Hi Guys,

What do you use your Nokia n810 mainly for? Please rate(1-10) n810 as one of the following, its performance, what software I use and battery life.

1. Web surfing.
2. Music Player.
3. E-book Reader.
4. Office(word, excel, powerpoint) viewer/editor.

I am awaiting my n810 this week. I want to know, for example, if n810 is a good music player or it can replace my mp3 player and if i use it as my music player will its battery last long enough.

Thanks.
SK.

1. Web surfing rules if you browse light sites. Some sites will 'freeze' the tablet. I tend to use the mobile versions where applicable. For example, gmail html version is very fast compared to full gmail and gives up little functionality.
2. Vagalume rules. I haven't found a UPnP player that is perfect but MediaStreamer is the best I've found. I don't play from local storage. Battery life is not as good as a dedicated player.
3. FBReader rules. End of story, get it and be happy. It will read anything and I can't think of anything I'd add to it.
4. Office - sorry I don't have any input here.

Frank

I've been wondering what is the difference between the build in pdf reader and FBReader?I hate to have duplicate programs that do the same thing so I decided to stick with the build pdf reader but, I find it a bit slow.

Well, for 4, it doesn't run Office or Excel. But if you download antiword and docreader, you'll at least be able to open Word documents as pretty clean text documents. And you can do spreadsheets in Gnumeric.

As to 1, I have very few freezes, but I recommend, to get it that way, that you install FlashBlock, a hosts file, and make these tweaks.

All the difference in the world. FBReader is for reading eBooks, not pdfs. And it's great. For pdfs, you might want to check out evince. It's cool in that it lets you annotate them.

This is good. One of my question is still not answered that is about battery life while performing these tasks.

Thanks.

Depends really. PLaying music/video will certainly result in loss of power earlier than reading a PDF.

With light web browsing, RSS feed reading, Mauku checking/posting, e-mail reading and writing, my tablet goes all day and then some.

The issue with using it as a media player (music) is that you'll crank up the CPU and increase memory usage, both of which will result in lower battery time.
Streaming music will also hit the battery since wifi will be cranked.

Don't expect to have iPod classic type of battery life with this thing.

hmm... that means i need an extra pocket in my jeans to hold all these gadgets.....cell phone...ipod.....n810....

I am buying it for web surfing, pdf reading and ppt viewing. So that i do not need to carry my laptop. I hope it can do all these thing masterfully.

Thanks.

If I read this right, you're asking me to lump my primary use as one of the following, and describe it. But in fact, I use it for several, so I'm gonna do as others have, and list them all. Moreover, I currently am running an all-N800 shop here, but they're the same under the hood, so I think it's applicable.

1. Web surfing.
   I use this pretty heavily. I use the full GMail (the real full one) using webkit-eal and have no problem. Obviously slower than desktop, but fine. All the sites I regularly visit do fine, too. Tear is promising, but not really ready yet. Battery life? I charge it too often to be sure, but over 4 hours of moderate web surfing when the battery was new.
2. Music Player.
   Probably my single biggest use, just because I have it on so often. It's sitting on my desk right now, plugged in and merrily cranking out "The Storms are on the Ocean" while I'm typing this on my desktop.
   
   I use mpd, mpc, mmpc, and Sonata. (mpd is a server, the rest are clients - mpc is a scriptable frontend, and mmpc and Sonata are graphical frontends that look like a conventional media-player.) Since mpd uses CPU rather than DSP decoding for mp3s, I should be suffering some battery life reduction, but it's easily good for at least six hours of continuous music through headphones. (Less if I also use wifi substantially, more if it stays in my pocket and I don't mess with it.) I've heard of something like 12 hours using it as an mp3 player only and using a DSP codec, and I've gotten over 12 hours of music and light web usage on a Mugen 3.6Ah battery.
3. E-book Reader.
   Don't use this one to speak of.
4. Office(word, excel, powerpoint) viewer/editor.
   Occasionally do some spreadsheets with gnumeric, and the N810 should be decent with abiword (since it has a keyboard), but I don't do much with such documents at all.

Well, I could give you scores from 1-10 on that, but I'm not sure what they'd mean.

I've given you a numeric battery life estimate, but for performance... well, it keeps up with the mp3, it makes noise that sounds like the song... I guess it performs.

It doesn't have as fancy of audio tricks as rockbox, but it suffices for me. (I have a Sansa, but it's just a cool toy to me; so that means even when the only cost to me would be stuffing an extra device in my pocket and switching headphone jacks, I stay with the N800. You might consider that a rather positive recommendation.)

I already talked about battery life, but I hadn't seen Sondjata's post at the time. I don't know how long you spend between chargers, but especially if you can fork out the $80ish (IIRC) for a 3.6Ah battery, I think you may be able ditch the ipod.
Powerpoint is a little hassleful; you'll either have to use the bloated beast that is OOo, or convert them elsewhere. If the latter is fine with you, it should do them all masterfully. If the former, I haven't really tried it.

Actually, evince does PDF presentations quite awesomely, so if they're PDFable elsewhere, and bring the PDFs, it should do a nice job. (Used it for viewing presentations for a class last year...)