Nokia N810 Internet Tablet with QWERTY is peeped!
Internet Tablet Talk has official images of the soon-to-be-announced Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. We’ll have to wait for the official announcement to see what new mobile goodness is in the handheld, but you can see the most obvious change: the slideout QWERTY keyboard. I also noticed that the old pop-out camera of the N800 was moved to a more integrated spot. One disadvantage is that you can’t rotate the camera around like you used to be able to, but that means one of two things: either Nokia determined that folks didn’t use the device to take pictures or that there’s a second camera on the back. I suspect more of the former is true: the camera was likely used more for video calling based on the relatively low resolution. Also, since the model number is 810, which is incrementally higher than the old number, my guess is that this is really an incrementally changed model, i.e.: no other major feature changes, no WiMAX, etc… More to follow, and ITT has plenty more pics to peep!
Nokia ate HTC! Just kidding.
Wow, that sure looks more compelling with a keypad. Though just yesterday I was thinking the eee PC might be the bedroom email and surfing device. Hmmmm!
I wish they had left the D-pad on the bezel, it’s becoming more like other ultra-portables in that the keyboard must always be exposed for normal usage. Give us the option to not need that I say.
This device look’s sweet. After I bought the iPhone i’m getting more used to using that for quick webbrowsing rather than fireng up my laptop, and somthing like this would come in handy.
It definitely makes sense to have the Dpad there because of the keyboard but I think in-the-car usage will be harder without a stand now.
Of course now it looks like an OQO lite.
@ vm-01: You need to check out those pics. The stand is still there (shown in most of the pics, actually), and I believe it is attached to the keyboard.
If this comes in anywhere close to the n800 street price (around USD$240 these days), it really will shake up the market for devices like the Sony UX and OQO. I know the argument that it doesn’t run Windows like the others, but for most people it does everything they would use Windows for.
I use an OQO Model 02 and love it. I was thinking about it though and very few apps I use are not ones that couldn’ be supported on the n800. The exception being the compilers I use for development work. But that’s something most users besides me probably don’t have to worry much about! And to be able to save almost 1000 bucks- seems like it will do really well.
I like it at this point. It looks a lot cleaner design than the 800 but I want to see if the internal specs have improved. I just might get this now and have something untill the 2nd half of next year when the rest of the MID’s and UMPC’s show their stuff
>>>>but for most people it does everything they would use Windows for.
ROTFLMAO. Obviously you’ve not used one. Ob. Vious. Ly.
As uncov would say: FAIL.
Move along. The big news is the iPhone/iPod Touch SDK. (Which I see has NOt been mentioned here. Rectify that, kids!)
Liquidate your company now, Nokia, while it still has some value, suckahs.
$479…
…makes me want to buy an N800 and upgrade the OS!
You can get a N800 cheap now but that has to be a clearance price and will end when inventory is gone.I don’t expect Nokia to continue offering it. $479 is not bad for list considering the 800 was what? $399? With the N810 you get a keyboard, a GPS and a slightly faster cpu and brighter screen and the overall dimensions are smaller and more pocketable. Plus I see it comes with the new OS2008 from MAEMO. I expect the street price to settle at around $425 in a few weeks and the hold there untill the next model comes out.
I’m seriously considering it.
$480?!!?
Oh, I was wrong. This isn’t Fail.
It’s Fail Plus!
Oh Mike get a life. You were mildly interesting when you had a blog and posted from your experiences and opinions but just comming in and
posting trolling messages is so beneath you.
I’m trying to deciding between a EeePC and a N800/N810.
For $400 I can get a 1GB RAM/8GB Flash EeePC, or for a little more I can get a smaller, slower device which is better built and has GPS.
I have a Dell X50v, and the screen was a little small for browsing for long periods. I’m definately leaning towards the EeePC if I can get my company to by me a Samsung i760 as my next phone.
It’s a tough call as to whether the N810 is worth $ the money. You can point to the Eeepc at around the same price and it is true you get a larger screen and keyboard but is it as portable? Does it have BT and GPS? There is a price premium for making thses things smaller. It depends on what you want. Will the Eeepc fit in my pocket as I walk around ? If that’s what I want then the N810 is the better value at least to me.
The IpodTouch has a smaller screen and is locked down so I can’t add apps plus again no BT or keyboard. If customizability and BT connectivity is what I want then the N810 is still the better deal for me
There is no one answer grasshopper.
Mike Cane has got to be the single unluckiest IT user on the planet. Unfortunately, you really do only have one chance to make a first impression, and Mike was right at the time. The 770 was utter crap when he had it. It took almost two YEARS of hacking to get it to a point where I considered it usable.
My 770 then:
BT DUN is flaky. Apps crash. Sites fail to load. Application load times are abysmal.
Now:
Apps are responsive, BT tends to work, most apps are stable, and Opera is still outdated as hell. Oh, and the on-screen keyboard SUCKS.
The IT design *needed* a built-in keyboard. It *needed* to be more self-reliant. You’ve got me carrying a phone and a MID, don’t expect me to carry a GPS transceiver and a pocket BT keyboard that I have to make up my own xmodmap files for. That’s ri-goddamned-diculous.
The thing is, I can, with a massive chunk of unofficial packages, Get Things Done on the 770. All I’d want out of it by now is a PIM that syncs up with my Blackberry, so that I’m not switching devices. When I’m ass-deep in technical manuals (which take forever to load, as they’re PDFs,) and I need to add an item to a tasklist, I don’t *want* to pull out my BB and enter the item there. I want to add it on the device that is in my hands at the moment. This is exactly the sort of syncing dilemma that JK gripes about, and with good reason.
The N810 platform has brought the hardware where it needs to be, now it just needs to catch up on the software. Give me a good PIM that can either pull events from my phone, or from an online service. Give it a CACHE for that data, since I can’t be online all the time, no matter how hard I try. Give me fast PDF rendering. Give me Flash video. Give me cached maps and GPS. Give me the world in the palm of my hand, because that’s what I need/want.
If Nokia can maintain support for the N800 *and* the N810, they’ll have a winner. I would hate to see the N800 end up as abandonware when all that’s really missing are some OS updates, and maybe some decent software.
The nice thing about the N800/810 is that the new software that looks so good on the 810 is fully transferable to the 800 as the new OS is fully compatible with it and in fact makes the 800 actually run better. I call that good support and a sign that the 800 is not being abadoned to the degree the 770 was. What with open source for the Nokia I feel much better about continuing support for it. I do wonder why there is not a good PIM program for it though.