Nokia 810 Internet Tablet

Panda Bear Bear is every excited today cos Nokia have recently just introduced the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. To me, this signified a new phase in portable Internet communication OR put it simply, I don't need to bring my laptop whenever I go to Starbucks :-)

Before I continue, let me just emphasize the following facts:

1. It is the only NSeries mobile device not to use the Symbian OS. It uses the Linux operating system and an open source platform called Maemo
2. Although it bears the Nokia Nseries designation, it is NOT a PHONE but an Internet appliance
3. Since it is not a phone, it won't have cellular radio connectivity features such as 3G/HSDPA/EDGE/GPRS/WiMAX (the WiMAX version will be coming next year) but would instead rely on Wi-Fi 802.11b/g for data packet connectivity
4. But it do support the Bluetooth v.2.0 DUN profile (Dial-Up Networking) of which you can pair up with your 3G/HSDPA/EDGE/GPRS/WiMAX phone to suft the Internet if you can't find any hotspot [talk about working around limitation ;-) .... Ha ha ha!]
5. What? No calling features? No worries, it support SIP communication for VOIP calls and supports both Skype (comes installed by default) and Gizmo Project (my favourite and it support Video Calling)
6. Remember how Symbian OS mobile phones always seems to have this Out of Memory error whenever surfing the web, well, the Nokia N810 comes with a 128MB DDR RAM and 256MB Flash ROM + support up to 8GB SDHC cards
7. Built-in GPS
8. It weighs 226g
9. This device cost approx. USD$ 479 (which is approx. MYR$ 1615)
   

I guess the trump card for this device will be Web 2.0. Nokia is also making a big deal out of how the Nokia N810 is very Web 2.0-friendly. The included browser is based on Mozilla technology with Adobe Flash 9 plug-in, and can be used to access all your favorite Web 2.0 sites like Google Docs, Flickr, Facebook, and so forth. This also coincides very nicely with Nokia's own Web portal, Ovi, which provides a "gateway" to these services plus Nokia's own Music Store.

A built-in media player supports 3GP, AVI, WMV, MP4, H263, H.264, MPEG-1, MPEG-4 and RV (RealVideo) video formats, as well as MP3, WMA, AAC, AMR, AWB, M4A, MP2, RA (RealAudio) and WAV audio formats. The media player provides direct access to shared media over Universal Plug and Play (UPnP). Nokia claims a music playback time of 10 hours; continuous usage (display on, wireless LAN active) of up to 4 hours; always online time of up to 5 days; and standby time of up to 14 days.

Sporting a 65K colors 4.1" display with a resolution of 800 by 480 pixels, the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet is expected to start shipping mid November

Overall, I felt that the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet would indeed be a very good tool for bloggers. I can't wait to get my bear bear paws on one!