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Nokia N800

Monday, December 31st, 2007

After a rather late (or more accurately early) night, I was awoken by a text from my friend asking when my Nokia N800 was arriving. I forewent answering him in favour of more sleep, only to be woken again, but this time by a delivery man with the item in question.

After upgrading it to OS2008 (thanks mrben), I started playing with it properly. So far I’m loving it, but I’ve not done that much with it besides surfing, mail and Skype but then it is an internet tablet.

Things I would like to see:

Being to synchronise contacts with my N95 or Evolution
The webcam being supported by Skype/Flash

Are there any apps I should check out?

On a semi-related note yesterday I debranded my N95 and updated it to the latest firmware.

Oh, and of course this was posted from the N800!

Tags: Linux, n800, n95, nokia, tablet
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N95, Flickr, and you

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

The photo in my previous post was taken with my shiny N95. The N95 is capable of uploading photos to Flickr (and other services), but when I tried to configure it it kept rejecting my credentials. It turns out you need to use a special one (not your normal Flickr/Yahoo! ones) which you can get by visiting their N95 configuration page.

Once I set my credentials accordingly, it all worked fine. I wonder if I’ll start using Flickr more now…

Tags: flickr, n95, nokia, upload
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Hard Copy

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Got back from swimming this morning to find a package left in the garage by the postman. I knew it was too soon to be my N800 (but that didn’t stop me hoping!), so I had no idea what it was. It turned out to be some complimentary copies of my book Managing Software Development with Trac and Subversion.

Although I knew the book was out, it’s not quite real until you’re actually holding a dead tree copy in your hands. Although I still haven’t decided whether I want to write another or not, seeing a real copy is swaying me toward doing it again.

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Late Presents!

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

I’ve deliberated over whether to get iPhone in the past. On Christmas Eve I actually went into an o2 shop with the intention of getting one, but something stopped me – I suspect it was the price and overpriced (and over long) contracts.

Yesterday my phone charger died a horrible and painful death, and although I could just have bought a new charger I instead rang o2 to see about an upgrade. Tomorrow I should have a shiny new Nokia N95 complete with 8GB card to play with.

Of course I’m not satisfied with just one new toy… My friend Mat told about the Nokia N800 being available for £149.99 on play.com before Christmas but I resisted. This morning I checked the site again and they were £129.99, and I just couldn’t resist this time. I know the N810 is out, but I’m not that bothered about a built-in keyboard (right now), I’ve got a GPS in the N95, and there’s just no comparison in price.

It looks like I’ve going to be uber-connected from now on!

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