First, ThoughtFix: stop whining. Yes, you'll see that the tech websites that do reviews will blur over or otherwise obfuscate serial numbers, and you probably should have done so, as should every other site that had that information out there. But, no, this is not a super-secure "product-activation" scheme that you broke.

As for the rest of you: you were told 2008 was not available for the n800. You were required to give an 810 serial number to download it. You installed it using third-party tools. So you willfully represented yourselves as n810 owners to Nokia when downloading the software, and did everything possible so that Nokia could deny responsibility and refuse support if something bad happened. This is not a "beta" of the n800 version. Nokia would be required to support that.

So I say, "cool! Let me know what you find out!" If you break something, you're SOL. From the Nokia perspective, this is the best of both worlds: they get beta feedback if they want it, without support issues.

As for why there's a delay, my guess would be less along the lines of "give the N180 time to shine" than "because the same QA people are doing V&V on both machines".

Or link (ln -s) the maps folder onto a folder a big SD card.

*/ Edit ; It automatically creates a maps folder on /media/mmc2/, with is the 2GB drive on the N810 I think.... */

Holy THANK YOU JESUS..

*Runs to grab N800*

Hmm.. nah I wait for the official release. There's nothing wrong with Os 2007 as it is

Plus there is no EULA on the http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/nokia_N810.php page so it "void" in the same was as a EULA on the inside of a shrink rapped box is "void"....

first garnet vm, now os2008 on the n800.
pretty, pretty,, pretty good.

I downloaded ubuntu 7.10 and burnt a disk. Then i ran the disk and installed(not in the true sense) ubuntu using install ubuntu option. since wifi wont work immediatly i used a ethernet cable to download both the 0s2008 bin file and the 3.0 flasher for x86. now go to applications and open xterm and follow the instructions on the cnet site....http://www.cnet.com/surveillance-sta....html?tag=head

Just one thing extra.
After opening do the following

cd Desktop
chmod a+x ./flasher-3.0
./flasher-3.0 -u -F RX-44_2008SE_1.2007.42-18_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin
after unpacking

sudo ./flasher-3.0 --enable-rd-mode
sudo ./flasher-3.0 -k zImage -f
sudo ./flasher-3.0 -n initfs.jffs2 -f
sudo ./flasher-3.0 -r rootfs.jffs2 -f -R

And that is it you are done.
I am a linux noob and i assure you tat it is a lot easier than it looks.

And dont worry about bricking it... just follow the instructions and you will hvae os2008.

I haven't try OS2008 with my N800 but...

I was reading User's guide of N810 and found out that Clear device... feature will remove all your data from internal non-removable memory card from N810 and I think this means removable-internal card for N800 users. So be careful out there if your going to use N810-OS2008 in your N800 because this feature may remove all your data from internal memory card

I think this feature will work differently with official OS2008 release for N800 or I really hope so

Didn't remove any data from my internal 4GB memorycard when i flashed n800.

Yeah . my card is still the same. IInfact the maps downloaded directly to my internal memory card. I dont know if this is autiomatic because my external 4gig card was almost full. SO i think it decides to download the maps to any space which the 500 mb maps can fit.