For those of you hounding me for completing it - thanks. I would've put it off until the weekend otherwise ;) I am still doing a little copy-editing and clean-up, buy you can read my Nokia N810 Internet Tablet vs. Asus Eee 701 article over on UltraMobileGeek.
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i got this feeling that somehow we know how this review will turn out... if anyone wants a bias review look no further. :) sorry thoughfix we love you but for some odd reason I know that the n810 will be better in this review even though it might not be in reality.
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My personal bias is that the N810 is better for ME, but not for everyone. There's a good solid market for both devices - my writing was to help consumers figure out which one they are.
And yes - I am biased toward the N800/N810 styling simply because I've become addicted to "Jacket pocket internet."
nice term. "Jacket pocket internet." now when are the comfortable "back pants pocket internet" devices coming out. :)
Nobody seems to mention whether you can use higher than 800x480 on the external VGA output on the EEEPC or not. Does anyone know?
p.s. I'm not actually buying, I'm more than happy with my N800 :)
I really prefer the N810 over the Eee since if I'm going to carry something that won't fit in my pocket, I'd prefer to carry my laptop.
I'm still a bit disappointed about a few things on my N810:
* No turn by turn nav out of the box. Stupid, stupid. They would have sold 10 times more if they's sold it in store Nav System departments.
* Included media player won't play VOB files or full resolution (800x480) AVI files. I want to play DVD's (720x480) on this thing. Instead it only seems to allow 400x240 or such.
* Should have had Java and some graphical Maemo objects right out of the box.
* I'd really like Slingbox video client software for this.
* No PPTP support out of the box to use with rdesktop (a great remote desktop client that will only get better)
* no "fn2" key - to allow supporting F1-F12 keys and more...
* no right hand "fn" key...
* recessed touch screen makes it hard to use finger on app scroll bars.
* In short, Nokia doesn't seem to have put any thought into software and left it up almost entirely to the developer community.
Thoughtfix is however right - this thing is addictive, if only because I'm spending so much time trying to learn how to develop for it. Nonetheless, I love it. I especially like that it can synch to my bluetooth phone for net access when wi-fi isn't available. I prefer it that way over having phone in the device as I prefer not carrying the N810 the time.
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