George Wright's Blog: Nokia N810

Nokia N810

gwright@kde.org (George Wright) — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:35:00 +0000

Now that they’ve released the Nokia N810 in the UK, I ordered one yesterday and it arrived this morning; hurrah for prompt delivery!

My initial impressions are mixed.

Good things:

the screen is fantastic
it came with maps for the GPS for free
it has a keyboard
it’s responsive
it’s nice and small

Not so good things:

the battery cover is incredibly hard to take off
the battery doesn’t clip in - it just sits there and is held in place by the cover
the GPS takes ages to lock
the keyboard feels a bit mushy, and the top row is hard to type on

Anyway, I’ve now installed Maemo Mapper which works like a charm (a bit of hackery is needed to get the internal GPS to work with it though), and ssh from xterm is very usable with the new keyboard. Haven’t installed our WebKit stuff on it yet, but the Gecko-based MicroB engine isn’t too bad.

Overall a very nice piece of kit, and I’m very pleased with it.

"Nokia N810" by Denny

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:16:00 +0000

I’ve left my GPS hunting for 10 minutes or so and no luck… how long does it take to get a lock? It’s making my TomTom look reliable. :(

If I look at the GPS details when I’m trying to get a lock, I usually see ‘satellites found - 1, satellites used - 0’, or something like that.

Is it just the first lock that takes this long, or is it this bad every single time you fire up the GPS?

"Nokia N810" by George Wright

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:36:25 +0000

It’s been pulled for unknown reasons. I no longer work at Collabora so I can’t say for sure.

"Nokia N810" by dan

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:16:16 +0000

the link to webkit-eal is broken. where’s the code?

"Nokia N810" by George Wright

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:04:42 +0000

Alex: Start up Maemo Mapper, tell it to look for a Bluetooth GPS then fire up Nokia Maps and it’ll turn on the GPS and Maemo Mapper will be able to find it.

rossi: Same as it was in my last blog post. However, I’m excited about Seb James’ work as he’s got a working backend and I’ve written a UI which should just need some (fairly trivial) hooking up to the backend. He’s also getting an N810.

"Nokia N810" by rossi

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:22:35 +0000

How is the status of the nx client on maemo? ;)

"Nokia N810" by Alex

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:04:31 +0000

Could you elaborate a bit on the “bit of hackery” necessary to get the GPS working? I’ve failed so far.