Nokia N810 Portable Internet Tablet

Do yourself a favor and save your hard earned cash.

You can buy a Nokia N800 for only $219 and it is a superior unit.

The processor and the OS are the same on both units. The N800 offers a superior expansion capability since you can use 2 standard SD memory cards. Each card can be up to 32GB each. The N810 cripples you only offering 1 memory expansion slot and it uses the more costly and harder to find non-standard miniSD card.

The keyboard on the N810 is only marginally useful and not at all worth paying an extra $200 for. Also the GPS is worthless being extremely slow to acquire a signal and the maps are worthless unless you pay an extra $139 per year for the service. When you can buy a real GPS unit that works well for $100-200 bucks why would anyone want to mess with this.

So...take a serious look at the N800 which is a marvelous unit. I love mine.

I'm enjoying my new Nokia N810 a lot. It's a lot easier to take with me when I travel and keeps me connected just as my laptop would but now I don't have to look like a typical corporate traveler. I'd recommend this to anyone who wants to keep their carry-on stuff to a minimum and lighten their load!

I am absolutely in love with this device! I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because unless you're really geeky, you may not feel the same.

Good:
This tablet is Maemo (Linux flavor) based, and can do just about anything my 15 pound notebook can do. I've replaced my PDA with it (you can keep addresses, calendar, etc.). You can sync with your Google calendar. It will run Skype and can be used as an IP phone easily. Internet radio is great. Plays MP3s and keeps your photo album. Sound quality is pretty good. Screen quality is excellent. I keep track of headlines with the feed reader. Password safe is great for keeping my millions of passwords secure and handy. The browser is OK, and I've used it to pay my bills, etc. I like being able to ssh out of this to any of the servers I maintain.

Bad:
The keyboard is sort of a joke. It will work in a pinch, but I don't IM and such, so I guess I need to practice. I'm going to get a bluetooth portable keyboard soon. Included apps are not so great, but almost everything out there is FREE, so you can customize to you're heart's content. Internet video's kind of choppy, but what do you expect? Tiny memory card is a bit of a pain.

Ugly:
The GPS is slow to acquire a signal, and the software included is lame. In fact, if you need a GPS, don't count on this to be your primary one.

Conclusion:
If you're willing to spend some time configuring it to your personal usage profile, then this gadget is awesome! If you want an out of the box toy that you just operate, maybe this one's not for you.

Had this tablet for a wile now, love the fitures, using insted of my laptop half of the time. Its realy good on finding hotspots, and internet warks like a dream.
Now the bad sides:
-slow response on internal GPS, if i realy need navigation FAST i use my Bluetoth GPS adapter...i hope NOKIA can fix this issue with the software update.
-Flesh player is not upgradable(or i did not find how to upgrade it in any normal metter) at first it was fine...but now some websites work fine, thoght most of them are asking to ugrade flash player...so no games, no YOUTOOBE(i use separete application for this) is open dirrectly.
-does not support bluetoth stereo headsets :(
I am trying to exchange my tablet, it was ok till two days ago...the screen went a little crazy, has yellow lines all over the screen. Hope that this is just minor difect and wil by swaped out by seller.

Other than this issues, device is great, totaly worth the money, Operating system is very fast and relieble, has bunch of upps that you can get from upps manager, NO NEED TO GO TO WEBSITE!! Its like PDA++ :)

Nice gadget for checking email & internet on the road. GPS a nice addition for traveling. Skype works great, but audio only.
Pros: great screen (crisp, clear, vivid colors), intuitive icons, good battery life, good size (similar to iphone), fast connection to WIFI
Cons: GPS VERY slow to find satellites, additional cost for navigation app, mini-sd instead of SD card (and poorly design slot),USB cable connection to PC does not allow file transfer, not a phone (not a directo competitor to the iphone). Video conferencing not supported