Nokia’s Latest Pocket Computer (the N810) as Mobile Platform
Erick Schonfeld
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Nokia officially announced its latest pocket computer, the N810. It’s got a full slide-out keyboard, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, the works, and is due out next month for $479. Nokia has more like this coming. It now thinks of the phone as a computer, and its goal is to sell it not just to geeks and early adopters but to the mass audience as well. The N810 is its latest step in that direction. Crunchgear has more photos.
The real news, though, is around Nokia’s efforts to build its Ovi platform. Ovi is a set of APIs that Nokia is using to create mobile Web services for its phones, including the N810. And it wants other developers to do the same. So it is supporting Ovi in its developer tools that 3.5 million mobile-phone programmers are already using today. The race for the mobile 2.0 development platform is on.
WoW! Is nokia working on a iPhone Rival as well
? Lets see wht more its treat us with 
Cheers!
WTF is Mike getting pulled into this ?
I may have butted headed many times on opinion w/TC and Mike, but I have never seen/heard of Mike /Techcrunch endorsing fraud and piracy !! IMHO, thats just lie !!
Anyhoot, Somebody needs to task Rob/Getmobile on his posting !!
Too bad , does not have gsm.
ok I screwed up.. heres the linky
http://www.gottabemobile.com/S.....hGear.aspx
@/pd dude nice try for your 5 minutes. Nice adsense scraper site.
That phone is frickin sweet. I cant wait to see some that come out on decent hispeed networks.
Forget ipune! This kinda stuff is the real thing, running Windows Mobile! Yeah baby!
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
Cool, I was going to buy an iPod touch for the same purpose, but this is better.
Nokia seems to be offering some innovative features lately, starting to get some press away from the iPhone.
..why does the Nokia logo link to an image of the Nokia logo? shouldnt it link to their website..
I’ve seen this happen on a couple of other posts as well…getting rather tiresome.
@shoemoney : Dude, I just pulled that linky from my reader, did not know it was a scraper .. as for my 5 min , don’t need to pimp myself..:)-
Nop, iPhone still wins for a long shot!
Smooth baby smooth!
It’s NOT a phone and it’s NOT a computer.
It’s an Internet Tablet - a product that fits a niche for people who don’t want to take a laptop on trips or who want to have a device that offers a better browsing experience than a tiny mobile. The N800 (the model currently on the market) offers Skype, IM, email, multimedia streaming, video conferencing, VNC, and a slew of other apps either already installed or free from third parties - all for ~$230. It’s also built on Linux, so it’s wide open for development.
The downside to this new version is the only real upgrades are built-in GPS and the slider keyboard. The keyboard is a drawback because the on-screen thumbpad works beautifully. I suspect the slider will be more of a nuisance than a feature. GPS is great, but I wonder how many people are willing to pay $200+ more for it.
The device is surprisingly good. It’s a shame they don’t seem to sell them in retail stores, because I think most people would be impressed enough to buy if they could get their hands on one to try it first…