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Nokia N810 Silver Review - Conclusion

Nokia N810 Silver
Published on 4/21/2008
By: Noah Kravitz, Senior Editor, Consumer Products and Services
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Editor Rating: 4.3
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Nokia’s N810 Internet Tablet is an interesting device that’s more about the future than the present - though it’s quite impressive in its current form.  Looking strictly at its hardware, N810 offers a Linux-based computer with wireless connectivity in an amazingly small, attractive package.  Though its responsiveness could stand a bit of tweaking, the combination of a full-WVGA touch display and hardware QWERTY keyboard offer access to everything from mobile blogging to videoconferencing and streaming media to on-the-go Linux development.  It’s a potent package that’s dressed up quite nicely; N810 isn’t going to look out of place when you slip it from the breast pocket of your Armani jacket.

Nokia N810 Internet Tablet
travis mayes
Friday, June 27, 2008did you talk to sprint about the instinct browser an email that sucks, whats up with that
MARK HEBERT
Friday, June 27, 2008hi...can email attachements be viewed on the Instinct? how about the Iphone? thx.
robert mendicino
Friday, June 27, 2008love your site, great to learn more about everything, thanks for being there. i found you by accident.
Adam Wahab
Friday, June 27, 2008You can do custom ring tones thru 3rd party services such as Myxer.com. There are already Instinct Support Forum sites that have sprouted up prior to the Instinct's release ie: instinct-samsung.com. You can customize the wallpaper on the clock page while the phone is locked. Just a few added notes...
alfredo` lopez
Friday, June 27, 2008hey i like ur video it showed me alot and now i want to buy it but the only thing that i did see is if that how many channels dose the instict sprint tv have ?? if u could send me the answer or but a video on it i will appriciate it
MARK HEBERT
Friday, June 27, 2008Noah-great info and reviews. Q: Iphone and Instinct-can you view emial attachements on both-such as word docs or pdfs? thx
krystal shelby
Monday, June 16, 2008how much is this phone
katrina harris
Tuesday, May 13, 2008HOW MUCH IS THIS PHONE !! IS IT WITHCENTENNIAL

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