Nokia N800 specs

Alright, we had some unboxing porn of the new Nokia N800 for ya yesterday, but what we didn't post up were its specs. Fortunately Carrypad has all the gory details on the new Internet Tablet, which sports a 4.1-inch, 800x480 pixel touch screen, a 320MHz processor, 128MB of RAM, 256MB of Flash ROM, dual SD memory card slots, 802.11b/g WiFi, a built-in camera (they don't specify resolution), and Bluetooth 2.0. Apparently CompUSA, which carried the original Nokia 770, already has 'em for sale in some stores.

[Jonathan Zencovich @ Jan 6th 2007 9:07PM]

How can CompUSA be already carrying these when there's been no official product launch or announcement?

Having it is one thing, but apparently selling them is another! I'm going to CompUSA first thing tomorrow!

--Jon Z

[mark @ Jan 7th 2007 10:25AM]

@Jonathan Zencovich
>How can CompUSA be already carrying these when
>there's been no official product launch or announcement?

From the people that have bought them (look through the previous engadget for links to other blogs) it sounds like CompUSA doesn't really understand that they may not be ABLE to sell them. People have learned in the last 24hrs that CompUSA has them (based on the CompUSA price tag on the "unboxing" pics going around) so they're going in and asking for them. A CompUSA employee looks it up in their store database, finds them, digs them out of the back. The register rings them up as $399 and out the door folks go.

Basically... It's the classic case of "the 'net rawks!".

[David Smoot @ Jan 6th 2007 9:07PM]

Price?
And does it use the same battery?
Does it finally trickle charge off of USB?
David

[garang @ Jan 6th 2007 9:09PM]

interesting ill wait til some better one comes up

[theflew @ Jan 6th 2007 9:22PM]

$399

[Eric @ Jan 6th 2007 9:30PM]

Hrmmm, It doesn't support the ablity to hold enough data for me. Call me when it has a 30gb hard drive though. Looks nifty.



http://techtone.blogspot.com/

[Aaron @ Jan 6th 2007 9:36PM]

What's your #?

[Jonathan Zencovich @ Jan 6th 2007 9:41PM]

Well you can get 4 Gigs in (dual SD, 2 gigs limit). However, I suspect that it would be possible (via software hack) to get it to work with two 8 GB SDHC cards. Wouldn't be easy, but I'm sure the possibility is there. And the two SDHC cards would only ring you for $200, and you would have 16 Gigs of data. Not too shabby....

--Jon Z

[Eric @ Jan 6th 2007 9:46PM]

Yea, but that's alot of money for 8 gigs, and not alot of storage, now if I could hook it up to a Zune or iPod, maybe that might be worth it. But then whats the point?

http://techtone.blogspot.com/

[Jonathan Zencovich @ Jan 6th 2007 10:10PM]

8 Gig SDHC is only a $100 a piece. Not bad considering what flash drives go for at that capacity.

Doubling up and having 16 GBs of memory on an Internet Tablet? You can save LOTS of videos, music, media...

That's what I plan to do when I get one. Although since SDHC is not officially supported (hell if ever, I doubt such a software hack would ever come out, it would have to be homebrew), I'm going to be limited to two 2GB SD cards == 4 GBs. Cost me $40 total for both 2 gig cards. 4 Gigs is still not bad...

--Jon Z

[Eric @ Jan 6th 2007 10:18PM]

Yea, that's not bad for flash, thats actually pretty good.

Guess the device just isn't what I need. But it looks pretty sweet.


http://techtone.blogspot.com/

[Kamokazi @ Jan 6th 2007 10:52PM]

I worked at CompUSA when the 770 came out, and we had those waaay before official product announcements, was very odd, we usually get stuff a week to months after it is announced.

I was very impressed by the 770....on many occasions I considered ditching my Dell Axim x50v for one. With the nice spec boost on the 800, and the addition of SD, I think I just might.

The screen is sharp, the UI looks good and is responsive, and the Opera browser works very well. Nokia added several enhancements, and since it is Linux-based, the Linux geeks went nuts and made tons of nice apps for it (several of which Nokia used in a major firmware update). It can do video and MP3, the battery life was good, as well as the design.

[Kenban @ Jan 6th 2007 10:57PM]

Even with the faster processor I wonder how well its going to be able to play video. Although about the only thing I use my Dell Axim x50v for now is to surf the net and I think this would be a perfect replacement.

Why do people keep on saying to use two 2GB SD cards when 4GB cards are quite cheap? I can get a 4GB SD card for about $50 now and should be able to find them even cheaper if I am willing to use mail-in rebates or wait for a sale.

[Jonathan Zencovich @ Jan 6th 2007 11:42PM]

Kenbam, for some reason the N800 only allows cards up to 2 GBs in size. Addressing issue I guess. Otherwise I would obviously use 4 Gigs.

--Jon Z

[Rebecca @ Jan 6th 2007 11:12PM]

You guys really missed on the woot a few nights ago when they had the OQO +1 for 799. That's the closest to the ideal size mobile computer with a 30 gb hard drive.
But this nokia really looks sweet. i just saw it at the local Compusa.

http://www.madeforzune.com

[Shell @ Jan 6th 2007 11:31PM]

Every time I see this I drool. If only it was affordable. =(

(P.S. Check out my blog at http://blog.dotshell.net)

[slip @ Jan 6th 2007 11:46PM]

I see that Engadget is now even sporting ads for the N800 --- but when you click on them, the N-Series page they link to doesn't even have the N800 on it yet!! What a waste of an ad.

Tomorrow, tomorrow, you're only a day away. Or two.

[George Moore @ Jan 7th 2007 2:35AM]

Does anyone know the battery life? That was one of my worries.

[deepak @ Jan 7th 2007 10:39AM]

heres a video of a working N800...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpGMuBp99sY

[robberknight @ Jan 9th 2007 7:21PM]

Thanks for posting the vid. Measuring in your vid it takes about 40 secs until the system is up and running, correct?

Is there a standby or suspend-to-ram feature with a wakeup time < 5 sec?

[Deckard @ Jan 7th 2007 11:16AM]

A recent post on Internet Tablet Talk is reporting that 4GB SD cards work fine in the N800 - no one has an 8GB card to test, yet. I wonder if it's possible to hack the filesystem so that it spans across both SD cards (kind of like RAID1)?! :)

N800 in action video is here: http://blog.tokash.org/2007/01/07/nokia-n800-video-the-first-of-many

[Guy Kwan @ Jan 7th 2007 1:35PM]

I saw them at the new Nokia Store at 57 St & 5 Ave in NYC. There's a big display with them so I messing around with one and came away somewhat impressed. It was selling for something like $360.

[Joey @ Jan 11th 2007 7:05PM]

this thing looks pretty awsome, my question is thought can you like watch youtube and google videos and such on it

[Sirocco @ Jan 13th 2007 12:02AM]

Sure, this is cute, but I can't help but think that as soon as I start using this, I'll start to complain that it can't do this or that, and that it would make more sense just to get one of those "ultra mobile" laptops that cost a few hundred more bucks and that can do...EVERYTHING!

[deepak @ Feb 1st 2007 1:11PM]

heres a video of a working n800

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpGMuBp99sY