Finally, my new toy!

Every time I mentioned that I got a new AT&T connection, I was always asked, "So did ya get the iPhone?"
Now being the geek that I am, I was constantly embarrassed into saying no. However, it was for good reason - I didn't think getting a toy when I was barely setting up my new base would be a good financial decision.

About a month ago I finally convinced myself that I could afford to look for something. After a lot of research on various small form factor "laptop-like" devices, including the iPhone, Treo, various Blackberries and the Asus Eee-PC, I came upon the Nokia internet tablets.

What I found really interesting in the n810 (and its preceding 2 generations) was that it runs the Debian based maemo operating system.
After checking the specifications and the blogs, I eventually came up with a list of features that I wanted, and got in the n810:
- WIFI and bluetooth connectivity. WEP, WPA and WPA2 capable.
- email client capable of IMAP: claws
- browser capable of Javascript, AJAX, and flash
- chatting and voice clients: Pidgin, skype
- openVPN
- media players capable of decoding MP3, DIVX and other processor intensive formats: There are multiple apps which do this: Canola, mplayer, etc.
- VNC, rdesktop
- Utilities: PDF reader, FTP client, SSH client and server, calculator, etc.
- Upto 8GB micro SHDC external MMC card capable.

The unit also has a camera, a GPS receiver and a slide out QWERTY keyboard.
Pretty soon I hope to have at least one blog typed out completely from my n810.