A few days ago, I mentioned I bought a new gadget. It is not a PDA, although it looks like one and has some of the same features.
It is the Nokia Internet Tablet. No other shirt-pocket sized device surfs the web as good as this - not even the iPhone. Check out it's "Internet Calling" capability with the built in video camera. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE2fhlh3hJs I can safely say that it is obvious that in 10 years or so, something like this is going to be mainstream. Nokia is already selling a newer version of this gadget, with a few more bells and whistles. And you can order this one on the internet for $ 220. http://www.tigerdirect.com This device is great for downloading suspicious web-sites that you are curious about but don't want to infect your home computer. If you carry a tiny phone, but sometimes want to be able to surf the web away from home, then this is your gadget. It is a great portable photo viewer - maybe one of the best. And I believe you can but up to 8 gb of photos or mpeg type videos. If you already have a new PDA, or an iPhone, then you will not find much interest in this gadget. As it does not make cell phone calls, or come with a lot of applications already built in. However, if you don't have a gadget like this yet, I would recommend it to anyone with the patience to learn how to use it. So far, I am glad I bought it. It should come in handy when I resume my motor-scooter road-trips. It appears to have a strong Wi-Fi antenna, as I can usually surf the web from a distance of the hot-spot. I don't know anything about hot-spots, so feel free to give me some advice if you know anything about them. I can turn the device on, and be reading my Gmail, in about a minute. And the gadget can be left on in standby mode, for a long time, so I don't need to power it off. It comes with 3 good games. I have tested one of the games, "Marbles" on a computer illiterate relative and they immediately became addicted to playing it. The other 2 are a powerful chess game, and a chinese card game which I don't know how to play. For specs on the N800 open the PDF link below: http://static.tigerdirect.com/pdf/NokiaN800Datasheet.pdf There are geeks on the web that have written several progams for this device, as it it uses some kind of basic linux. I haven't figured out how to install any of those programs yet. One of them turns the video camera into a regular camera. I have a Toshiba PDA that has seen little use. Almost everything the N800 does, it does better than the old Toshiba PDA. The Toshiba with PocketPC crashed twice and each time, I lost all the information and programs stored on it. 2 B continued ... David Locklear --------------------------------------------------------------------- Give this to a friend: ot-subscr...@texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: ot-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: ot-h...@texascavers.com
