Xournal for the N800 and N810

Normally the Internet Tablet School refrains from any kind of editorial position, we're usually just trying to help people get the most from their internet tablets. However, the following article is an exception.

There won't be any new articles on the Internet Tablet School for the next couple of weeks, but we'll be back after that with new tutorials. You can of course browse our archive of previous tutorials.

If you're interested, you may want to follow Nokia's announcements at the upcoming CTIA 2008 trade fair from the 1st to 3rd of April. One announcement will probably be the "N810 WiMAX Edition", which is a normal N810 tablet that also has WiMAX compatibility. WiMAX is a very new kind of wireless network which works like Wi-Fi but has a much longer range. However, there aren't very many WiMAX networks yet, so this isn't quite as exciting as it sounds, but things may change in the future of course.

Incidentally, we do know Nokia have some other interesting tablet-related announcements too, but we can't say what they are yet! ;-)

It has been a long, looooong time since the last tutorial on the Internet Tablet School, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel.As the video above explains, a site called All About Maemo has asked me to carry on doing these tutorials for the new generation of Nokia's Maemo-based devices. The first of these new devices, the N900, is the direct successor to the internet tablets. It uses the

Personally I like Nokia products and it doesn’t matter whether it is a cell phone or a tablet. Currently I own Nokia N800 and would like to say a bit about it.

In 2007 Nokia N800 was introduced as a replacement for Nokia 770 version, which was one of the first tablets ever. It had a large variety of new and improved features such as:


processor, which was faster than ever
doubled the amount of RAM
additional improvements such as a built-in camera for video calls
built-in stereo speakers
2 x SD-sized memory card slots
a built-in stand, which I use every day


Nokia N800 started to win buyers attention – it was nice looking with its attractive curvy steel-and-plastic casing. And to round everything up, it was added to N-series and if you are a Nokia fan, you know what difference it makes.




But let’s talk more about improvements of N800 compared to Nokia 770. It had a totally new operating system (Internet Tablet OS 2007), which replaced the 770's OS 2006. But all these improvements didn’t make this tablet perfect. In late 2007, Nokia introduced a new N810. This new tablet was the replacement for the N800.

The new version offered improvements of the operating system, new OS 2008 was released, and a built-in keyboard and GPS receiver, which sounded like an insane thing back then.

The N800 even has some of its own hardware advantages to counter the N810's keyboard and GPS. Nokia N800 has two fully functional memory card slots and the N800 has a built-in FM radio receiver.

All in all, the N800 was one of the first good tablets, which I got to use and I pride myself upon it.

Technical Specifications of Nokia N800 Internet Tablet

Year of Launch: Early 2007

Weight: 206g

Battery Life: 3.5 hours working time and 13 days standby

Wireless: Internet access through Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), internet access through Bluetooth-compatible mobile phones supporting DUN profile

Camera: 352x288 pixels in video mode

Screen: 800x480 pixels, 65 thousand colours

Storage: 256 megabytes built-in, two SDHC memory card slots. SDHC slot compatible with SD, miniSD, microSD, MMC and RS-MMC card sizes.

128 megabytes of RAM

400mhz or 330mhz processor

Supports OS 2007 or OS 2008

What is Skype? What is it used for?

It's been quite a while since the last update on the Internet Tablet School, partly due to personal reasons (a house move and extreme delay in getting an internet connection to the new place), and partly because of work.Instead of the usual tutorial we're now presenting a special editorial feature on what will happen to the internet tablets.The future of Nokia, Maemo and the Internet TabletsIn

Wow, a year already!Believe it or not, it's been one whole year since the first article appeared on the Internet Tablet School.Since then we've seen the launch of OS2008 and the N810, and we have a feeling that something even more exciting in the Nokia tablet world should be appearing by the end of the year.In the last twelve months the Internet Tablet School's text tutorials have been read

By far the biggest online community for Nokia's internet tablets is the famous Internet Tablet Talk site with almost 20,000 registered members. However, it's got rather a technology-heavy atmosphere and most of the forums on ITT assume a lot of prior knowledge about computing in general. Some people may find it slightly intimidating, especially if they don't understand what people are talking

So, you've bought a Nokia N810 or N800 internet tablet and you're now wondering what to do with it. To help you out, here's a brief guide to the first things you should do after getting it home.1. Check everything is in the boxThe box should contain: - The tablet itself (probably with a plastic film across the screen for shipping) - Two styluses (one of them may be inserted in the tablet, the