{"id":585,"date":"2007-01-29T20:24:23","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T01:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2007\/01\/29\/reviews-on-the-nokia-n800\/"},"modified":"2007-01-29T20:24:23","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T01:24:23","slug":"reviews-on-the-nokia-n800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2007\/01\/29\/reviews-on-the-nokia-n800\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews on the Nokia N800"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eugenia of OSNews writes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osnews.com\/story.php\/17052\/Review-The-Nokia-N800-Internet-Tablet\/\">nice lengthy review<\/a> on the Nokia N800.   It has many improvements compared to its predecessor.   Some things they got right:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good Battery life (10-15 hrs standby, 3-5 hours in actual usage)<\/li>\n<li>Faster processor<\/li>\n<li>Great Wi-Fi reception<\/li>\n<li>Some support for VoIP (GoogleTalk, Gizmo?)<\/li>\n<li>Future Skype Support<\/li>\n<li>Opera Web Browser version handles Flash now<\/li>\n<li>Sure support for SD cards &gt;1GB<\/li>\n<li>Reasonable price (~$400 USD)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However there are some flaws:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They broke backwards compatibility with the previous N770 apps<\/li>\n<li>Flash can&#8217;t handle Google Videos or Youtube<\/li>\n<li>Craptastic MPEG-4 support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have to say no Youtube and crappy MPEG-4 support for me is a dealbuster.  There are a gazillion of these small devices that playback video however none of them play back ENOUGH video formats for me to be compelling.    Although the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nseries.com\/products\/n800\/\">N800<\/a> this time comes much closer.  I guess I&#8217;ll wait for the N900 to roll about.<\/p>\n<h4>Other Reviews<\/h4>\n<p>There are other reviews floating on the net&#8230; here&#8217;s a list.  I didn&#8217;t bother reading them as Eugenia&#8217;s was thorough enough to not require sifting through tons of probably useless fanboy lushing in order to find how it stacks up.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.mobileburn.com\/showthread.php?t=20294\">Mobile Burn&#8217;s Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.cnet.com\/Nokia_N800_Internet_Tablet\/4505-3126_7-32309517.html\">CNet&#8217;s Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/review.zdnet.com\/Nokia_N800_Internet_Tablet\/4505-3126_16-32309517.html\">ZDnet Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tags.gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/nokia-n800\/\">Gizmodo&#8217;s N800 News Feed<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugenia of OSNews writes a nice lengthy review on the Nokia N800. It has many improvements compared to its predecessor. Some things they got right: Good Battery life (10-15 hrs standby, 3-5 hours in actual usage) Faster processor Great Wi-Fi reception Some support for VoIP (GoogleTalk, Gizmo?) Future Skype Support Opera Web Browser version handles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1101,1100,260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-linux","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}