I've been a bit frustrated with the usefulness of N800. Its a
great toy,
very cool, and I plan to use it as a development platform. But many things
appear not to work (perhaps I just can't find the documentation for them)
and it seems to take inordinately long to determine what's happening.
Hence, this is my first cut of what I consider core functionality
requirements
for the n800, and their status. Corrections welcome! Documentation
welcome!
WiFi: it connects up flawlessly to two different linksys routers
running wpa2,
but does not connect to a dlink router running wpa2.
Networking: USB networking works only under developer root file system.
But this means to ssh into the device, I've got to modify a
router configuration.
This is not always possible and in general is a PITA.
VNC (or similar): I would like to be able to use the n800 from my
notebook with
its larger display and especially keyboard. (The most
important is the
keyboard---I don't want to buy and carry around a bluetooth
keyboard when I always
have my notebook with me anyway.
Mail: could not get the mailer to connect to dovecot IMAP server
using SSL. Also understand
that it does not support folders.
PIM: could not sync to either gpe or openned hand. My understanding
is that the gpe sync
chain does not handle all the calendar type (repeating
events) and there seem to be
no information on how to use the dbus-based evolution for
opened hand. I'm using
evolution for calendar on my notebook. These applications
work well on the n800,
but without some basic sync facility are too cumbersome to use.
Maemomapper: Very cool application, and I'll be getting a GPS to use
it more effectively.
I'm hoping that we can expand, correct, and maintain this list so that
core functionality works.
Right now, I don't view the n800 as a device which is suitable for
geeks; it is cool for what it can
be, not for what it is. Perhaps Nokia would be willing to provide some
resources to get this stuff
working (bounties?).
Jon
