Rui CarmoThe N810 is the successor to Nokia’s N800 tablet, now gifted with a keyboard and a more sensibly placed directional pad. Hilariously, most pundits (completely failing to understand how things work) expected it to include WiMax support from the start, and a variant with WiMax was announced… on April 1st 2008.
Resources:
| Date | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 1st | Nokia N810 Internet Tablet WiMAX Edition | I couldn’t help but to laugh out loud to read the press release on that date (especially considering the amount of hype around WiMax) |
| Oct 17 | Nokia N810 Gets Official | Mentions GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 and supported media types |
| Oct 17 | Hands-On | Not very conclusive. Includes a photo gallery. |
| Oct 19 | First Glance: The Nokia N810 Linux Internet Tablet Doesn’t Make Sense | 5 minutes were enough to get the gist of it. |
| Oct 21 | Several videos of pre-production units. Still seems slow. | |
| Nov 24 | (Palm OS) Garnet VM Beta | Odd that the ancient Palm OS works so well on this machine that I wish they stripped out Maemo and ran with it… |