{"id":38,"date":"2008-01-11T09:15:12","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T22:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noraisin.net\/~jan\/diary\/?p=38"},"modified":"2008-01-11T09:15:12","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T22:15:12","slug":"nokia-n810-hotness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noraisin.net\/diary\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Nokia N810 hotness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, I re-flashed my N800 with OS2008, and today my N810 turned up – I’m glad I elected to work from home today so I could play with it as soon as possible \ud83d\ude42 I was a little worried because I have heard at least 2 people that said their order was cancelled due to problems, one even after the item was reported as shipped! That, plus the fact that the UPS tracking status only reported ‘billing information received’ the entire time.<\/p>\n

I’m impressed with the N810 hardware. For the most part it’s very nice. I like the compactness, and have no problem with the slight weight increase over the N800. The hardware keyboard is cool, although I’m tempted to continue using my external Nokia keyboard because it allows a more normal typing style. There are a couple of hardware differences I’m not a fan of, but I understand why they did things this way. I liked having a standard SD slot rather than the mini-SD that the N810 has. I have several SD cards, but no mini-SD’s. Ditto for the micro-USB connector that’s replaced the more common mini-USB on the N800. The back cover feels a little thin when I remove it, but I don’t expect to be doing that often anyway. Everything else, I love.<\/p>\n

I can see lots of nice changes in the OS2008 release too, although the firmware that came pre-installed had some pretty rough edges. I had to reflash the N810 immediately with the latest firmware, which is not something I’d generally expect from a piece of consumer hardware. With the shipped firmware, I couldn’t install skype from the ‘Install Skype’ option in the main menu (Unable to install Skype because libhildonfm2 >= 1:1.9.49 & libhildonmime0 >= 1.10.1 are missing). In the application manager, it had an update listed for the ‘map’ application, but would not actually allow me to make the update (Unable to install. Software contains updates to pacakges installed from a different source and is likely to harm the system). <\/p>\n

Both problems disappeared after reflashing, but still, it marred the first impression.<\/p>\n

Here are a few observations:<\/p>\n