Nope...nothing

Hmm.. that's odd, I've used it with quite a few and my partner uses it all the time. These are standard .xls files, not the new Office 2007 .xlsx files?

He has an N810 now, which is part of the magic

Standard .xls files but heavy ones, with macros and so, the only part I can see with gnumeric is partial text cells and no more...

xkbd, xvkbd, matchbox keyboard, etc.

I've been using matchbox keyboard, need to figure out a better way to hide/show the keyboard though.

I bought an Eee last weekend (wanted a new gadget to take away with me).

Introduction and comment facility at:

http://www.maemopeople.org/index.php...ook_nokia_n810

It's a very cool little device, and for ~£200 a bargain for a tiny, little, full-featured laptop. I imagine my N810 (when it ever arrives) will be used much more. Being in the middle of nowhere this week, I really missed the out-of-the-box Bluetooth of a NIT as I didn't have time to get a small Bluetooth USB dongle and set up all the command line scripts etc. before leaving.

For all the talk of the NIT not being a consumer device, it's level of integration and polish when setting up Bluetooth DUN connections is unsurpassed (even if my phone was set up wrongly by Vodafone and I needed to change the CID in Connection Manager).

That's very true. When I bought my 770 I also bought my first cell phone. I had never used Bluetooth before, nor DUN obviously. It worked for me at first try and I never thought twice about it, until a while ago when l wanted to use the same phone for DUN with a notebook running XP. l was astonished at the amount of work and downright black magic that required !

You all raise some great points.
I certainly have been immensely frustrated with the N800 at times but as I reflect on the thread here a little, I am brought back to the other devices I have used and see with clarity much the same scenario. While I am a little more 'user' savvy on the Palm OS, I had many frustrations with the Treo650 and at times more strangely the Palm TX with just plain bizarre behaviour or instability. I also looked at many other possible mobile options. Windows Mobile is just a big profit mongering fest for common apps that are hardly 'new'. I got close to purchasing a "Tablet Kiosk" product. A very nice and powerful unit but again XP.

So with the N800's I have stressed a bit, with Skype2008 working on one unit and oddly installed but non-launching on the other(fixed now), but my "attitude of gratitude" is growing every day here!

Really, when this baby is working it is working great. What about the part, everything is FREE !?!?!?
Aren't all these people, donating their time and complex efforts for nothing?
SO as much as I could really gripe and flame with these growing pains as a Palm/Apple crossover Linux newbie, I really have to step back and say KUDOs! to the development teams who are doing some truly funky stuff here. Really.
That's community. And these volunteers of sorts are really giving it momentum and professional look.
I now find myself 'bragging' (a little) to my friends who are still pondering their choices and waiting and waiting for a locked up iPhone or something crackberry.ish in Canada.

EEEE? sounds like a replay of the flavours of the ol e-mate/apple. yawn-againnnn.

For some the tablets work, for some they don't. I am among the latter. I do know my way around Unix but I am not a SysOp nor do I intend to become one. I wanted/needed a PIM/PDA system with some Internet-Abilities, text entry/storage abitities and PDF viewer capabilities. The "programmabel" was a nice add-on, the "Runs I-Want-to-be Unix" OS was acceptabel.

Sadly the 770 failed in most aspects for me and while text entry might be solved with the 810(1) if the keyboard is useabel but other aspects do not work out:

+ I have to carry a seperat phone
+ Since my company uses Exchange (and will do so until doomsday) I can't easily sync and back-sync data to the Nokia
+ Complex PDF files render rather slowly on the N770
+ The basic browser is lousy. The add-on ones are so-so
+ The Office package (AbiWord) was so-so and often unstabel
+ Software Installation was a PITA
+ Software Development was restricted to C and Phyton, no JAVA

The problems resulted in the necessity to carry a phone, the tablet and a PDA and finding space for all in a business suit.

Well, the 770 is electronic trash by now, I have a MDA that can

+ Phone
+ Sync with Outlook
+ Show PDF-files if necessary
+ Can do JAVA
+ Can do .NET

Much handier than the Tablets.





(1) Using a BT-Keyboard was not the solution. I don't wear cargo pants so carrying one means carrying a attache case. And if I carry that, I might just as well bring a EEE or similar subnotebooks

I'm surprised you had to get an n770 to figure that out. I mean with a little bit of reading you could have figured out that the n770 is not the right device for you up front...
By the way: While i did agree on that "carry an extra phone issue" when i first got my n800, i know disagree: It is great that when i go out at night i can just take my small phone with me and carrying both on a work day doesn't matter cause i have a briefcase anyway...


PS: Java & .net sucks