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Originally Posted by recycledelectron
The Nokia 800 has MUCH more storage capacity (64GB flash on 2 SD cards,) compared to the 810, but lacks the keyboard and a few other toys. I'm thinking about the 800 over the 810.
I think there's a homebrew cable around that lets the Nokia 800/810 master USB...what about the IPOD touch 2G?
My use is for a digital library. I've got a library on USB hard disks and need a way to load the information without carrying around a laptop.
Andy Out!
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I went through a similar dilemma before getting my n800.
The factors that convinced me to get the n800 over te n810 were as follows.
1) Price.- The price of the n800 is half the price of the n810. For the extra price the main thing you get is GPS and a keyboard. Now, i don't have a car, so GPS mapping is not that important, and for when I do need it, i have a bluetooth GPS module that works with my KJam and will also work with my n800.
2) Keyboard - The Keyboad is not that importand for me, especially as I already have a smartphone I use for SMS and Mail which has a QWERTY keyboard. If I did need to type a lot on the device, or used ssh / terminal a lot, the keyboard would have been important. Also, if you only need the keyboard occasional, its still cheaper and more comfortable to get a bluetooth keyboard for those uses. Dynamism is selling the Stoaway Keyboard for around $50 right now.
3) Storage - as you mentioned the n800 has 2 SD cards to the n810 single. while the n810 does have 2Gb soldered in to makeup for the loss, I personally don't like that. I currently have 2 8GB cards on the , The Internal one loaded with Favourite Music, Comics, e-books, etc, stuff I don't need to change that regularly. The External SD is loaded with Videos, New e-books, New Music I want to try out. The two 8Gb cards cost me about £30 (as I got Micro SDHC which I can use in phone's as well) in total, so well worth it.
4) Multimedia - This is pretty much similar on both, but as I mainly wanted it for this and some web browsing, the n800 more or less meets my needs.
Its a great multimedia player with Canola, whose interface is really nice. I've especially become addicted to internet radio, catching up with my favourite radio stations from my school days.
5) PIM - unfortunately Maemo does not have any proper PIM programs, especially ones that can sync to Outlook, so that kind of affected my choice as well. If it had been able to sync to outlook, either directly or over the air, I would have definitely gone for n810, as I do live in outlook at times, and a keyboard is very useful.
6) Ebook - FBReader & Evience are great. I use Evince to read comics in cbz & cbr and use FBReader for everything else. As I tend to Strip DRM from all book I buy as soon as I download them as a matter of principle and convince, There is no problem in using FBreader.
7) USB - The n800 has standard mini USB, as opposed to the n810 special connection (think it is micro Usb but ma not sure), That means I can use any of my cables for transfers etc. without having to carry a special cable for it.
as for the home brew cable that allows you to switch the tablet to Host mode, I believe you can do that by manually running the USB OTG program, if you have the correct adaptor. The only thing the hacked cable does is for the device to switch automaticly.
Oh, and one major advantage over a lot of its competitors. Both use standard Nokia Batteries (different ones in the n800 & n810 however), so you can carry a couple of extra ones (cheap, about $10 for n800, $20 for n810) with you when you travel and swap them out in seconds when one of them runs out. you can get a desktop charger for the batteries so they are pretty easy to keep charged and topped up.
Edit -
links for the Bluetooth Keyboard
http://www.dynamism.com/stowaway_bluetooth.shtml