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The Nokia N8×0 phenomenon

I am using the Nokia N810 more and more, and finding myself increasingly charmed by the device, its community, and Nokia itself. I find that uncommon (I am increasingly disenchanted with technologies, and hold very little respect for its ability to do any good), but at the same time somehow enjoyable. Well beyond the point at which I hit the hype curve’s down-slide with other gadgets, I keep finding more reasons to like it. That is strange…

I bought onto the Nokia Tablet concept early on with the 800, then the 810. Originally, it was just compulsive, plus professional interest on the tablet field itself. Like many other people, I have been buying into the convergence category for quite a few years (HP LX, Newton, PDA-Phones, Smart-phones, and now tablets).

So far, I had always avoided questions of return on the money, or ‘worthiness’, because the devices were little more than toys. Sure, PDA suites and synchronization with the PC bring quite a few comforts, specially for the mobile worker, but then again, that’s work, not life. On the other hand, desktops and laptops were nice for personal stuff, but had the same association with work that spoiled the fun altogether.

The Nokia 810 tablet has been quite a revelation, and I realize that the surprise is a combinations of changes in  me (i.e., changes in my habits are making it more worthwhile), the environment where I live (with increasingly ubiquitous wireless access) and a special mix of functionality… I don’t know how it applies to other people, but since I find myself to be quite an average common guy in many aspects (of course, inside well defined demographic and geographical segments — American middle class technology-aware white collar worker and a few more descriptors), I decided to keep exploring this event, with the hope of collecting my thoughts better.

So, I created a new category for this posts, let’s see where they take me.

The exploration map

I won’t list the specs of the device, they are readily available from the Nokia site, but instead follow a more personal path:

* What do I find myself doing with the Nokia N810? Why?

* What specific features/functions of Nokia’s Internet Tablet make those activities enjoyable?

*  What things *don’t* I do with the N810, even when I could? Why? Are there any ‘waiting for’ feature/functions that would get me to use them?

* How could it be improved, from the naggy to the grandiose?

So, I will start to write a few separate postings in each of the stages above, hopefully remembering to come back to this one and cross-link them. Further, I will also use the N810 to contribute some of the posting themselves, and we will see how it goes.

E la nave va…

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