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Hello

Im glad I found this active community. So nice to see that there are others
interested in these "older" devices. Myself I prefer oldschool smartphones (especially Nokias e-series) with
physical qwerty keys not a hughe touchscreen fan here.

Since long I own a Nokia E90 communicator and just before Christmas I got myself a new in the box E61 phone from 2005

Wanted to try out some kind of tablet device (vintage one) and found pictures of Nokia N800 and fell in love with the looks it also seemed like the perfect companion for my Nokia E61 smartphone.

When I first got my hands on the N800 tablet it felt way better than I expected. It really feels like a high end device, solid like a brick. I was so pleased to see that the silver front and bezel is aluminum/metal because I thought it was made from plastic judging from pics on the net but when I unpacked the device I immediately saw that this was something else... felt the nice cold metal under my fingertips

The unit I got my hands on is used but cosmetically really nice and tidy. Thanks to info I found on this forum I managed to download the Nokia updater software and found a copy of the 2008OS so a few days ago I did a fresh reinstall of the software.

However Im somewhat dissapointed with the browsing experience on the N800. I know this is an old device so it cant be super fast on the internet but I had hopes that it would be similar to the Nokia E90 communicator since the specs are almost identical (E90: 330Mhz cpu, 128mb RAM)

Browsing on the E90 is smoother and yes faster than on the N800 and Im curious to find out the reason for this. Is it because of the larger display thats eating cpu power? the N800 browser also lag quite often while scrolling. I installed opera on N800 but dont think its much better than the original browser. Even the old Nokia E61 handles webpages faster than the N800 in my opinion. When I open the full desktop version of The New York Times in my E61 it loads faster and is easier to control (scrolling up an down etc) than on the N800, how is this possible? after all the N800 is supposed to be a dedicated browsing tool of the same vintage as the Nokia E90 and E61 yet it performs weaker.

Another browsing issue is how the browser constantly reloads the webpages like if I click on a link but want to return to the previous page visited the browser reloads the same page all over again = time consuming. This is not the case when using Opera on E61 and E90 there when you back to a previous page the page loads instantly like its stored in the memory/chase or something. (I have a version 6xxxx of Opera on my Nokia smartphones.)

So now I wonder is there anything I can do to speed up the browsing experience somewhat on the N800? is there only one version of Opera for Maemo available? what version came originally with the older OS for N770? can it still be found?and
are there any other browsers beside Opera available for download that will work on the N800?

dont get me wrong... I really like the N800 if only some improvements could be done to the browsing experience. Its way cooler to pull the N800 out of your pocket when youre at a cafe than any other modern "glass" tablet... (they all look the same nowadays)


Last edited by Edgar G; 2014-03-03 at 19:51.
 

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