Customer Reviews
Not Worth the High Price 
2008-05-04
Do yourself a favor and save your hard earned cash.
You can buy a Nokia N800 for only $219 and it is a superior unit.
The processor and the OS are the same on both units. The N800 offers a superior expansion capability since you can use 2 standard SD memory cards. Each card can be up to 32GB each. The N810 cripples you only offering 1 memory expansion slot and it uses the more costly and harder to find non-standard miniSD card.
The keyboard on the N810 is only marginally useful and not at all worth paying an extra $200 for. Also the GPS is worthless being extremely slow to acquire a signal and the maps are worthless unless you pay an extra $139 per year for the service. When you can buy a real GPS unit that works well for $100-200 bucks why would anyone want to mess with this.
So...take a serious look at the N800 which is a marvelous unit. I love mine.
Great for on the go 
2008-05-03
I'm enjoying my new Nokia N810 a lot. It's a lot easier to take with me when I travel and keeps me connected just as my laptop would but now I don't have to look like a typical corporate traveler. I'd recommend this to anyone who wants to keep their carry-on stuff to a minimum and lighten their load!
I've Got the Internet in my Pocket! 2008-04-30
I am absolutely in love with this device! I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because unless you're really geeky, you may not feel the same.
Good:
This tablet is Maemo (Linux flavor) based, and can do just about anything my 15 pound notebook can do. I've replaced my PDA with it (you can keep addresses, calendar, etc.). You can sync with your Google calendar. It will run Skype and can be used as an IP phone easily. Internet radio is great. Plays MP3s and keeps your photo album. Sound quality is pretty good. Screen quality is excellent. I keep track of headlines with the feed reader. Password safe is great for keeping my millions of passwords secure and handy. The browser is OK, and I've used it to pay my bills, etc. I like being able to ssh out of this to any of the servers I maintain.
Bad:
The keyboard is sort of a joke. It will work in a pinch, but I don't IM and such, so I guess I need to practice. I'm going to get a bluetooth portable keyboard soon. Included apps are not so great, but almost everything out there is FREE, so you can customize to you're heart's content. Internet video's kind of choppy, but what do you expect? Tiny memory card is a bit of a pain.
Ugly:
The GPS is slow to acquire a signal, and the software included is lame. In fact, if you need a GPS, don't count on this to be your primary one.
Conclusion:
If you're willing to spend some time configuring it to your personal usage profile, then this gadget is awesome! If you want an out of the box toy that you just operate, maybe this one's not for you.
Great small, relieble device 
2008-04-28
Had this tablet for a wile now, love the fitures, using insted of my laptop half of the time. Its realy good on finding hotspots, and internet warks like a dream.
Now the bad sides:
-slow response on internal GPS, if i realy need navigation FAST i use my Bluetoth GPS adapter...i hope NOKIA can fix this issue with the software update.
-Flesh player is not upgradable(or i did not find how to upgrade it in any normal metter) at first it was fine...but now some websites work fine, thoght most of them are asking to ugrade flash player...so no games, no YOUTOOBE(i use separete application for this) is open dirrectly.
-does not support bluetoth stereo headsets :(
I am trying to exchange my tablet, it was ok till two days ago...the screen went a little crazy, has yellow lines all over the screen. Hope that this is just minor difect and wil by swaped out by seller.
Other than this issues, device is great, totaly worth the money, Operating system is very fast and relieble, has bunch of upps that you can get from upps manager, NO NEED TO GO TO WEBSITE!! Its like PDA++ :)
Good, but not great 2008-04-20
Nice gadget for checking email & internet on the road. GPS a nice addition for traveling. Skype works great, but audio only.
Pros: great screen (crisp, clear, vivid colors), intuitive icons, good battery life, good size (similar to iphone), fast connection to WIFI
Cons: GPS VERY slow to find satellites, additional cost for navigation app, mini-sd instead of SD card (and poorly design slot),USB cable connection to PC does not allow file transfer, not a phone (not a directo competitor to the iphone). Video conferencing not supported
nokia N810 review 2008-04-13
Nokia N810 NSeries Internet Tablet Whether you are at home, in the park or in a coffee shop, with the Nokia N810 you will never be far away. With the ability to check emails, read the latest gossip online or IM to your friends, share your moods on your favorite social sites; call via Skype, or get closer by the Gizmo video chat - with the integrated VGA camera - you'll never be far away from those you want to keep in contact with. Keeping you on the right track You may feel lost without it, but with the Nokia N810, you'll never lose your way. The Nokia N810 has an integrated GPS receiver which allows you to pinpoint your position and find a wide variety of points-of-interests using the pre-loaded maps. Upgrade to Wayfinder's voice-guided navigation for turn-by-turn directions and explore the world on foot or in the car. Never be bored again Whether you're traveling on the trip of a lifetime or on your daily commute to work, the Nokia N810 is the perfect traveling companion. No Wi-Fi connection on your journey? No need, the Nokia N810 offers up to 45 hours of music playback and memory to store up to 7,500 songs on an optional 10GB memory card*. Its large (4.13"), sharp (800x480 resolution) wide screen makes for a magical experience right in the palm of your hand.
Incredible Internet on the move 2008-04-13
I operate various websites, blogs, etc.. and keeping in touch with them on the move has been a problem in the past. However the Nokia N810 has been a major breakthrough for me. I have it linked via Bluetooth to my cell phone and I use the data package I have with my cell to browse the internet from my Nokia N810. When I'm Europe, I'm getting 3G speeds from my mobile provider straight to my N810 via Bluetooth. If I move into a Wifi enabled area I simply switch onto Wifi. I'm always connected. Fantastic. The screen is amazingly clear and the integrated Mozilla based browser works very well, displaying every site I visit perfectly. I use Skype & Gizmo to keep in touch with people across the world using Voip. It truly is a great piece of kit. Not forgetting the very good GPS system that works well and the easy to use keyboard for fast typing. Lots of free open source apps to download as well. Very pleased, well done Nokia.
Nokia N810 2008-04-12
I am extreeemly happy with this device. I travel alot, and it's nice
to have a complete system at the ready while I am traveling.
The Keyboard takes getting use to but is a welcomed addition over my 770
I think some more thought should have gone into applications and command line
manipulations, and especially Printing. But overall I would buy these over
most other Tablet Devices.
iPod Touch Might be a Better Choice 2008-04-10
I bought a Nokia N810 in preference to an iPod Touch because it has an open operating system, runs Skype and has a browser with Flash. In many ways, however, the iPod Touch would have been a better choice.
Battery life initially seemed good, with me having to charge it every second day even though it was on-line all the time, mostly on standby running the GMail notifier every 40 minutes.
To get Skype to work, I had to update the version of OS2008. It is probably just coincidence, but after that I had to charge it more than once a day (even without Skype running). Now I don't run Skype and I put it into off-line mode when I'm not using it, to save power. The battery meter also goes down quite rapidly if I am using the Media Player to play MP3 files (e.g. podcasts) with the display off.
I have converted many of our DVDs for my daughter's iPod Touch and they play back perfectly on the iPod, but very jerkily on the N810. They work better if I convert them again using the Nokia Video Converter, but are still not as smooth as on the iPod.
Most applications, but particularly the browser, need more precise touches than can be achieved with a finger or thumb, meaning that the stylus is essential. This is in stark contrast to the iPod which works perfectly with thumb touches, even if the thumb actually covers multiple links. Also, the two-finger Pinch action on the iPod browser is much simpler than using the Zoom buttons on the top of the N810.
The N810 does have GPS built-in, but that is of limited value because the maps are inadequate. My home is on a road which has been there for eight years, but is not on the supplied map. (It does exist on the Navteq maps in my Garmin GPS.) The roads that are shown near my home seem to be shown slightly to the South of their real position.
Having BlueTooth is useful because the wired headset supplied gets tangled too easily, but I haven't been able to get a stereo headset to work using the A2DP profile, only low quality HSP, so I don't actually know if that is supported.
When typing, a useful list of likely words is shown at the foot of the screen (and these CAN be selected relatively easily with a finger). That's better than typing on the iPod. I haven't yet trained it to recognise my handwriting.
The range of applications set up for easy installation in OS2008 is still limited, but because the OS is open, more should be available in time.
Of course, the iPod Touch isn't perfect either (non-removable battery; fixed memory; no Flash player; occasional need to reset to defaults and set it up again), but I would think it is a better choice than the N810 for most people.
This is Nokia's third Internet Tablet, but they still haven't perfected it.
One thing to note is that the N810 has a miniSD card slot. Amazon suggested a 6GB MicroSDHC Card with Adapter & Micromate USB 2.0 Reader / Writer to accompany it, which I bought, but the one suggested did not come with a miniSD adapter and I had to go out and buy one separately!
small screen 
2008-04-10
hunt and peck on screen keyboard. Gives you a headache. 7" screen better.
