Nokia N800

[moreymach]

Anyone else got one of these ?

I bought one last weekend having been seduced the looks and idea of it but now struggling to find any real use for it.. .. The web browsing is fine as is the email but there doesnt seem to be much software about yet and the webcam feature only seems to work with other N800s or to pc's via a rather crummy beta program from Nokia.

Any thoughts ? Is it just early days or have I bought yet another technological paper weight?

[J_S_G]

Nice piece of engineering, etc. and I've debated over picking one up. Current thoughts:
- If you do a lot of very mobile browsing, then I'd say it's a great thing to have
- If they bring out an RDP client for it (been scouring the net to see if the Java ones, etc. can be made to run on it) then you can have an entire PC running there
- Stick in enough memory and you've got a decent media player
- Turning it into some kind of home remote-control would be quite natty (controlling my Squeezebox, etc)

Personally, I'm thinking a Samsung i600 might be a better geek-toy at the moment, though...

[moreymach]

J_S_G said:

- Turning it into some kind of home remote-control would be quite natty (controlling my Squeezebox, etc)

...

Got mine connected to Orb today and it works quite well. The video playback is a bit choppy but the audio is great. Maybe it is worth having after all

[m12_nathan]

There is a specific nokia 770 n800 skin built in to slim server to make it into a cool remote control.

http://server.ip.address:9000/Nokia77

More info here: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi