Does the Nokia N800 hold an Advantage over HTC’s latest?
I thoroughly enjoy Michael Connick’s Tweets about the Nokia N800; Michael also blogs and today he put together an extremely thoughtful video of the N800. This video is in the same vein as the recent screencast James did on the HTC Advantage: you’ll get the full experience of using the actual device with a video like this.
Michael’s ultimate point, which is well made, is that the Nokia N800 can be a viable, cheaper alternative to the HTC Advantage. There are pros and cons: you’ve got the cost savings as an immediate plus for the N800, but I’d say the largest con is that it can’t take advantage of the vast Windows Mobile software library. Regardless, this is an outstanding and fresh look at the Nokia N800. Great job, Michael!
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How do you play this video? I get nothing on the Mac and audio only under Vista.
I cant open it either. Tried everything
Took me a while to figure out what I needed to view it; thought it was just me. ;) Hit up this page and grab the TechSmith Screen Capture Codec for Windows: http://www.techsmith.com/download/codecs.asp
Yes, you need the TechSmith codec which is a pain. Shame on TechSmith for creating a standard format like AVI yet requiring a special codec to actually view the video.
Having viewed Michael’s video I must say he’s pointed out all of the things I like about the N800. As he has shown, the n800 is a very capable device and he’s leveraged it very well. One of the biggest advantages of the n800 that he didn’t show (IMHO) is the ability to play YouTube (and other Flash-based) videos where the Advantage cannot play them. They might play a bit choppy on the n800 but at least you can play them.
Re: the Opera browser on the Advantage. One of the most useful things you can do with the browser on the Advantage is tell it how to identify itself to web sites. You can set the Opera browser to present itself as either a Handheld Computer, which gets you mobile versions of the web sites if available, or as a Desktop computer which will cause the website to produce a full version of the site. This means that even though I demonstrated the mobile version of Google Reader I can easily get the full version as Michael demonstrated on the n800. I usually use the mobile version of Google Reader because the full version can be slow to load when I’m on 3G instead of WiFi but it can be done just as demonstrated here on the n800.
Nice video Michael, well done.
TechSmith Camtasia has an option to use standard Codecs. But it is not the default.
I used VLC player to play the video. It’s fast and can play just about every format.