Nokia N800 review

N800 Nokia picture The N800 Internet Tablet is Nokia's second attempt at a portable device bigger than a phone or handheld but smaller than a laptop, designed primarily for browsing the Internet, receiving email and making video calls over the Web when you're out and about. The first was the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. The N800 Internet Tablet is about a third bigger than a PDA. It's designed to be held sideways, in widescreen format, and its dimensions make it feel like a serious piece of kit. Usefully, there's a flip-out stand at the back, allowing it to be propped up on the desk. The upside of the large size is that there's room for a vast screen. It measures 105 mm corner to corner, and is 90 mm wide by 54 mm tall. Its 65000 colours may not impress tech-heads much, but its 800x480 pixels might. We found it sharp, clear and bright. Nokia N800 Themes Free Nokia Themes download Nokia N800 Software Free Nokia Software download Nokia N800 Games Free Nokia Games download One of the best aspects of the N800 is the hidden camera, designed to use when making video calls over the Internet. Push it in and the camera pops out of the side of the casing. It swivels so you can film yourself or what you're looking at, and when you are done you just push the camera back into its slot. As there's no phone inside, you can only use the N800 for voice calls via the Internet. Both voice and video require you to have an account with either Google Talk or Jabber. No other providers are supported as we write, which is a real shame. In fact, it would be fair to say that if you're not near a Wi-Fi or Bluetooth phone connection, the N800 Internet Tablet isn't that useful as it's so vital for the RSS reader, Internet radio, instant message app, email and Web browsing. The Web browser is lovely. The high-resolution screen makes browsing sites far more rewarding compared to other handhelds and phones, although a small laptop is better still. One thing that really lets the N800 down is its battery life. We asked it to play MP3s from an SD card continuously, forcing the screen to stay on during playback, and we got 5 hours 15 minutes of music. Generally, when using it for a mix of listening to music and Web browsing, we weren't confident of a day's full usage without mains power. It also ran a touch slowly at times. We had a bit of a wait during startup, but more of a concern was our PDF reading test -- not only was a 1MB PDF a little slow to load, we had to wait a couple of seconds every time we moved through the pages of the document and zoomed in and out of the text.

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