spiffytech View Post
6) Does the N800 have a proper standby mode? I could only figure out how to lock the buttons/screen or turn the device off in the store.
There's a soft poweroff mode (sleep, basically, but you can decide whether you want the radios to stay on or off) that you can activate with a long press on the powerkey or a double-click on the power key (depending on the settings in /etc/mce/mce.ini). It's very effective to quickly stow the device and saves power very nicely.