N810 Review

Hey guys, this is Matt. Kids, and I'm on with the little review on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet.

Um, first of all, I'm gonna just turn off these lights so you can see in the top right-hand corner of the N810 is a light to tell you whether it's on. Okay, now I'm going to turn back on the light, so that's just that.

So, I'm going to be doing a hardware overview. So, um, shut up. On the um, right side of the N810, we have that light and we have a speaker. Nothing else. On the left side, which is the good side, we have a um, we have a nice little stylus. We also have a headphone jack and a charger connector, and underneath that, if we open up the stand, we have a micro USB.

Um, this does not charge over micro USB, unfortunately. It should be able to. Um, then on the top of the N810, we have a maximize button right there, a power button right there, um, a lock switch right here, and the maximize button is actually over here.

Um, the plus and minus button for zooming in, they are not volumes. Um, on the back, we have, it's pretty simple. It's this plate on the top for the antenna and the thing on the bottom which can be removed to take out the battery, and I'll show you that at the end of the video.

Um, on the bottom, we have a um, a micro SD card or maybe it's mini SD, I forget which one, and um, a switch to open the back. Um, you do need to access those by opening the thingy, the stand.

Um, and on the front plate here, we have a camera and the light sensor. We also have these um, escape key and maximize key. Um, the N810 does have a built-in QWERTY keyboard, so if we go like this, there you go. It automatically unlocks when you slide out the keyboard.

I'll just lock it again with the lock switch. Um, right here on the keyboard, this is a full QWERTY keyboard. The numbers are in the top row of the keyboard. I'll just let you get a good look there. Um, the arrow keys do work for flash games and stuff, and then the menu key.

Um, so that's the keyboard and everything. So now I'll go over the um, software. So I'll put it down just like this.

Okay, so it runs Linux. Um, Maemo 4. Was what it's called. Um, it is touch screen and keyboard. On your home screen, you have applets which um, people write their programs. You can download applets like this app that I downloaded on my right here that lets you have icons.

Something I downloaded, but this is an RSS feed. This is Google, this is the time, and this is a Google search bar. Um, on the top, there's the menu bar, and this has like the file edit menu and stuff for every application.

And then here's the system tray, and applications like um, Pidgin put stuff in the system tray. This is where they go right here. Um, system check right there. I have the brightness of my system tray, the volume, the Wi-Fi connectivity, and the battery.

And if you um, I know one of these lets you shut down. Um, you can shut down, lock the device with a password, etc., by pressing the power button.

Um, so I'll just let you see what's on the screen a little better. So right here, first of all, um, is this bar on the side. This is the applications menu, and there are tons of different types of applications.

My selection, which is your main apps in Internet, communication, utilities, settings, and extras, and them extras is other stuff that you may have installed. Um, on your device, utilities has terminal in it. It has file manager in it, PDF reader, notes, etc.

Um, in my opinion, the terminal was great. Um, unfortunately, this does not come with very many terminal commands um, installed. All the documents, like um, documentation, like man pages, um, and other help and stuff, yet deleted unfortunately.

Um, so that's too bad. Um, not only that, but um, a lot of the terminal commands that are in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin aren't available when you first get it. You have to add them to your path, and I can make a separate video on that if you want to know how to do that.

Um, so that's that. Um, the web browser, whole separate tab. You can have bookmarks. This is a Mozilla-based web browser, so it's a lot like Firefox. I know there's one other browser you can download through the applications manager.

Someone has it in their repository, since this is a full Linux platform...