Bill Manning’s Blog

I have been planning around with the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet for about 12 hours and it a pretty cool device. Yet, it lacks a great many features that would make it a useful device. I will start with the good stuff. Really amazing web browsing using Opera, great battery life and speed, built in RSS reader, built in Camera (ok quality) for Google chat and voice, lite weight and feels good,Bluetooth and WiFi, good mail(solid IMAP) lastly just very solid in OS and feel. Now the bad. No built in PIM (No Calendar, No To-Do, No Notes) by default. You can download GPE PIM and works great. Well, now that you have downloaded a PIM there is now way to sync. This is not a business device. The person who would use this would be for more personal communication and web surfing. This is designed for some who live in a big city (like NYC or London) who has a myriad of WiFi hot spots available and does not want to carry a laptop. If I didn’t need the PIM functionality it would a great system to have but at $400 bucks it is a little steep. It will be going back to Fry’s after I do some product testing. I guess i will stick with my MacBook with the USB270 Wlan modem.
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