N800 a companion to the N95?
Last weekend I ordered a N800 as a companion to my N95. Partially as a supplement, partially for it feature overlap. I wanted redundancy in my mobile wifi access to SIP, Skype, MSN. Just for the case my N95 got held hostage again by that company of morons playing Nokia Care Center in my local town.
In other words, time to do some research ;-) In coming posts I hope to report on the N800 from more than one
perspective. The diamond in the rough OS2008 definitely could do with a
opinion. Foremost of all I am interested to see how well it is suited
as a supplement to my N95 (classic). Another question is wether or not
the N800 has the muscle and brains to function as a fullfledged MIMD.
Clearly it is not a UMPC. It's out-of-the-box OS lacks many features
like PIM and more that a fullfledged PC requires. Also it's screen is to small and there are insufficient I/O featurs like USB-ports, tv-out or VGA-out.
Lacking also is support for a mouse. Yet it seems more than capable to be
used as a mobile typewriter when combines with a bluetooth keyboard...
Will it truly impact the time I spend behind my PC at home?
Check the nseries group at vox or my blog for the posts I hope to produce in the coming week.
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i've installed gpe-calendar along with erminig for google calendar syncing on my n800. Also install gpe-contacts, todo, and summary. Summary will add a desktop applet. I'm loving my n800, use it more now in the home than powering the pc up for general web surfing.
Yeah, the PC has now become less important. I installed the claws-mail package. Seems to allow imap folders and fill most of my whishes. No encryption support though.
For PIM am not really interested in calendar stuff, the beep from my phone suffices ;-) Synchronisation of the my mobiles phone book is far more interesting. And I rather not give that to google!