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Look like a clone of N8x0 with different shell case.

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At least Aigo didn't copy the d-pad positioning mistake...! Then again it doesn't look like it's got one at all!

Guys! Maemo? Pocket-computers with a real browser? Don't we already have that? the Nokia Internet Tablets are pioneers in this field.

I'm proud to be an early adopter of this kind of the devices that the others companies are starting to release this year.

I keep looking for this mistake on which you harp, Milly, and I just can't find it.

Got a GPS coordinate?

You know.. the mistake of putting the dpad on the slide-out keyboard, instead of keeping it on the face of the device :-) That mistake.

And, really, that is a rather annoying piece of the N810 experience. For example, using the RSS reader (not the home applet, the actual application), you can comfortably use the dpad, annoyingly use the stylus, or awkwardly use your fingers and hope you don't hit the wrong small-type RSS feed title, etc. On the N800, it was an easy choice: use the dpad. On the N810, it's annoying, becuase to use the dpad you have to do something stupid (open the keyboard), so no matter which one you choose, it's an annoying experience.

There are two ways to fix it:

1) make the N810 more finger friendly, including all of the included apps (and the RSS app is only finger friendly in ONE way: it seems to be the most responsive of any app when you want to use your fingernail to manipulate the tiny little scroll bar and arrows... in every other respect, it is almost finger hostile).

2) put the dpad back on the face of the device.

IMO: both should be done.

(and, before you suggest "but, the home screen applet RSS reader IS finger friendly", it is also also more annoying than the 3 choices for using the regular rss reader application ... the transparency is annoying an can't be turned off, it doesn't group things by feed, and I don't want my rss reader to be a home applet, I want it to be a regular application that gets launched/minimized/killed like any other application ... so, my response to "you could use the home applet RSS reader" is "I could also shoot myself in the head -- both are equally useful suggestions" )

In all seriousness, and no shilling whatsoever, I don't see the relocation as a mistake at all.

depending on how the mylo is priced... i could just not open my nokia 800 at all... assuming the mylo can take simple notes like the n800 can (since everyone says the thumb board can be mastered and i've seen crazy videos of people blazing on their iphones, i'm sure the latter is possible with the n800)

but the 3 inch screen is such a turn off... but really if the performance is there then...


***** $299?? **** that! the n800 is still a bargin!

http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives...ve_review.html

No - it's not there!

I use the d-pad all the time while browsing long documents, and the lack of a d-pad on the facia and having to keep the keyboard open just so that I can scroll comfortably is not a good design decision. I also use the application menu button a lot - and that too is now on the keyboard. Maybe Nokia Hardware and UI designers were out to get me?

However, *IF* the OS becomes much more finger friendly it may become an acceptable design decision, but that's a big IF and there is no guarantee it will happen (I'll believe it when I see it).

So until then, it's a bad hardware decision because the software is lacking.

Milly. Isn't that a girl's name?