Nokia N810 Internet Tablet Review

<<<... I mentioned earlier the ability to play Flash videos like you find on YouTube, and this can be a lot of fun. What I find more useful is the N810's ability to play Real Video and Real Audio, as there's an endless supply of good content in these formats online. Nokia touts this model's ability to play Windows Media Audio and Video (WMA and WMV), but this doesn't work for me. Sites where I can play the videos on a Pocket PC give me error messages on the N810. Not the end of the world, but still disappointing. Of course, this handheld can do multimedia outside of the browser. Its stand-alone media player handles audio and video in a variety of formats. Not QuickTime or Windows Media, but many of the other top standards, like MP3 and MP4. In addition, the media player is specifically set up to make it easy for you to listen to Internet radio stations. This application is a touch "bare bones" for my taste -- there's no easy way to skip forward or back a few seconds in a video, for example -- but it works. And there are third-party options either available now, or coming soon.

Storage-a-Rama

The Nokia N810 has multiple different types of memory, but it all adds up to what I consider a good amount. First off, there's 128 MB of RAM for holding currently running programs. Then there's 256 MB of ROM for storing some files but mostly this should be reserved for holding applications that you install on the device. There's also 2 GB of storage that acts like a built-in memory card. You can use this for files of all kinds, from multimedia to documents. In addition, you can convert up to 128 MB of this into virtual RAM, which I recommend you do. More space for running applications is always good. more>>>