( http://www.engadget.com/photos/nokia...nds-on/488415/ )

Ok, I tossed a ton of video files at Media Player today (w/o installing anything BUT flashed OS). The stock media player even played files that wouldn't play in Mplayer (High Def Xvid that thre a resolution not supported in 2007/mplayer) played clean (surely there were a few dropped frames, nut NO STUTTER).

*EDIT* I fooled myself! The file I thought was HD Xvid was actually one I previously converted with Media Converter... The HD XVID copy, when tried, stuttered, stammered and choked.

If you use your tablet as a PMP (or have been wanting to), this is great news.

I liken the removal of the underclock and updated firmware/OS to one of those Claritin commercials where everything seems fine until they peel away the haze and everything gets super bright and colorful. We've been using the tablet and making do w/ what we knew. Now potential can be reached.

Engadget blurred the MAC in the picture I see.

There's an easy way to create your own valid # in the second post here:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=11693

nitpick / rant:
underclock? Not really. The CPU is designed to run at a range of speeds, and the manufacturer has to select one as standard. I have an HP49G+ which is also an ARM processor, and can be run at up to 200 MHz. Stock clock is 75 MHz, and with good reason: It metamorphoses into a battery-devouring beast at 200 MHz. Battery life is much better at 75 MHz, with reasonable performance.
As I understand it, what's being done with the new firmware is the same thing I do with my calculator. I run it up to 200 MHz when I am doing a big symbolic matrix op or whatever, and back it off to 66 MHz when I'm not doing much. Saves batteries, and gets the speed where it counts.
I think the new firmware integrates automatic power management so that the clock speed will drop well below the current 333 MHz when idle. So on average, it's probably an "under-clock". But really, it's just a more-effective power-management scheme than a fixed compromise speed.
So I'd like it better if people'd call the old thing "compromise speed" or something, because it's really a power-management compromise, not just an under-utilized component.

Still, I hope it's as awesome as you describe!
I think I'll wait till next week for the official version. (If it really is December, I may get impatient and jump, especially if they get a newer N810 version ready for download first.)

2008 for me!! Woo-hoo!

But - web page logins entered with finger keyboard do not work. Stylus keyboard is OK. Hmm.

It's a bug that was discovered a week ago in ITOS2008. You know how password fields usually are obscured with *s? Well, they screwed up, because instead of just hiding the password with *s, the tablet actually SENDS the *s as your password, which is why it doesn't work. This is ONLY a problem with the fullscreen thumbboard.

See the bug on Maemo's Bugzilla.

Many thanks zerojay - I thought I was either nuts or an idiot ( either of which may still be true.. )

Oh what the hell!! I just wasted 6 hours downloading the western us and it doesn't have Alaska!!

Time for a roadtrip!

It's included in the Russian maps....., ;)