[GRLUG] Nokia N800

[Ron Lauzon]

Alan wrote:
>         Has anybody been looking at the Nokia N800?My Palm TX is dieing a slow and painfull (to me) death and Palm seems to have lost my service repair order. 
>         I'm thinking about replacing the TX with the N800. The only thing 
> holding me back is all of my Palm compatible stuff, like my Fossil 2000 & 2001, the BTDUN on my LG phone and my Blueant X5 headphones, IR keyboard, and the $400 price tag on the N800.
>         The N800 runs Linux and looks like it'd be very cool.
>                 Any thoughts?
>   

I can't speak to the N800 specifically, but based on my experience with 
the Linux handhelds that I've used (the Zaurus models including my 
current SL-C760), Linux-based handhelds make lousy PDAs right now.  Palm 
might change that with their new platform, but that's still in the future.

So it comes down to what you want the N800 for.
Do you want a PDA?
Do you want a tiny, slow, Linux laptop?

If you want a PDA, the N800 is probably not for you.

I had to make a similar decision earlier this year when my TX digitizer 
wore out.  I decided to get a new TX rather than get something different.

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