Nokia N810 thrill

So I have been using this "connected" device for a few months - and I must say I am still as thrilled as when I bought it.

I will not go into a review - as there are quite a few reviews of the Nokia N810 galore- but in short - it lets me stay connected at home and at work and on the road all the time.

Of course at home I use Wifi which is built in. I must say I am excited by the Wifi signals - as good as my laptop in fact. And best is it now gives me the freedom to surf the net (and I can't survive without my daily fix) while relaxing in the patio or listening to streaming music. Its the tool for this - as the N810 comes with a very nice set of inbuilt speakers. Who would imagine such a small device can belt out decent stereo audio over the speakers. In fact nowadays this servers as my main music player.

At work - where I can't access any personal sites (due to the corporate phobia of employees), I easily connect over bluetooth to my Nokia phone (more of that later) using a pretty decent 3G connection - and this is where the Nokia's fine browser (MicroB) comes is so useful. Its very nice browsing capability gives me access to all my webmails and google reader and news sites and all the other tidbits.

Plus as a portable device the new iPhone optimised websites work equally well on this and gives a much better browsing experience (facebook, stock apps, weather apps, iPhickr and mauku comes to mind).

And of course I can chat and video talk with my wife while at office (who doesn't need a break from the drag at work) using the inbuilt google talk client (inconspicously called 'internet call') while also Skype-ing with my family back abroad. And 'Fring' for the Nokia tablets brings in all the other IM clients and Skype and SIP clients together in one nice interface and one application to talk/chat to all.


So much in so small a package ! Thats what keeps impressing me even after these few months.
And what impresses me in all this is not the technology itself, but the fact that it so easily lets me connect to all around me and to get information so easily without being overrun my technical details.

And to top it off, Canola is one of my favorite apps when it saves the day with some beautifully executed music/video player with "the best" interface I have come across any portable device as well as let me listen to my daily dose of podcasts (can't live without NPR's RadioLab to energize my mind and thoughts).

And this does not even go into all the other aspects of the device .. but lets just savor a little at a time here :-)