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Win a Nokia N810 Internet Tablet!

jtokash — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:59:42 +0000

TabletBlog is running a contest: The best response to ThoughtFix’s video will win one of Nokia’s new N810 Internet Tablets. Entries are due by 11/16, so HURRY! Reggie, Jonathan, ThoughtFix and I will be judging.

Next Nokia Internet Tablet will have a slide keyboard and GPS. Wow!

jtokash — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:27:41 +0000

ThoughtFix gets the Nokia scoop AGAIN. Nice move!

Connectivity Issues

jtokash — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:38:37 +0000

So. As I noted earlier, the Nokia N800 can’t communicate with the Cingular/Samsung Blackjack because the N800 doesn’t support Bluetooth PAN and the Blackjack doesn’t support Bluetooth DUN. Meanwhile, my Vista laptop also can’t connect to the Blackjack because it doesn’t recognize the Blackjack’s PAN implementation.

6 Questions from ThoughtFix

jtokash — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:08:02 +0000

ThoughtFix’s latest post at TabletBlog is getting a huge response. He asked 6 Nokia Internet Tablet-related questions of his readers and has 21 well thought out responses so far. Excellent!

Portable Rhapsody

jtokash — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:12:29 +0000

Real just released a Rhapsody client for the N800 Internet Tablet from Nokia. I’ve played with it a little and the sound quality is great. The UI is also fast and comfortable. For additional positive comments, check out Jonathan Greene’s take.

Here is some constructive feedback for Real and Nokia:

Nokia: Please support BT PAN for the N800. Then I could listen to Rhapsody’s streaming music away from WIFI using my phone’s connection.
Real: Please support downloading of music on the N800 client so I can seamlessly go from listening to content at my desk to listening to content in my car.
Nokia: Please support BT A2DP so I can listen to Rhapsody on my N800 with my stereo bluetooth headphones.

Software for the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet

jtokash — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 06:01:07 +0000

Places to look for third party N800 applications are popping up everywhere. ThoughtFix has an Editor’s Choice post in the works (nominations here), Jonathan Greene has an all-maemo blog starting up, and Nokia has a new directory for N800 and 770 apps.

The next month or so will also see some official releases. Better support for online video is coming from Nokia, Navicore should be releasing a navigation kit soon and Skype will be launched.

I’m looking forward to more reasons to use my N800 out and about. The Nav bundle, in particular, is going to be handy.

UMPCPortal is live!

jtokash — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:16:25 +0000

Steve just launched UMPCPortal, combining his work from CarryPad.com and the great community site OrigamiPortal that he recently acquired. It’s now a one-stop-shop for UMPC specs and news.

I helped him out a little with the UMPC Comparison section (an upgrade to his already awesome UMPC product info database), so check that out during your visit – and bookmark it! I expect it will be really useful during next week’s CeBit as the UMPC news rolls in. For an example of the great treatment and extensive descriptions his portal gives to individual UMPCs, check out this page about the Samsung Q2.

You can read more about the launch here.

The Nokia N800 can not use some Windows Mobile 5 SmartPhones for Internet Sharing

jtokash — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:55:52 +0000

There. I said it.

Before broadcasting this to the world, I wanted to wait until I had a solution to the problem or a commitment from Nokia or Microsoft to fix this, but I came up empty on all 3 counts. This post on the InternetTabletTalk forums describes the situation in detail, but here’s a brief primer:

Windows Mobile 5.0 AKU 3 (and higher), SmartPhone Edition no longer has Bluetooth DUN functionality. The Cingular BlackJack has this version of WM and presumably all of the newer SmartPhones are in that boat as well.
The Nokia 770 and N800 Internet Tablets currently only support Bluetooth DUN as a way to share a phone’s internet connection.
Windows Mobile 5.0 AKU 3 supports an alternative method for connection sharing: PAN.
There are scripts available for the 770 that force it to share internet connections over PAN. It’s pretty hairy to get those scripts running, but it works.
Those scripts sort of work on the n800, but Opera can’t use the resulting connection for some reason.

Nokia hasn’t announced any plans, yet, to officially support PAN. You can make your voice heard on the matter here.

Microsoft hasn’t announced any plans, yet, to put DUN support back in. You can make your voice heard on the matter here.

ThoughtFix Demos CarMan

jtokash — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:24:26 +0000

ThoughtFix has a great video of CarMan, the new utility by the same team that brought us Canola! CarMan works on the Nokia N800 or 770 and interacts over bluetooth with the ElmScan OBD-II device. OBD-II is a port that is installed in most modern cars so that car owners and service stations can debug their vehicles. CarMan exposes the throttle pressure, speed, engine RPM, fault codes, etc in a slick analog interface.

N800 Assembly and Disassembly Video

jtokash — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:17:45 +0000

Nice job, ThoughtFix!