She also showed a way to power via usb that i thought was not one of the features of the n810

Unfortunately, most all bluetooth keyboards have to offer the trade-off between traditional qwerty keyboard layouts and size/portability.

That said, I bought a Think Outside Shasta keyboard, which is the same as the Ipaq keyboard. It has four rows of keys, which means the numbers are on their own row. There are a few things that take getting used to, like the / and ? key being on the right of the right shift key. However, it is the most like a qwerty keyboard of any that I have encountered. The downside is that it is a little larger than the other BT keyboards that I have seen. I use an oversized portable hard drive case that I found at Wal Mart.

--vr

Just to make this clear:

She is powering the N810 by getting the power FROM the USB port of, for instance a PC, but feeding that power INTO the normal regular power port of the N810, that is NOT INTO the N810's USB port. This is being done by using a custom cable she built.

You can check this by looking at the usb power cable she built by cutting some other cables, as explained in her site.

She is NOT feeding power into the N810 port to charge it ! Beware of this you could damage your Tablet if you do so...

Nokia sells a: "Nokia Charger via USB port CA-100" which works great for charging your N810 or your phone from your PC USB port.

Hope this info is useful.

Best regards.

Maybe I'm way off here -- I see Xournal (not XJournal, as referenced) in the Chinook extras - but can't find *ht* any place ...

Going off to find too many references for verifying my repos ... (hopefully a minimum of stuff from 2006 ....)

Eh, nope. Don't see 'em anywhere but the maemo.org/download (where her links were pointed).

And those didn't work ("application package not found" - and my repository looks like the downloaded repository reference).

Nevermind; this has just crossed the "not worth my time" line ....

Firstly, she is HE, and he is me.

FEBB, thanks for the clarification. Yes, its just lucky Nokia were wise enough to make the small pin power socket 5V, (and NO, dont try to charge into the usb socket).
I found 'no name' (and some named brands) usb wall chargers to be pretty unreliable on the actual AMPS rating. The only real way is to either test it with a multimeter, or just wire it up and see if you get the 'charging' icon on the N810.
Also a gotcha is if you use something like a 2-way usb hub/splitter, as they can drop the amps internally.
I threw away my Nokia charger, because while it could charge the N810, it didnt have enough amps to charge another device i had.
Of course you can buy the "Nokia Charger via USB port CA-100" , but this is cheaper.

George F, I'm Still using the el cheapo rollup keyboard, pretty happy, and it even doubles as a rollup pillow sometimes.

fattomm, would love you to review some tech gear you traveled with.

fattomm, I actually intalled HTTrack straight from Application Manager, so maybe the repositories have been shuffled a bit. Good luck, ...and yes, Xournal not XJournal.

LOL MY BAD

I love that blog too. It almost tell everything I need.